Student Well-being 

Each week a different Learning Community will share what they have been doing for Well-being that week. This week we put the spotlight on the wonderful Year 1/2 and 3/4 Community!

Year 1/2 Community Well-being Spotlight!

In the 1/2 Community we have been learning about what it means to be healthy and how we can have a happy and healthy mind.  

We have explored some ways to be physically healthy such as making fruit kebabs. We learned that each fruit gives us vitamins and nutrients for our bodies to be healthy. We have learned about the different ways to move our body and be physical such as exercising, playing a sport or even walking our dog.

We have undertaken meditation where we have focused on our breathing and thoughts to relax our minds and feel calm after a long day. 

Year 3/4 Community Well-being Spotlight!

We are exploring what happiness means to us and what makes us happy. Students were asked to consider their own happiness and that we all have right to be happy, healthy and safe.

Students brainstormed everything they know about happiness and created their own Happy Balloons using words, colours and pictures. To explore the topic in more depth they worked in groups to share what they see, think and wonder about happiness. Here are some of the students' ideas:

"I see happiness when I see people smiling" Summer De Domenico

"I think happiness is good to help people when they are feeling down." 

Luke Costa-Scillieri

"I wonder how happiness starts inside you" 

Ada Ogilvie

Be kind to you!

Just a reminder that it is always important to stop and be kind to yourself.  Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of our busy everyday lives that we forget that every now and then we need to be a little easier on ourselves. It is also important to model this to our children.

Self-kindness means acting compassionately toward yourself when you are struggling to meet your own expectations, meeting with unexpected difficulties and/or met with failure. It’s time to drop the stiff upper lip, put aside the strict schedule and stop berating yourself. Instead say to yourself, “This is really tough right now. How can I take some comfort and look after myself?” This is a message worth modelling.

Lauren Borg

Well-being Leader