Wellbeing and Inclusion

International Day of Families

International Family Day, observed on May 15th, is celebrated with activities that 

strengthen bonds and honour diverse family structures. Engaging ideas include creating family trees, cooking traditional recipes together, organising family storytelling sessions, building a family time capsule, and doing community service or volunteering together. 

Home & Memory-Making Activities

• Family Tree Craft: Use templates or draw a family tree to teach children about their ancestry and structure.
• Time Capsule: Gather items, letters, and photos, then seal them to be opened at a future date.
• Family Recipe Night: Cook a traditional, intergenerational recipe that shares your heritage with younger family members.

Community & Outdoor Activities

• Volunteering: Engage in community service to teach children the value of helping others.
• Outdoor Fun: Visit a local park or beach for a family picnic or hike.

Tribes - Gratitude

This week, we celebrated Gratitude in our multi-aged Tribes groups. 

We read a story about being grateful, created a "Grateful Jar" in each tribe, and we all had a go at writing an acrostic poem about what we are grateful for.

Our Gratitude Jars will be on display during Education Week. 

You can practise gratitude at home by making your own Gratitude Jar.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED: 

• Time together as a family. 

• Recycled jar or container. 

• Blank piece of paper. 

• Pencils and textas.

WHAT TO DO: 

• Decorate a jar or container to use as a gratitude jar. 

• As a family, talk about the things and people you are grateful for in your lives. 

• Every day this week, encourage each family member to write down a thing or person they are grateful for, then place this in the gratitude jar. 

• Don’t forget to include the reason why you are grateful for this thing or person. 

• At the end of the week, sit around as a family and read out all the things and people your family are grateful for. 

• This can be something you continue to do as a family and do a check-in weekly to read these out. 

• This can also tie in very nicely with writing kind things about people in the family (practising empathy).

Family Gratitude habit builder: 

While sitting around the dinner table, invite each family member to share three things from their day that they are grateful for.

We would love to see what you are doing at home. Please share some photos or let your child’s teacher know what you have enjoyed.