Upcoming Wellbeing events in Term 1:

Buddies
Harmony Day & Cultural Celebration Day- March 21st (Week 8)
School Nurse Visit- Week 8
LifeChanger- Week 9

Wellbeing Structure-

Tegan is our Mental Health and Wellbeing Leading Teacher. She is full time in this role.

Nicole is our Primary Wellbeing Officer. She works Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday each week.

Kimmie is our Disability Inclusion and Wellbeing Education Support Staff member. She works Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week.

Professional Learning- Friday March 7th

On Friday the 7th of March all staff at ETRPS will participate in a Professional Learning day centred around Autism and Sensory Processing. Staff will consider their classroom environments and how we can best set them up to support our students and their sensory needs. This session will be run by Dr Anna Bortoli who is a TEACHH Advanced consultant with a wealth of knowledge in supporting students requiring additional support.

Glasses for Kids- Term 2 visit.

In Term 2 the 'Glasses for Kids' program will come to ETRPS. This is a free initiative supported by State Schools Relief and aims to support students from Prep to Year 3. Please contact your child's teacher for a referral form. See below for further information.

Sensory Den-

This year we have dedicated a classroom space to creating a 'Sensory Den'. This space is open at break times for 10 students at a time and has been a lovely calm environment for our students to play in. We have fish, slime, play dough, Lego and couch spaces to enjoy.

Parenting Information Sessions- March

In March we will have several Parent Information Sessions available to parents wishing to attend. They will be on site here at ETRPS. Please phone if you have any questions. See below for flyer.

Buddies-

This Term we will have 2 sessions for Buddies. We will focus on meeting our buddies in the first session and getting to know them and what they like/enjoy.

In Session 2 we will focus on Building strong relationships in our school community and understanding what Bullying is.

Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships, (RRRR)-

This Term, Prep students will be learning about Respectful Relationships through their learning in Topic 1 and Topic 2 of RRRR.

Parents and carers as partners:

Parents and carers are a child’s first and most important teachers, particularly in relation to teaching core values and key social and emotional skills. The RRRR resource encourages students to talk with parents, carers, Elders and family members about what they are learning within RRRR.

Topic 1: Emotional Literacy is all about building emotional literacy and will support our students to develop the ability to be aware of, understand and use information about the emotional states of themselves and others.

Topic 2: Personal and cultural strengths will support students to develop a vocabulary to help them recognise and understand strengths and positive qualities in themselves and others. They identify the values and strengths they have learnt from role models within their families and culture to think about how this guidance helps them to treat others with respect. They consider how to draw on these strengths to engage with the challenges and opportunities that life presents.

Online Doctor

BRAVE Program-

The BRAVE program is an online self-help program that contains both resources and information for children, teenagers and their parents. BRAVE Program is free of charge to all young people, parents/carers, and professionals who live within Australia. It is designed specifically to help young people with anxiety overcome their worries and improve the quality of their lives.

BRAVE is a cognitive behaviour therapy tool based on established clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety, as described by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

No matter how old or young you are, everyone experiences anxiety at times. We here at the BRAVE program know that worrying about things all the time is tough. The BRAVE program was developed to help young people and their parents develop skills and coping strategies so that your worries and anxiety don’t stop young people from doing the things you want or need to do.

The BRAVE Team also know how hard it can be to make the time to fit everything in! The BRAVE program is an online program that you can work through at your own speed in the privacy of your own home.

Wombats Wish- Grief Support

ROAR- Intereach Family Mental Health Support Service-

ROAR is a service supported by Intereach in which families residing in NSW can access Early Intervention, short term assistance for free. Please see below for the flyer and further information.

Be You

Throughout 2025, ETRPS will continue working alongside Be You to support the Mental Health and Wellbeing of our community.

Be You builds on the success and learnings from five existing programs aimed at promoting social and emotional health and wellbeing for children and young people in the education space: KidsMatter Early Childhood, KidsMatter Primary, MindMatters, Response Ability and headspace School Support. Be You is building on the evidence base and ten years of experience of these programs. These programs are now integrated into Be You – one single, national initiative delivered through early learning services, primary and secondary schools.

Through the partnership with Be You, staff will further develop knowledge about Mentally Healthy Communities and build our Mental Health Literacy understanding.

Fly2Health

By way of introduction, at Fly2Health Victoria we fly experienced (no new grad) Speech Pathologists and OT's to Traralgon, Sale, Horsham, Swan Hill and Echuca every fortnight to serve participants of the NDIS and also private participants. If your school has NDIS participants that are unable to be seen in Echuca we have immediate availability for Speech and OT with our team. Our clinic in Echuca is based at the Echuca Neighbourhood House at 261 High St. We run the fortnightly clinic from 9am - 4pm every second Thursday (this Thursday the 18th of April).

If you are an NDIS participants waiting for this service, please send this online referral through and we can commence services immediately.

https://flyhealthgroup-2.snapforms.com.au/form/new-client-referral-form

Please see below for further details.

Community Supports for our Parents

Taking a moment to offload, let go and be heard

Just having a chance to offload and let go of what is currently overwhelming us. Parentline is one of those supports. Connecting you with trained counsellors for a completely confidential conversation. Available 8am-Midnight 7 days a week.

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Breakfast Club

Our Breakfast Club continues to run every morning at the Centre from 8.35am to 8.50am. We are so grateful to Foodbank Vic and Moama Bakery who generously provide food items for our students to enjoy.

Anglicare Early Help Services at ETRS

Fly2Health is now operating weekly in Echuca!

Bernie and Frankie

Our Wellbeing Dogs