Student Wellbeing

Unpacking positive mental health and wellbeing

Positive mental health and wellbeing is important for your child or teen’s healthy development and learning. It supports them to manage the normal challenges of life.

Environments, experiences, relationships and individual characteristics all contribute to mental health and wellbeing.

For children and teens, wellbeing is supported when they:

• feel valued, loved and safe
• have their basic material needs met
• have physical, mental, emotional and social health
• can learn (in and outside the classroom)
• participate in decision-making
• are connected to their community
• have a positive sense of identity and culture.

Mental health exists on a continuum

It can be helpful to think of mental health and mental ill-health as existing along a continuum.

We all move along the continuum as we face challenges and situations that test our capacity to cope and change our mental health. Our mental health can change slowly or quickly.

Most people will experience changes in their mental health at some point during their lifetime. Social, emotional and environmental factors all influence our position along the continuum. Learn more about the mental health continuum.

https://www.vic.gov.au/promoting-mental-health-and-wellbeing-home

St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal

Our next Mini Vinnie project will be to support St Vincent de Paul to collect food items for their Christmas Appeal. Our students in Mini Vinnies will be meeting with a representative form St Vincent's to will be there to help educate us about who needs this food and what types of food are best to collect.

Please bring items and place them in the basket in classrooms.

Food ideas to bring:

• Sugar
• Coffee
• Tea bags
• Cereals
• Ham in a tin
• Small bags of rice
• Pasta sauce
• tins of tomatoes or baked beans
• Salt or pepper
• Christmas puddings in tins

Jenny Willmott

jwillmott@sjvmulgrave.catholic.edu.au

Deputy Principal