Grove Gazette

Mental Health and Wellbeing

OGPS Wellbeing Team

 

Dear Families,

 

We are very fortunate to have a Wellbeing Team here at OGPS. We regularly meet to discuss what we are up to and how we can improve. We talk about individual students and families and how we can best support them. Although our roles differ, we are a committed and united team, striving to help everyone achieve strong mental health and wellbeing. 

 

Ryan Baltetsch – Inclusive Practises

Ryan’s main role is to work with students and families. He will liaise with parents and professionals to organised profile meetings with the aim to get funding to provide adjustments in the classroom. 

 

Rhonda Stubbings – Chaplain

Rhonda will work with students, parents and staff providing pastoral care to help them with any challenges they may be facing. She also acts in a proactive role at school by facilitating classroom sessions such at Child Wise and Community and Me. 

 

Andy McNeilly – Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader

My main role is to build staff capacity to identify any mental health challenges our students may face and then knowing what to do. I also help staff to be proactive by assisting them to be better at teaching wellbeing in the classroom. This will help our students learn executive functioning skills such as kindness, trust, self-management, empathy, gratitude and so forth. This in turn is hoped to build the resilience of our students. Another part of my role is to help parents and carers through individual sessions or parent workshops. 

 

I am fortunate enough to be presenting a workshop at the Local Word Writers Festival for Geelong Regional Library. My session is all about relationships and is open to the public to attend. 

 

Here are the details:

 

  • Forming Connected Family Relationships Through Storytelling
  • Saturday 11am – 12noon
  • Ocean Grove Library
  • For parents, educators and aspiring writers

-Bookings essential.

 

Please book by following this link.

 

Have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing you at the Ocean Grove Library this Saturday.

 

 

Andy McNeilly

Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader