Mental Health and Wellbeing:

 Supporting Inclusion and Respectful Curiosity at School 

 Welcome to Term 3

We are well and truly in the midst of winter, although spring is not too far away. During the colder months, students are often exposed to coughs, colds, and other seasonal illnesses. If your child is unwell and unable to attend school, please contact Bek in the office to report their absence.

As the weather becomes colder, students are encouraged to wear warm clothing. To help us return any lost jumpers, coats, and other removable items, please ensure that all clothing is clearly labelled with your child's name.

Thank you for your support.

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program (RRRR)

The Term 3 program runs a little differently to previous terms. By the end of the year, all of the topics will be covered, but the number of lessons allocated to each year level per topic changes. The topics that will be covered are:

Foundation students completed Topic 6: Help-Seeking at the end of Term 2. This term they will be covering Topic 7: Norms and stereotypes: Gender for the term. Over the next two weeks they will focus on: 

a) Who am 1? Different things to know about me

b) Thinking about a future me

At home: Invite students to ask parents, grandparents and siblings about their favourite toys, games and hobbies when they were in Foundation. Are they the same or different? 

Year 1 and 2 students will be covering Topic 6: Help-seeking.  Topic specific vocabulary includes: diversity, respect, inclusion and empathy. Over the next two weeks they will focus on: 

a) Strategies to help a friend who has a problem

b) How do I ask for help and who can I ask for help

At home: Encourage students to ask a family member about a time sometime helped them. Who was it? What did they do? How did it feel when they were helped? 

Year 3 and 4 students will be covering Topic 6: Help-seeking. Over the next two weeks they will focus on: 

a) Responding to help-seeking situations 

b) How big is the problem?

At home: Revise the checklist of coping strategies. How can you use these strategies when solving problems.

Year 5 and 6 students will be covering Topic 6: Help-seeking. Over the next two weeks they will focus on:

a) I wonder if I need help with this

b) Thinking about trust and courage

At home: Discuss the scenarios with your child. Who are the people they could talk to? How could they solve it?

Our Stand Up Project leaders delivered their introductory lesson during the last week of Term 2. They delivered the content with confidence and thrived teaching their designated class a new game. 

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