Wellbeing

NCCD

What is the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD)?  Schools must  complete the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) every year. It counts the number of students who receive additional adjustments or “help” at school because of a disability. The NCCD helps government plan for the needs of students with disability.  Please refer to the attachment for more information. 

Teeth on Wheels

We're thrilled to announce that based on your valuable feedback, we've partnered with Teeth on Wheels for our dental services at OLA! This company comes highly recommended, focussing on minimising fear and promoting lifelong oral health. Plus, their mobile clinics make dental care convenient for everyone. We're excited for this positive change and look forward to working together with Teeth on Wheels to ensure the wellbeing of our students.

Attached below is a detailed PowerPoint presentation with more information.

Further details about utilising this excellent program will be provided later this term, closer to the scheduled date. 

Georgina Manning Coaching Questions

Reassure that feeling anxious is normal 

• Let your child know that it is normal to have fears and worries from time to time and that you also get worried at times. 
• Remind your child that feeling anxious is not dangerous – it is just a feeling that people have and a normal response. 
• Explain and role model that you can relax and calm yourself down when anxious through using calming strategies, talking to someone, or finding something fun/interesting to do.

Help to problem solve using coaching questions  

• Once you have listened using reflective listening, you can help them to problem solve for the next step. This helps children to learn a lifelong skill and an effective coping strategy for anxiety or worrying. 
• Ask them ‘what could you do?’ ‘How do you think you could..?’ ‘I wonder what would happen if you?’ 
• Help your child to make a plan of what they could do to solve a problem. 
• If there is nothing they can specifically do to solve a problem (such as just generally worrying) then using a coping strategy such as finding something fun to do or calming exercise. 
• Give lots of positive praise for trying to solve a problem and give them a chance to try out solutions on their own. If we step in and solve a problem for them by taking over and doing things for them, we are robbing them of the essential practice needed to develop their emotional resilience. Every time they solve a problem on their own (with guidance from you if needed), their confidence and self-mastery builds. This helps to immunise them against anxiety in the future as they form a belief that they can handle tricky situations on their own.

Inform and Empower

Thank you to everyone who attended the 'Managing Anxiety and Other Big Feelings for Tweens' webinar last night, we had 29 registered families! We hope you found it informative and helpful.

For those who could not make it or would like to revisit the content, we have provided links below to a replay of the session as well as additional family resources.

Click here to watch Webinar Replay

Click here to access the free Parent Toolkit (slides, links, videos)

Shelby Turner and Josy Reeder