Wellbeing Zone

Thank you!

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to our Sunny Heights community for a wonderful year. It has been a privilege to build such strong connections with our families, and your support has made all the difference for our students.

Wishing each of you a safe, restful break. Please remember to be gentle and kind to yourselves over the festive season.

Open Parachute - Supporting Healthy Social Media Use

Open Parachute is an online platform that we are using as a school to dig deeper into student well-being. In class students view videos of age appropriate challenges faced by students, and are then provided with proven strategies by clinical psychologist Dr Hayley Watson. This creates proactive positive mental health, and comes from research designed to reduce incidents of a range of mental health challenges, potential conflict and bullying.

Below is a link to a learning module called "Supporting Healthy Social Media Use". It takes around 30 minutes to complete, with the learning objectives of:

learn strategies for supporting healthy social media habits
learn conversation tools for social media boundary setting

In order to access the link, you will need to:

use Google Chrome as your browser
provide an email address so you can access the course

https://learn.openparachuteschools.com/standalone/supporting-healthy-social-media-use

growth and social connection.

Year 7 Transition

Brimbank Youth Services are offering a Transition workshop: Next Stop: High School on Thursday 22 January 2026 at Sunshine Library.

This half-day workshop will bring together up to 50 local Year 6 students to help them build confidence, strengthen social skills and connect with other young people who are also preparing for high school.

Workshop highlights include:

Connecting with other young people preparing for high school
Building confidence and resilience through fun, interactive activities
Strengthening social skills and friendships
Hearing from a passionate guest speaker on ‘Beating Bullying with Confidence’

If you wish for your child to attend please see below flyer.