Wellbeing News 

The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)

This term all students across P-6 have focused on Topic 2: Personal Strengths. During this unit children and young people need a vocabulary to help them recognise and understand strengths and positive qualities in themselves and others. This topic provides learning activities to build this vocabulary and to use it when discussing personal, social and ethical challenges. Research in the field of positive psychology emphasises the importance of identifying and using individual strengths. Social and emotional learning programs that use strength-based approaches promote student wellbeing, positive behaviour and academic achievement. Focusing on strengths helps to improve students' wellbeing, behaviour and academic achievement.  We recognise that students need to be able to talk about their strengths and positive qualities in order to understand them. 

Students' goals have been to: 

• Talk about strengths and positive qualities
• recognise their own strengths and positive qualities
• recognise other people's strengths and positive qualities
• focus on strengths when discussing personal, social and ethical challenges.

Positive Behaviour for Learning -PBL 

This week each community will be continuing to practice the following SMASH expectation.  

This term we are focusing on ‘Show Respect’. The settings in our school are Classroom Spaces, Transition Spaces, Outdoor Spaces, Community Spaces and Toilets. 

So far our St Michaels community has focused on:

• Show Respect in classroom spaces by showing whole-body listening.
• Show Respect in all spaces by speaking appropriately to others.
• Show Respect in all spaces by using your manners.
• Show Respect in all spaces by keeping to the left when passing pedestrians.
• Show Respect in classroom spaces by raising your hand and waiting patiently. 
• Show Respect in toilets by respecting others' privacy.
• Show Respect in all spaces by leaving spaces how you found them.
• Show Respect in toilets by respecting others' privacy.

Over the next week, I will be working with the Student Wellbeing Leaders to discuss next term's focus. 

SRC

 At this week's SRC Meeting, the students continued to work through their classes' suggestions about what is working well and what are some things we can do at St Michael's to make it even better. Now that the SRCs have discussed and short-listed their classes' ideas we will put them all together and then ask their classes to vote. At the next SRC meeting, Mrs Herbison will attend to discuss which suggestions we can implement in Term 2.