Wellbeing
Lindsey Delooze - Acting Assistant Principal - Wellbeing and Disability Inclusion
Melanie Irons - Acting Assistant Principal - Curriculum, Engagement and Wellbeing
Tom Penberthy - Mental Health and Wellbeing Coordinator
Kelly Edwards - School Counsellor
We have made it!
Well done to the whole community for a wonderful and successful year. We have loved working with all of your wonderful children in each and every way. We hope you all have an excellent break from school. Good luck to any of our families that are moving on from Wembley - we wish you all a successful transition to your next setting.
If you need any help over the school holidays, remember there are a range of services that you can connect to. Please remember that you are not alone! See Kelly's section below for further details.
We also want to say a huge goodbye to Mr P! We know Tom has been a teacher at Wembley for a number of years, but Tom has done an incredible job over the last two years as our mental health and wellbeing leader in school, developing some great initiatives and most importantly building some incredible relationships with students and families. We are really going to miss Tom (and Gary!) being part of the team and wish him lots of success for next year.
Current Whole School Behaviour Focus - Revision
This week classroom teachers have selected a behaviour from our behaviour matrix to revise with students in their class based on the needs of their students. Thank you to all the students who have done such a great job of showing our expected behaviours this term and throughout the year.
Previous Whole School Behaviour Focus - Take care of equipment
Over the previous two weeks, students have been learning about the behaviour of 'taking care of equipment' as part of our value of respect. Many students were nominated to receive a Wembley Values Award for their great examples of taking care of equipment.
Thank you to all the students who nominated their peers when they saw them showing our behaviour focus of 'taking care of equipment' . Congratulations to each of the students, listed below, who won the Wembley Values Award.
Respect: Taking care of equipment | ||
|---|---|---|
| Prep | Hugo T | For showing our value of respect by taking care of equipment by voluntarily putting things away when they are left out and tidying your classroom without being asked. |
| Year 1 | Georgia L | For showing our value of respect by taking care of equipment when you take down the chairs in your classroom each morning and put pencil boxes onto everyone’s tables. |
| Year 2 | Alexandra S | For showing our value of respect by taking care of equipment. You always take care of your own belongings and those of your classmates. You also emptied out the pencil sharpenings and handed out the rubbers that had been left in the pencil pot. |
| Year 3 | Charlie M-W | For showing our value of respect by taking care of equipment when you always take care of your own and other people’s toys and resources. You show that you understand the importance of keeping our belongings safe. |
| Year 4 | Reva N | For showing our value of respect by taking care of equipment by always helping to clean the floor and keep desks clean in 4D. You go out of your way to tidy equipment, no matter if it's yours or not. |
| Year 5 | Leah N | For showing our value of respect by taking care of equipment when you are always respectful of Wembley equipment and are a highly organised learner in the classroom. |
| Year 6 | Arabella W | For showing our value of respect by taking care of equipment by always taking care of classroom furniture and showing pride and care for the belongings of everyone |
Christmas movies
A favourite Christmas family activity is to watch a festive flick but wow there are heaps to choose from! If you are confused about what movie to watch this December (or any other time) here is a great resource to read up on what is suitable:
https://childrenandmedia.org.au/top-tips/choosing-movies-for-children
Here are some of my favourite Christmas family movies:
Mental health supports on holidays
Here are the services that you can reach out to for wellbeing support in the holidays (and also year-round!). Take care over the summer holidays and can’t wait to see you in 2024!
Thursday 14th December will be our final day of Breakfast Club for the year. Thank you to all the wonderful students and adults who have helped out - we could not run without the wonderful support you all provide.
Next year Breakfast Club will continue to run on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. We are hoping to start in week 2.
Ginny has been an absolute legend this year! We are so lucky to have her as part of our team. Thanks to Hannah for always guiding the team in how to support Ginny in school and for providing us with such an incredible resource, Ginny is so well loved!
