Wellbeing

RIAC Cuppa & Chat

Families are invited to have a cuppa and chat with Carolyn from RIAC. Carolyn will be attending school on Friday 20th August for the morning to provide support to our families with parents / carers.

• Date: 20th August
• Time: 9am to 10am 
• Where: Djak-tjarra

For further information please contact Kristy Dupille or email wellbeing@spbendigo.catholic.edu.au.

More information on RIAC can be found here: Home - RIAC (Rights Information and Advocacy Centre)

National Week of Action Against Bullying & Violence 

St Peter’s are participating in the Bullying No Way: National week of action, 11 to 15 August 2025.  To support our learning for the next two weeks our Big Question activities we will be focusing on the 2025 theme “Be Bold. Be Kind. Speak Up.”  

During the next two weeks we will be engaging in discussions and activities aimed at promoting kindness, support, understanding and respect for diversity. We encourage families to take this opportunity to have open and honest conversations with your child about the impact of bullying and what they can do if they need support.  

What is bullying?   

Bullying behaviours: 

• Are aggressive, unkind or mean.  Bullying behaviours are one-sided, if both students are doing it to each other equally, that's conflict 
• Are repeated behaviours – e.g. happens more than once or twice 
• Happen on purpose/are deliberate - e.g. aren't accidents 
• Must have a power imbalance – e.g. older, bigger people picking on smaller, younger people, or ‘popular’ people targeting someone who they see as being ‘unpopular’, or a group targeting one person 
• Causes harm - this can be physical (e.g. bruises), psychological (e.g. distress) or social (e.g. losing friends) 

Bullying is not the same as:

• Being rude – saying or doing something hurtful that wasn’t planned or meant to hurt someone, e.g. pushing in line, snatching 
• Being mean – doing something hurtful to someone on purpose once or twice, e.g. a friend refusing to hang out with you one day 
• Conflict – there's a disagreement, both sides are aggressive/mean and there's no power imbalance (both sides can 'stand up' for themselves or fight back), e.g. two friends getting into an argument or fight and saying mean things to each other 
• Respectful feedback on behaviours you're doing that aren’t ok, e.g. I don't like it when you yell.” 
• A friend putting in a ‘boundary’ e.g. “I don't like it when you keep telling me what to do.” 
• Natural consequences, e.g. a friend not trusting you because you shared their secret 

Next week we will join with school’s all over Australia in the Kids Helpline largest anti bullying lesson, to help support our students in learning about how to be bold, be kind and speak up. 

If you would like to speak with someone about bullying, please contact your child’s teacher, a member of Wellbeing or Mr Darmody. 

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