Wellbeing Zone

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Welcome to the Wellbeing Zone. When you enter the zone, you will find a wealth of information about all the things happening in the Wellbeing space at Sunshine Heights PS as well as strategies, articles, book recommendations and events that will help build our dream and culture of Wellbeing throughout our school community, inside and outside of school, so that we can sail together through a universe of possibilities with all the emotional and social skills we need to thrive.

Good Shepherd - Tuning into Teens Program 

Good Shepherd will be running Tuning in Teens starting Thursday 8th August 2024 and running until Thursday 12th September 2024, at the Brimbank Aquatic and Wellness Centre.

Please find attached our flyer along with an information sheet around what the program entails.

Parents/Carers can register using the QR code on the flyer or contacting the Good Shepherd office directly, on 8312 8800, and speaking to Lynda or Rachel. 

A light morning tea will be provided. 

Mackillop Family Services On-Demand Webinar: Overcoming Separation Anxiety

Last term, we were due to have Mackillop Family Services run an onsite workshop to support parents in making school drop offs easier. Unfortunately, due to small numbers, Mackillop had to postpone the delivery of the onsite workshop. 

However, Mackillop Family Services, have put together this great on-demand, one-hour video called Overcoming Separation Anxiety. The video is suitable for parents/carers of children six months to 10 years over. This video will support parents who are struggling with day care drop off or finding mornings to be filled with tears and long goodbyes to head off to school. This webinar help explore the anticipated stage of separation anxiety and helpful things you can do to better prepare your little one for times away from you.

The video can be accessed here.

Mackillop Family Services offer a range of supportive videos for parents, which can be accessed here. 

Happy Space Allied Health Speech Pathology Program

Our partnership with Happy Space Allied Health has been so amazing and having Liv onsite to support our students (and staff) has been so insightful and useful. 

Liv works at our school every Thursday and is now at capacity with the number of students she can see. But... in exciting news... she is keen to increase her days to 2 days every week, so if your child has NDIS and you are looking for a speech pathologist to support them with their communication and social goals and would love your child to attend onsite speech pathology sessions, please reach out to me to let me know what support your child needs and I can connect you with Liv! 

Headspace Parent & Carer Webinars on Primary School to High School Transition

Finishing primary school and transitioning to high school can be a big change for both young people and their families. Headspace are running some parent and carer webinars to help families best support their child in the transition. 

This session will cover:

• Mental health and wellbeing in adolescence
• How to have conversations with young people about their mental health and wellbeing
• Noticing signs that a young person might be going through a tough time and struggling with their transition out of school
• Identifying strategies to connect and communicate with young people
• Increasing knowledge about how to support them during this transition period and where to access professional support .

Where: Online via Zoom.

What time will the webinar be?

There are two workshop dates to choose from. These sessions are being offered to families across the country, so please check the time zone for your state or territory before registering.

Session 1: Tuesday 3 September, 2024:

VIC/ TAS/ NSW/ACT/QLD: 6 - 7PM

NT/SA: 5.30pm - 6.30PM

WA: 4 - 5PM

Session 2: Thursday 5 September, 2024:

VIC/ TAS/ NSW/ACT/QLD: 8 - 9PM

NT/SA: 7.30pm - 8.30PM

WA: 6 - 7PM

To register for a webinar, please visit Headspace's Eventbrite event: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/cc/pc-webinar-transition-from-primary-to-secondary-3277579

Glasses for Kids Program 

We are very excited to announce that Sunshine Heights PS will be getting the Glasses for Kids program in Term 4. This program aims to remove vision impairment as a potential barrier to educational engagement. 

The program will be available for all students in Prep to Year 3 and will take place in Term 4, Week 7 from Tuesday 19th to Thursday 21st November 2024. 

There is no cost for students to participate in the program and receive glasses if needed. Students who require glasses will be able to choose from a range of frames. 

All students who return their consent form and optometrist questionnaire will be screened. Any students who require further testing will have this done on the day. 

Consent forms and optometrist questionnaires will be sent home in the coming weeks! 

More information on the program can be found here - https://stateschoolsrelief.org.au/programs/glasses-for-kids-program/ 

New Telephone Translation Service

We’re excited to announce our new phone translation services to help non-English speaking and EAL families. If you need translation, you can follow these steps: 

Step 1: Call (03) 7039 9021

Step 2: Choose your language:

• For Mandarin, press 1
• For Cantonese, press 2
• For Vietnamese, press 3
• For Arabic, press 4
• For Persian, press 5
• For all other languages, press 6

Step 3: You will be linked with a translator and connected to the school.

Happy Space Allied Health School Holiday Programs

Are you looking for some language-based fun this school holidays? 

Our friends over at Happy Space Allied Health are running some speech-pathology based literacy programs - Story Champs Intensive & Literacy Intensives - in the first week of the holidays. 

Cost is 3 workshops for $50. 

They are also offering low-cost, discounted language assessments and reports!

Check out the attached flyers for further information on the programs, costs and bookings!