Upcoming Wellbeing events in Term 2:

GRIP Leadership Conference- Year 5/6 Leaders (May 1st)
Reconciliation Week- (Week 6/7)
Glasses for Kids (Week 10- June 23rd & 24th)
LifeChanger- Year 6.

Wellbeing Structure-

Tegan is our Mental Health and Wellbeing Leading Teacher. She is full time in this role.

Nicole is our Primary Wellbeing Officer. She works Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday each week.

Kimmie is our Disability Inclusion and Wellbeing Education Support Staff member. She works Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week.

Term 2 Wellbeing Support at ETRPS-

In Term 2, we welcome Lachlan Shelley who is completing his 2nd placement of Social Services studies through Torrens University.

Lachlan will be supervised and supported by the wellbeing team - Nicole, Tegan and Kimmie. He will be with us for approx. 7 weeks, 3 days a week (Wed – Fri).

Lachlan will be working with students 1:1 and in small groups to support student wellbeing through Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

Lachlan has prior experience from his 1st placement at another local school, working closely with students in the Hands On Learning team.

Welcome Lachlan!

During Term 2 we also welcome DET Outreach Coach - Michael (Mick) Ring who will be working with our school until the end of Term 3.

Mick’s role is to support staff with their programs, classroom set-up and resource creation for best practice and positive student outcomes.

Mick previously worked with our school approx. 4 years ago and his contribution is truly invaluable. We look forward to a refresh of his expertise and introducing our newer staff members to him.

Welcome Mick!

Harmony Week- March 17th-21st

In Week 8 we celebrated Harmony Week at ETRPS. Throughout the week our Cultural Leaders ran cultural games during lunch breaks.

On Friday the 21st of March we had multi age activities where we played a variety of cultural games including Duck Duck Goose, Octopus, What's the Time Mr Wolf, Weet Weet, Cat and Mouse, Brambahl and Knock Down the Can.

We then had a Cultural Parade with Echuca Twin Rivers Specialist School where we celebrated the countries we are all from and dressed in a touch of orange or traditional cultural dress.

LifeChanger- Navigating Friendships.

In Week 10 Noah and Ryan from LifeChanger came to ETRPS to work with our Year 6 students. The topic focus was around 'Navigating Friendships'. This session included tasks and activities around connection, personal boundaries & gratitude.

Glasses for Kids- Term 2 visit.

In Term 2 the 'Glasses for Kids' program will come to ETRPS. This is a free initiative supported by State Schools Relief and aims to support students from Prep to Year 3. Please contact your child's teacher for a referral form. See below for further information.

Sensory Den-

This year we have dedicated a classroom space to creating a 'Sensory Den'. This space is open at break times for 10 students at a time and has been a lovely calm environment for our students to play in. We have fish, slime, play dough, Lego and couch spaces to enjoy.

Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships, (RRRR)-

During Term 2, our students will be learning about Respectful Relationships through their learning in RRRR Wellbeing Sessions.

Parents and carers as partners:

Parents and carers are a child’s first and most important teachers, particularly in relation to teaching core values and key social and emotional skills. The RRRR resource encourages students to talk with parents, carers, Elders and family members about what they are learning within RRRR.

Please read your child's Department Newsletter for a more in depth overview of the content to be covered in your child's year level in Term 2.

Online Doctor

BRAVE Program-

The BRAVE program is an online self-help program that contains both resources and information for children, teenagers and their parents. BRAVE Program is free of charge to all young people, parents/carers, and professionals who live within Australia. It is designed specifically to help young people with anxiety overcome their worries and improve the quality of their lives.

BRAVE is a cognitive behaviour therapy tool based on established clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety, as described by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

No matter how old or young you are, everyone experiences anxiety at times. We here at the BRAVE program know that worrying about things all the time is tough. The BRAVE program was developed to help young people and their parents develop skills and coping strategies so that your worries and anxiety don’t stop young people from doing the things you want or need to do.

The BRAVE Team also know how hard it can be to make the time to fit everything in! The BRAVE program is an online program that you can work through at your own speed in the privacy of your own home.

Wombats Wish- Grief Support

ROAR- Intereach Family Mental Health Support Service-

ROAR is a service supported by Intereach in which families residing in NSW can access Early Intervention, short term assistance for free. Please see below for the flyer and further information.

Be You

Throughout 2025, ETRPS will continue working alongside Be You to support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of our community.

Be You builds on the success and learnings from five existing programs aimed at promoting social and emotional health and wellbeing for children and young people in the education space: KidsMatter Early Childhood, KidsMatter Primary, MindMatters, Response Ability and headspace School Support. Be You is building on the evidence base and ten years of experience of these programs. These programs are now integrated into Be You – one single, national initiative delivered through early learning services, primary and secondary schools.

Through the partnership with Be You, staff will further develop knowledge about Mentally Healthy Communities and build our Mental Health Literacy understanding.

Fly2Health

By way of introduction, at Fly2Health Victoria we fly experienced (no new grad) Speech Pathologists and OT's to Traralgon, Sale, Horsham, Swan Hill and Echuca every fortnight to serve participants of the NDIS and also private participants. If your school has NDIS participants that are unable to be seen in Echuca we have immediate availability for Speech and OT with our team. Our clinic in Echuca is based at the Echuca Neighbourhood House at 261 High St. We run the fortnightly clinic from 9am - 4pm every second Thursday (this Thursday the 18th of April).

If you are an NDIS participants waiting for this service, please send this online referral through and we can commence services immediately.

https://flyhealthgroup-2.snapforms.com.au/form/new-client-referral-form

Please see below for further details.

Community Supports for our Parents

Taking a moment to offload, let go and be heard

Just having a chance to offload and let go of what is currently overwhelming us. Parentline is one of those supports. Connecting you with trained counsellors for a completely confidential conversation. Available 8am-Midnight 7 days a week.

Definitely a number worth keeping on the fridge!

Breakfast Club

Our Breakfast Club continues to run every morning at the Centre from 8.35am to 8.50am. We are so grateful to Foodbank Vic and Moama Bakery who generously provide food items for our students to enjoy.

Anglicare Early Help Services at ETRS

Fly2Health is now operating weekly in Echuca!

SWPBS

Congratulations