Wellbeing at TPS
Teesdale Primary School
Free Webinars
Free E-Safety Webinars for parents and carers
Join a free webinar from the e-safety commissioner. These live webinars give parents and carers the knowledge, skills and tools to support their children to have safe online experiences.
https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/webinars
Webinar topics are as follows:
- Recognising online coercive control in young people's lives
- Understanding and using parental controls to help protect your child online
- eSafety 101: how eSafety can help you
- Sexual extortion: What parents and carers need to know
- Exploring the online experiences of boys and young men
- Download and share: term 2 topics
Attendance
At Teesdale Primary School, we prioritise regular school attendance.
We will work with families to ensure students are in class with their peers and teachers and enjoying all the benefits that brings.
Attending school every day means experiencing what counts, the learning, friendship, fun and opportunities that can shape your child’s future.
We understand that there are times when your child will need to miss school but to ensure minimal disruption to their education, please consider scheduling family holidays or medical/dental appointments outside of school time.
If your child is well enough to attend but is worried about friendships, schoolwork or a certain aspect of their day, please encourage them to come to school. Avoiding school can make these feelings worse and can create a negative pattern of behaviour.
If your child is having difficulty attending school, talk to their teacher, Mr Lindsay (wellbeing), Miss Barnett or Mr Irwin.
We know that parents and carers can be juggling challenges daily to get your children to school. If your child must miss school, notify us as soon as possible via Sentral or the School Office so we can work together to support them.
For more information about the importance of everyday attendance, see Attendance and Missing School.
Remember, Every Day Counts.
Wellbeing supports available for all TPS families
- Ballarat Health Service Access and Triage, or call 1300 094 187 for urgent mental health support
- Suicide Call Back Service, or call 1300 659 467
- Lifeline, or call 13 11 14, or Text 0477 13 11 14
- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander crisis support line 13YARNor call 13 92 76
- Kids Helpline or call 1800 551 800
- Beyond Blue or call 1300 224 636
- Headspace or call 1800 650 890. Headspace also have online chat services that can be accessed at Online & phone support | headspace
- Grief & Loss - The Trauma and Grief Network (TGN) (anu.edu.au)
- Supporting primary school-age children through grief - Emerging Minds
- How to support your family and yourself through grief and loss - Emerging Minds