Wellbeing News
Mrs Charlotte Allan
Student Representative Council - SRC
Thank you again to our wonderful Semester 1 SRC members for all your hard work and contribution to our community. They will be receiving a certificate for their work at Monday's assembly. Our Semester 2 SRC members will be receiving their badges and announced to our community.
SMASH Expectations
This week and next week we will focus on the expectation of Acting Responsibly in the Classroom by using help seeking strategies.
The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
St Michael's is a lead school in this work
The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
In Term 3 all students across P-6 will focus on Topic 8 - Positive Gender Relations. This teaches students to build and set boundaries in positive relationships between and within genders, and the importance of accepting difference and diversity. It plays an active role within the prevention of gender-based violence.
Activities will assist students to:
- Develop an understanding of gender-based violence as involving unfair and hurtful behaviours based on ideas about what it means to be a boy or a girl
- Identify examples of the ways that gender-based violence can include things that people say (verbal), things they do to others’ bodies or possessions (physical) or things people do that affect how safe or welcome people feel e.g. ignoring, leaving out, laughing at (psychological)
- Examine the effects of physical, verbal and psychological gender-based violence
- Identify and practise respectful and gender friendly behaviours
- Develop and practise assertiveness and help seeking strategies to protect themselves when they feel unsafe in situations involving gender-based violence.
Watch this video as a provocation to hear the perspectives of young people about gender imbalance.
I am so happy to be back at St.Michael's after returning from maternity leave. My son Zach (11 months) and daughter Millie (3 years old) are adjusting to enjoying time with other special people in their lives while I am at work.
I am lucky enough to also be in a teaching role so have introduced myself in Science lessons to the students (if I did not already know them). Sam Isaacson (Learning Diversity Leader) and I are in constant communication. Please reach out if you need further resources, have concerns about your child's wellbeing or just for a chat.
Charlotte Allan