Wellbeing

with Mrs Hodgson

Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships

This term in Respectful Relationships, students will learn about Positive Coping and then move onto Problem Solving. With Positive Coping they’re exploring how to cope with challenges, reflect on their own strategies and build a toolkit of ways to manage tricky situations. This will help to develop resilience, emotional awareness and confidence in handling everyday ups and downs.

At Home Activity

‘Around the table - Family Conversation’ one evening in the next week or so, try talking as a family about how each person copes when they’re feeling stressed, upset or overwhelmed. Ask questions like: “What helps you feel better when you’ve had a tough day?” or “What’s something you do that doesn’t really help?” This can be a lovely way to share ideas, learn from one another and talk about which coping strategies are helpful and which ones might not work so well. It’s all about opening up the conversation and supporting each other to build healthy habits when life gets tricky.

Lunchtime Clubs

Our Lunchtime Clubs continue to be enjoyed by many students. Chess Club has been a hit on a Monday with the year 3-6 students, whilst Run Club is still attracting good numbers on a Friday morning. As the weather gets cooler, the library is getting busier especially on colder mornings. The Gardeners have worked hard to clear all the garden beds and should be able to plant some winter veggies in the coming weeks.

The Wellbeing Hub is open during the afternoon recess break on a Tuesday-Thursday if students need some quiet time.

Useful Websites:

Looking after your child's mental health:

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/parents/family-health/your-childs-mental-health-advice.pdf

Easing into Adolescence

The Department of Education has launched an Easing into

adolescence webpage for families of students aged 10 to 14 (Grade 5 to Year 8).

The webpage has information and strategies you can use to help ease your child into adolescence and secondary school. These include:

a guide to emotion coaching. Staff from The University of Melbourne’s Tuning in to Teens Kids program developed the guidance.
how to support your adolescent with their studies and more generally. Parenting expert and clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller helped develop this resource.

Subtitles for videos by The University of Melbourne on the webpage are available in 10 languages. You can select your preferred language on the translations page.

Schoolwide Positive Behaviour Supports

Reward System

SWPBS focuses on multi-tiered interventions to promote positive behaviours. As part of the approach to enabling a strong school culture which embodies our school values, we have put in place a whole school sticker rewards system.

Aim of the Reward System

At DPS we have implemented a reward system to reward positive behaviours that are necessary for promoting a positive and supportive school environment. These positive behaviours are based on our four values of Compassion, Resilience, Respect and Responsibility. Part of our reward system includes the handing out of stickers which are distributed by staff when the students are "caught" displaying one or more of the values.

Run Club

Our Friday Run Club has now journeyed over 760km! This is as far as Sydney to Byron Bay!

We are very proud of our amazing runners!