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WELLBEING & LEARNING DIVERSITY

Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships

 

This year, as part of our Social and Emotional Learning program, St Joseph's will trial the Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships (RRRR) program. This program forms part of the Victorian Curriculum and is used in hundreds of State, Catholic and Independent schools across Victoria. It is endorsed by the Melbourne Archdiocese of Catholic Schools (MACS).

 

The RRRR program:

  • Enables schools, leaders, teachers and communities to promote and model respect and equality
  • Was developed in response to the Royal Commission into Family Violence
  • Teaches children to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence
  • Has a sound evidence base from reputatble research bodies and leading authorities
  • Was developed by nationally and internationally recognised experts from the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education.

Evidence shows that students who feel cared for by their peers and teachers are more connected to their school and their learning. The program will sit alongside our existing Zones of Regulation resources. 

 

This year, the RRRR program will focus on 6 key areas:

  • Emotional Literacy: This helps students develop the ability to be aware of, understand and use vocabulary about the emotional state of themselves and others
     
  • Personal Strengths: Students develop vocabulary to help them recognise and understand various strengths and positive qualities in themselves and others. They identify the strengths they admire in others and those they need to draw on to engage with the challenges and opportunities that life presents.
     
  • Positive Coping: Students develop language around coping, critically reflect on their coping strategies and extend their repertoire of positive coping strategies.
     
  • Problem Solving: Students learn a range of problem-solving techniques that can be applied when confronting personal, social and ethical dilemmas. They engage in learning tasks in which they apply their problem solving skills to realistic situations. 
     
  • Stress Management: This teaches students to learn a range of problem solving skills through applied learning tasks, so that they are able to cope with challenges as they arise.
     
  • Help seeking: Help seeking is a coping strategy which involves seeking technical, instrumental, social or emotional support from other people. 

 

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School Counselling Service

 

We are thrilled to welcome Jo Lindelauf back to St Joseph's this year. Jo is an experienced Educational and Developmental Psychologist with a great deal of experience in primary schools.

 

Jo is available to see students on Tuesdays. Please contact Ashlyn Keane for more information:

akeane@sjnorthcote.catholic.edu.au

 

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