Engagement & Wellbeing
Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships:
Respectful Relationships at Spring Gully Primary School is a highly valued program where the students learn how to be ‘Respectful’, ‘Resilient’ and ‘Responsible’. This not only reflects our School Values but teaches our students how to ‘Be Awesome’, which is our school motto.
In this newsletter space, we will keep you up to date with what is going on schoolwide with Respectful Relationships, starting with 5/6 Murphy. This week we started our unit on Emotional Literacy and had fun talking about all the different emotions that we knew.
At our school, we use School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) to help create a safe, respectful and engaging learning environment for all students.
SWPBS is an evidence-based framework that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive behaviour, rather than simply responding when things go wrong. Together as a school community, we clearly define our expected behaviours, explicitly teach them to students, and acknowledge positive choices when we see them.
This week our students have been discussing individual rewards, class rewards and whole school rewards.
Over the coming weeks, classes will begin discussing the opportunity for students to represent their peers as part of our Student Representative Council (SRC).
Students in Grade 3/4 and 5/6 will confirm their class representatives at the beginning of Week 5, with the first SRC meeting taking place on Friday 27 February.
Students in Prep and Grade 1/2 will confirm their representatives during Week 6.
Our full SRC team will be formally introduced at assembly in Week 6, ahead of our first whole-group meeting (junior and senior representatives together) on Friday 13 March.
Now is a wonderful time to start chatting with your child about leadership and to see if they may be interested in putting their name forward for this opportunity.
SunSmart
As a proud SunSmart school, students are required to wear broad-brimmed hats or bucket hats outside. This is in line with the Cancer Council’s SunSmart recommendation that hats be worn from mid-August through to the end of April. Although it may sometimes not feel like hat weather in autmun and spring, UV levels can still be damaging on cool, cloudy days. Students without an appropriate hat will be asked to use shaded areas or suitable areas protected from the sun. Students without an appropriate hat will be required to remain in the shaded area around the hub during lunch and recess.
Too much of the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation can cause sunburn, skin and eye damage and skin cancer. UV damage accumulated during childhood and adolescence is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer later in life. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Australia. It is also one of the most preventable cancers. You can’t see or feel the sun’s UV. Whatever the weather, if the UV levels are three or more, it’s important to Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide!
Families are encouraged to access the daily local sun protection times via the SunSmart widget on the school’s website, free SunSmart app, sunsmart.com.au or bom.gov.au.
Hats may be purchased from our uniform supplier, Noone.
Noone's hours are Monday to Friday 9 am-5 pm and Saturday 9 am-12 pm.
Noone
21 Queen Street
Bendigo Victoria 3550
Phone: 03 7018 4199
Email: Bendigo@noone.com.au