Wellbeing
PBL
At SFS, our PBL (Positive Behaviours for Learning) school wide expectations are:
Respect, Responsibility and Kindness
We have a whole school social skills lesson where we explicitly teach an expected behaviour from our Behaviour Expectation matrix.
The focus for this week has been on KINDNESS: ENCOURAGE and SUPPORT OTHERS.
We have particularly focused on “Think before you speak” with a focus on not spreading gossip about others. The children learnt the acronym of THINK.
This is to help the children to ask themselves the following questions before they say something to someone else. Is it TRUE, HELPFUL, INSPIRING, NECESSARY, KIND).
Here are some of our lucky PBL raffle winners who have been demonstrating our school's expected behaviours. Congratulations!
Peaceful Classrooms and Peaceful Kids
‘Peaceful Classrooms’ provides schools, organisations and wellbeing practitioners with engaging Mindfulness activities and meditations for children and teens. The program has been created to support all children in the classroom or groups to develop an ongoing Mindfulness practice, learn about Mindfulness and be able to embed this into their day to day lives.
Simple, effective and proven exercises help students to stay calm, relax, focus and learn more effectively during the day. Peaceful Classrooms help students to build their emotional resilience so they are better equipped to deal with the day to day stresses that life brings them.
‘Peaceful Kids’ is a Mindfulness and Positive Psychology based program to lessen anxiety and stress and increase resilience in children from Prep to Year 12. The program gives children the skills, practice and support to utilise coping strategies that lessen the symptoms of anxiety and stress. This program helps children to build their emotional resilience so they are better equipped to deal with the day to day stresses that life brings them. The program also involves parental involvement and commitment to supporting the strategies at home.
Aims of the Program
- To minimise the symptoms of anxiety and stress
- To build emotional resilience
- To empower children to self-manage their anxiety
- To teach children Mindfulness exercises they can use for life
- To build a reservoir of strength to enable children to cope with life more effectively
- To minimise anxiety symptoms occurring in the future
- For children to use a range of effective coping strategies
- Teaches children how to self-calm
- To develop emotional intelligence skills
- Teaches children life long skills to manage stress and prevent stress build up
- Supports children so they know they are not alone with suffering from anxiety
I am inviting all parents to attend an online meeting on Wednesday 22nd April 2026 (Week 1 of Term 2) from 7 pm and 8 pm for those who would like to find out more information, particularly if you feel like these programs would be beneficial to your child and family. A form has been sent on Nforma.
Please respond to the form if you are going to attend the online parent meeting on Wednesday 22nd April at 7 pm. A Zoom link to the meeting will be sent home on the first week back after the holidays before the meeting.
Child Safety standards
All Victorian schools are required to comply with the 11 Victorian Child Safe Standards. This is to ensure that the safety and wellbeing of children is promoted, child abuse is prevented, and allegations of child abuse are responded to properly and promptly.
At SFS, we have regular conversations about Child safety and ensure that we put the Child safety standards into practice.
Child safety standard 6 is “People working with children and young people are suitable and supported to reflect child safety and wellbeing values in practice”.
To comply with this standard the school does the following:
- Recruitment, including advertising, referee checks and staff and volunteer pre-employment screening, emphasise child safety and wellbeing.
- Relevant staff and volunteers have current working with children checks or equivalent background checks.
- All staff and volunteers receive an appropriate induction and are aware of their responsibilities to children and young people, including record keeping, information sharing and reporting obligations.
- Ongoing supervision and people management is focused on child safety and wellbeing.
If you have any concern about your child’s mental health or wellbeing, please do not hesitate to contact me or make a time to speak with me. My working days are Monday to Wednesday and Friday.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy, safe and holy Easter spent with your loved ones. I look forward to working with you all in term 2.
Rachel Lenko
Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader
rlenko@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au
Positive Quote for the day
Positive Quote for the day
Rachel Lenko
Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader