Positive Education

Today we celebrate as a nation ‘R U OK Day’.  A day that is synonymous with checking in with those around us and making sure that they are okay, and if not, how can we help.  If ever there was a year for people to start to check in with others it most certainly is this year.  

In the past we as a College have gone ‘all out’ with balloons and ribbons to highlight the day.  This year our Wellbeing Leaders, Eva Wells and Ruby Goward decided to focus on having it more low key and promote the idea that we shouldn't leave it to one day to ask if someone is okay.  It should just be part of our everyday conversations - today, tomorrow and always.  

Eva and Ruby created their own Google Slides, accessing resources from the ‘RUOK? Day’ website, as well as highlighting their personal stories.  The slides also incorporated ways of checking in and links to resources for students.  These slides were sent to all Clan teachers who will unpack these slides tomorrow during Clan and the following week. It will allow them to have a conversation with their students and encourage them to look after one another, speak up if they need to, and make each day a focus on asking people “Are you okay?” 

Primary staff were encouraged to use resources sent to them to explore signs that someone might not be okay, the language around how to check in and to emphasise the importance of kindness, connections and belonging.  They too were lucky enough to have the Wellbeing Leaders put a presentation together to help support their conversations.

‘A sense of belonging in school goes beyond the football teams and matching uniforms, it happens in the day to day interactions that make a student feel either valued or a drain in the system’

Allen, Boyle and Roffey, 2019.

Peaceful Kids - Peaceful Parents

Peaceful Kids is offering online parental training sessions, with the dates to be announced soon.  

If any parents are interested in participating in one of the workshops offered around meditation, mindfulness and reducing stress, please click on the button below.