Student Well-being 

Year 5/6 Community

This term in Wellbeing, students in the Year 5/6 community have been learning about ‘help-seeking’ through the Respectful Relationships unit. Children can experience all kinds of challenges as they grow and develop. The help-seeking behaviours of children are fundamental to their mental health and wellbeing. Encouraging and fostering help-seeking behaviours is one way to improve mental health and wellbeing.

From this Wellbeing unit, students have developed an understanding of:

• When to seek help, especially when the problem becomes bigger than what they can solve independently.
• Who they can seek help from and trust to help them, using their support networks (peers, family, teacher, etc…)
• How they can ask for help using  ‘help-seeking’ stems

Below are photos of their thoughts, work and the question stems they used when acting out help-seeking scenarios and their back-to-back drawing communication activity. Through these activities, students learnt about help-seeking avenues and developed their confidence to seek help from an appropriate source.

Lauren Borg

Student Wellbeing Leader