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 is RESPONSIBILITY: Be safe.
We particularly focused on the expectation that we keep our hands, feet and objects to ourselves and it is our responsibility to be safe at school.
Here are some of our lucky PBL raffle winners who have been seen demonstrating our school expected behaviours. Well done to all the children who have received a PBL card during the week.
When the children win the PBL raffle they get to choose a reward such as coming dressed in casual clothes for the day or going out for an extra play.
Harmony Day and Harmony Week
Harmony Week (16–22 March 2026) is an annual Australian celebration recognizing cultural diversity, inclusiveness, and respect for everyone, regardless of background. Centered around the theme "everyone belongs," it highlights the nation's multiculturalism, with 21 March marking the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
At SFS, we will be celebrating Harmony Day on Tuesday 24th March with a special day of activities with the children celebrating the richness of Multiculturalism. Information regarding the Specialist day will be shared via Nforma soon.
Please ensure you read the information and respond to the question regarding the preparation and eating of food.
The children will be exploring music, dance and food from Australia, India and Italy that day and sharing the food they make in class.
The children can come dressed on that day in clothes that represent their cultural identity (either traditional clothing or colours of the flag, etc) or they can wear orange, the colour used to represent Harmony week.
There will be a special assembly on that day in the afternoon at 1.45pm including a presentation by Christine Sully who came to do some Bollywood dancing at the school picnic. Parents and families are most welcome to attend the assembly.
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 safe standard 1 is all about creating a culturally safe environment where children feel free to celebrate and express their culture. We do not tolerate racism at SFS. We will be celebrating Harmony Day soon which is one way we promote Child safe standard 1.
SRC
At SFS we have a Student Representative Council (SRC) which is a group of students from Year 1 to 6 who get elected to be the voice of the students.
We will meet on a Monday afternoon. The students will get an opportunity to think of ways they can make a difference at SFS and make some positive changes. We have a group of students who are chosen for Semester 1 and Semester 2.
It was pleasing to see so many students volunteer and express an interest in being selected to be in the SRC. The students had to get up and speak in front of their peers as to why they should be chosen for the role and what qualities or skills they have that would help them in the role. The names of the students are being finalised and will be announced soon. Stay tuned for an assembly soon where these students will be presented with their SRC badges.
Congratulations to the following students who have been chosen as our SRC reps for Semester 1. They were announced and presented with their badges today.
LS 1
Juniors: Akindu (MR) and Cattaleya (MA)
Seniors: Danuji (TP) and Declan (TP)
LS 2
Juniors: Jazelle (MF) and Aalambir (MF)
Seniors: Eden (MP) and Jai (AE)
LS 3:
Juniors: Isaac A (RI) and Rose P (ND)
Seniors: Lachlan (AS) and Alyssa (RC)
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 will also be available on the Parent Teacher interview evening at the end of term 1 to speak and can be booked on the interview app as well as with your child’s home group teacher.
Rachel Lenko
Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader