Wellbeing Zone

Enter the Wellbeing Zone

Welcome to the Wellbeing Zone. When you enter the zone, you will find a wealth of information about all the things happening in the Wellbeing space at Sunshine Heights PS as well as strategies, articles, book recommendations and events that will help build our dream and culture of Wellbeing throughout our school community, inside and outside of school, so that we can sail together through a universe of possibilities with all the emotional and social skills we need to thrive.

 NEW Mackillop Family Services On-Demand Webinar: The Power of Play

The Western Regional Parenting Service has just released a new parenting videos! These information packed videos are 1hr in length, available to everyone and are watch-on-demand. Every video also comes with downloadable resources to embed your learnings.

The Power of Play

For parents/carers of children aged two - 12 years.

Discover how to offer your child the opportunity for 'true play' and thrive with the social, emotional, cognitive and physical benefits. In this video we help you reframe what constitutes as play, changes you may need to make and steps you can take to make play a little easier to engage in every day.

Mackillop Family Services offer a range of supportive videos for parents, which can be accessed here. 

Happy Space Allied Health Speech Pathology Program

Our partnership with Happy Space Allied Health has been so amazing and having Liv onsite to support our students (and staff) has been so insightful and useful. 

Liv works at our school every Thursday and is now at capacity with the number of students she can see. But... in exciting news... she is keen to increase her days to 2 days every week, so if your child has NDIS and you are looking for a speech pathologist to support them with their communication and social goals and would love your child to attend onsite speech pathology sessions, please reach out to me to let me know what support your child needs and I can connect you with Liv! 

Glasses for Kids Program 

We are very excited to announce that Sunshine Heights PS will be getting the Glasses for Kids program in Term 4. This program aims to remove vision impairment as a potential barrier to educational engagement. 

The program will be available for all students in Prep to Year 3 and will take place in Term 4, Week 7 from Tuesday 19th to Thursday 21st November 2024. 

There is no cost for students to participate in the program and receive glasses if needed. Students who require glasses will be able to choose from a range of frames. 

All students who return their consent form and optometrist questionnaire will be screened. Any students who require further testing will have this done on the day. 

Consent forms and optometrist questionnaires have been sent home with students in Prep to Grade 3. 

If you haven't already done so, please remember to return your completed consent form to your child's teacher by the end of Term 3. 

More information on the program can be found here - https://stateschoolsrelief.org.au/programs/glasses-for-kids-program/ 

New Telephone Translation Service

We’re excited to announce our new phone translation services to help non-English speaking and EAL families. If you need translation, you can follow these steps: 

Step 1: Call (03) 7039 9021

Step 2: Choose your language:

• For Mandarin, press 1
• For Cantonese, press 2
• For Vietnamese, press 3
• For Arabic, press 4
• For Persian, press 5
• For all other languages, press 6

Step 3: You will be linked with a translator and connected to the school.

Brimbank Youth Services 'Youth Fest' in the West

Brimbank Youth Services is back running an incredible festival for young people aged 10-25 called 'Youth Fest' opened to all young people living or working in Brimbank. 

Brimbank Youth Fest begins on September 1st and continues for the whole month. 

There’s a range of free social, physical, and creative arts activities across all ages. 

Click the link below to download the program...

You can also visit their website to find out more information. 

Brimbank Youth Services 'Youth Fest' in the West

The annual Brimbank Families and Children Expo will be held from 10:00-2:00 on Tuesday 22nd October at the Salvation Army Hall, 42 Devonshire Road Sunshine.

The Expo brings together service providers around Brimbank to showcase their services and a range of community initiatives for families and children (0 – 12 years). 

It aims to increase awareness of and connection between family and children services in Brimbank and is open to all service providers working in and around Brimbank.

The Expo will have a range of activities for families and children like an animal farm, face painting, story time and much more! 

It will also be a networking space for various service providers to inform families of the various services available to them.