Wellbeing

Diaries

This term our Mentor Group time is focused on building good habits. As mentioned last term in our newsletter, whilst the Hub is a fantastic resource, the use of the School Diary builds important executive functioning skills and improves wellbeing when students feel organised and when they can visually see tasks being checked off. Mentors will be checking diaries every week and parents are encouraged to support diary use at home.

Student Support Suite

The Student Support Suite (SSS) is a valuable resource in supporting our students when at their most vulnerable. To ensure the space is being used appropriately and to maximise our Counselling and Psychological Service team’s capacity to support students, we have reminded students this week of the process to access the SSS. View or download the posters below:

Respectful Relationships Education

The School’s partnership with ISNSW continues in Semester 2, with the RRE staff being involved in multiple face-to-face and virtual roundtables designed to continue planning and making our RRE approach coherent for staff, students and families. Kinross Wolaroi is committed to being part of addressing gender-based violence, and part of that commitment is building knowledge and awareness, whilst providing our stakeholders with resource and skills to help. Staff, students and families can begin being involved by visiting out RRE Hub pages: The Hub - Respectful Relationships

Visible Wellbeing

Our Compass Design Team enjoyed participating in an appreciative inquiry with Visible Wellbeing’s Melinda Phillips in Week 3 to continue refining and reviewing not only the taught wellbeing Compass program but to identify and plan other areas to consolidate the wonderful work already done in the wellbeing space at our school. 

LOVE – “Living Our Values Every Day”

In Semester 2 our student leaders have taken the initiative to make wellbeing visible by introducing weekly challenges to our students delivered at assembly and on the Hub. Each week the leaders have laid down a challenge related to our School values and character strengths. This student-focused initiative is designed to bring the Kinross Wolaroi values to life through simple, visible, and practical actions that students can demonstrate each day. 

The focus at the start of Term 3 has been:

Week 1: Respect - “I arrive to every class on time”. Character strength – Sef regulation

Week 2: Respect - “I put devices away when a teacher or peer is speaking”. Character strength – Perspective

Week 3: Respect - “I greet staff and peers politely each day”. Character strength – Social Intelligence

Our other values of inclusiveness, commitment, courage and resilience will be themes later in the semester. Well done to our leaders for starting this simple initiative to help build culture and wellbeing at the School.

Corrections Corner

Our last newsletter listed the scope and sequence for Year 7 to 12 Compass programs in Semester 2. The Year 11 list had some mistakes! Please see below the correct Year 11 program for this semester: