WELLBEING & LEARNING DIVERSITY

🌈 Celebrating Neurodiversity Week at St Joseph's 🌈 

Last week, three of our students, Flynn M, Flynn R and Zara G presented an acknowledgement of Neurodiversity Week.  They acknowledged that this is a time to recognise and embrace the unique strengths, talents, and perspectives of all individuals and to foster a deeper understanding and acceptance of those with different learning styles and ways of thinking.

HUGE thank you to Ms Lynnie for working with our children to acknowledge and celebrate this important event.

April Holiday Workshops

Spelfabet Speech Pathology Practise in North Fitzroy is running week-long small group school programs for Student in Prep, Year 1 or Year 2 who are struggling with phonemic awareness and phonics.

These are intensive sessions with a maximum of four children per therapist, and aim to help young children keep up/catch up with peers. Children are grouped based on their skill level, therefore they need to be screened before the end of the current term. 

In the first week of the holidays, they will run five daily sessions with accompanying home practice for each group, focussing on phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondences and consolidation of reading and writing skills. They follow the Sounds-Write program’s structured, synthetic phonics Initial Code teaching sequence. Students are provided with daily homework activities requiring them to read and spell words with target sounds and word structure, and we lend them sets of specialist decodable books. 

At the end of the week, all students are provided with an individual report giving an overview of group activities, their progress and achievements, and recommendations. These groups are more affordable than individual speech therapy, and private health insurance rebates may apply. To find out more, or book a child in for screening, please email Spelfabet on groups@spelfabet.com.au, or call us on 03 8528 0138.

More details about the groups at www.spelfabet.com.au/groups.

Creative Healing an external agency that comprise of a team of accredited mental health social workers and art therapists providing focussed Psychological Strategies for students through Mental Health Care Plans, NDIS, or private funding.

They offer individual support and small group sessions in schools to help students with mental wellbeing, coping strategies, and peer relationships. Currently, there is no waitlist.

Attached is a flyer with information for their upcoming school holiday program.