Wellbeing

WELLBEING AT WEMBLEY

Week 4 and the term is already starting to slip away! 

In the last newsletter we shared some ideas relating to morning drop off routines. Following on from the suggestions made around how to support your child, this week we thought it would be helpful to consider possible causes. 

Four possibilities are: 

1: To avoid school-based situations that are negative or cause anxiety - for example a particular lesson or topic. 

2: To escape interactive social situations - for example oral presentations, drama role plays, time in the yard at recess/lunchtime. 

3: To pursue attention from significant others - for example wanting to stay home or go to work with parents.

4: To pursue tangible reinforcers outside of school - for example sleeping late, watching television.

If any of these stand out, as a potential reason for drop offs being challenging, this may help you to begin working through solutions to the identified problems. For example if you know that your child dislikes presenting in front of the class, you can discuss this with your child's teacher and an alternative strategy can be found, such as pre-recording a presentation. 

If possible keep your child's class teacher updated so that you have a support network around you and if further advice is needed your class teacher can reach out to the wellbeing team for more advice and strategies. 

SWPBS - SCHOOL WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT

Fortnightly Behaviour Focus

Our first fortnight of having the same behaviour focus across the school has been a great success.  In every class students engaged in lessons about 'Focusing on the Positive' or being optimistic. As part of these lessons, students looked at scenarios where they could practise how they might show resilience by focusing on the positive and read books where characters had to show resilience and optimism. 

Nominations

Thank you to all the students who nominated their peers when they saw them showing our fortnight's focus of 'Focusing on the Positive'. It was wonderful to read about all the great ways students have been showing optimism. Well done to all of Year 3, as this was the year level who made the greatest number of nominations. Well done for being so good at recognising when others are showing optimism! Congratulations to each of the students who won the Wembley Values Award for their year level for showing resilience by focusing on the positive. 

FORTNIGHTLY BEHAVIOUR FOCUS - ACCEPTING & ADAPTING

This week we have introduced our next behaviour focus: 'Accepting and Adapting'. When you accept something you recognise that it is necessary or that you cannot control or change it.  When you adapt to something you change to fit the new situation. Accepting and adapting can help you to move on even if something has not gone the way you would like.  Accepting and adapting does not mean you have to put up with unfair or unkind behaviours. 

Students have been learning what 'Accepting and Adapting' means and how they can use these skills to help them. Students and all Wembley staff, including classroom teachers, education support staff, specialists, members of leadership and our office staff will be watching to see if students are displaying these behaviours of 'Accepting and Adapting' and recording a nomination for any students who they see doing this well. 

Watch the video below where some of our students explain what 'Accepting and Adapting' means to them and why it is important to do. 

PROMOTING RESILIENCE - RAISING CONFIDENT CHILDREN

Maribyrnong Council are offering a session for families on 'Promoting Resilience - Raising Confident Children'. The session is aimed at families with children from ages 0 - 8 years. This session is being presented by FKA Children's Services on Thursday 18 May from 7:30pm - 9:00pm. For details please see the brochure below. You can book your place through the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/promoting-resilience-raising-confident-children-tickets-467337337557 .

BREAKFAST CLUB

A reminder that breakfast club runs Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8.30 - 8.55am. 

Last year we invested in reusable spoons, but these all disappeared very quickly. We have made the decision to try reusable spoons again as we are keen to continue working on reducing our waste. Please remind your child that if they take a spoon, when they are finished with it, drop it in the washing up container next to the breakfast club table. 

WELLBEING DOGS

This week Ginny has been enjoying a range of different activities and visiting some different lessons, we thought you might like to see some of the adventures she has been up to...

DISABILITY INCLUSION REFORM

If you have been keeping up to date with the school newsletters you will be aware that we have been updating you on the Disability Inclusion Profile roll out. Read more on the DE website: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/learningneeds/Pages/disability-inclusion.aspx 

We are currently looking through the format of our Individual Education Plans to ensure that the forms we use are in line with what we need as evidence for the Disability Inclusion Profiles. We are in the process of comparing what other schools use to ensure that we are making our paperwork as robust as it can possibly be. We will also be leading a professional development session with all teaching staff later this term to ensure that how goals are selected both match the needs of the student, the curriculum demands and evidence required for disability inclusion.