Wellbeing 

Active Kids Holiday Program

Free activities for kids these holidays

Running from Saturday 5 to Thursday 17 April, Wyndham’s Active Holidays brings fun and activity for kids to your holidays! Starting with Cross Country, there’s lots to try including Dance, Rugby, Basketball, Yoga, Footy, Gymnastics, Lacrosse, Table Tennis, Golf, Lawn Bowls and Hockey. Registrations open 7 days before each session. Check out the program at www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/activeholidays

Seasons for Growth 

We are very excited to once again offer the Seasons for Growth Program. At Our Lady of the Southern Cross we recognise that when changes occur in families through death, separation, divorce or related

circumstances, young people may benefit from learning how to make sense of these changes. 

Seasons for Growth is a small group program that offers a safe space where children can give voice to their experiences, understand their feelings, learn problem solving & decision making skills, develop friendships & recognise they are not alone.

The program helps students to:

Learn about how the death of a loved one, parental separation/ divorce, or other significant loss event may impact on their lives

Learn the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to understand and respond well to such

experiences, including:

● understanding the grief process

● recognising their feelings and other reactions to loss are normal

● developing skills for coping, problem solving and decision making

● building a peer-support network

● restoring self-confidence and self-esteem

Each child is given a journal to record their experience and learning during the program. Each session explores a theme using the seasonal imagery.

● Life is like the seasons

● Change is a part of life

● Valuing my story

● Caring for my feelings

● Making good choices

Seasons for Growth runs for eight weeks and each weekly session is 40-45 minutes. The program concludes with a ‘Celebration’ session. The program offers three levels with developmentally appropriate activities & discussions at each level.

● Level 1: 6-8 years

● Level 2: 9 - 10 years

● Level 3: 11 - 12 years

Seasons for Growth will run throughout Term 2 and will be facilitated by Sandy who has received special training & is an accredited facilitator for this program. 

If you think your son or daughter would benefit from Seasons for Growth I would encourage you to talk to him/her about the program. Should you decide to participate please fill in the permission page and return to the school by Tuesday April 22nd.

Our Lady of the Southern Cross is pleased to be able to offer this important program and we are confident that it will be a valuable learning experience for your child. If you have any further questions or would like to discuss the program do not hesitate to contact Sandy.

Positive Behaviours for Learning

As part of our ongoing development as a PBL school we continue to explicitly teach & model expectations from our matrix.

Our data has shown that we need to reteach the following expectations.

The foci for the next few weeks are:

Respect: 

We are aware of the personal space of others

We are patient

Responsibility

We keep our hands feet & objects to ourselves

We follow the rules in games

We move in a safe way

Resilience:

We include others

We talk through our disagreements with others

We let an adult know if we are feeling unsafe

These expectations will be explicitly taught during Wellbeing Hour & revisited throughout the week. It would be great if you could also reinforce these expectations at home and ask your child/children how they are following these at school.

If you have any concerns please contact Sandy - shenderson@olscwyn.catholic.edu.au or Kiah - kmiles@olscwyn.catholic.edu.au Alternatively you can phone the school office.

Cheers

Sandy & Kiah