Hampton Primary School

Wellbeing

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

 

The teaching and learning of Wellbeing at Hampton Primary School is implemented with the support of resources from The Resilience Project, The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) program and the Cybersafety project. As the RRRR program may be new to some of you I thought I’d provide you with some context and information.

 

The RRRR program has been developed as a holistic approach to school-based, primary prevention of gender-based violence.  It was developed in 2016 to support schools and early childhood settings to promote and model respect, positive attitudes, and behaviours. It teaches our children how to build healthy relationships, develop resilience and build confidence. 

 

The activities that the students engage in are evidenced based, age appropriate and embedded throughout our whole school Wellbeing curriculum.  They provide explicit opportunities for developmentally appropriate learning about gender stereotypes and roles, keeping safe, and respectful relationships.  The RRRR learning materials cover eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning which are taught from Foundation to Year 6. 

  • Emotional Literacy
  • Personal Strengths
  • Positive coping
  • Problem solving
  • Stress management
  • Help-seeking
  • Gender and identity
  • Positive gender relations

HPS teaching staff have been engaging in professional learning opportunities to develop our understanding of the RRRR initiative.

 

More information about Respectful Relationships and the RRRR curriculum can be found at:

https://www.vic.gov.au/respectful-relationships?Redirect=1

Personal Strengths

Next term the whole school Wellbeing teaching and learning program will focus on Topic Two of the RRRR program:  Personal Strengths.

 

Children 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 which use strength-based approaches promote student wellbeing, positive behaviour and academic achievement.

 

Curriculum resources from the Resilience Project and the Cybersafety program will be used to support the teaching and learning of Personal Strengths.  The Cybersafety program has Strength as one of its goals and The Resilience Project addresses Character Strengths through the Emotional Literacy stream. 

Holiday Activity - Empathy and Kindness

Something for the holidays from The Resilience Project:

Families will learn about empathy by showing kindness and compassion towards others.  The link discusses developing Empathy through kindness and contains a great holiday activity – Kindness bingo.  Showing random acts of kindness to others also boosts our own positive emotions, energy and self-esteem.  

 

I hope you all have a happy and safe break.

Amanda Howe

Assistant Principal - Wellbeing