Leadership Report
Michelle Carland - Engagement,Wellbeing and Inclusion Leader
Gratitude
Working on gratitude helps us to be thankful and appreciate what we have in our lives, rather than focusing on what we don’t have or what we want. When we practise being grateful, we start to scan the world to look for positives – this only takes 21 days! Practising gratitude every day increases our levels of energy, helps us to feel happier and more focused, determined and optimistic. It even helps us have a better sleep, lowers levels of anxiety and depression and we are less likely to get sick. So many benefits – let’s all try to be grateful for the things and people in our lives every day!
Whole Family Activity:
Gratitude Scavenger Hunt
- As a family create a scavenger hunt list of things that make you happy or you are grateful for, you can make your own list or use the examples below:
- Something that makes you happy
- Something you love to smell
- Something you enjoy looking at
- Something that is your favourite colour
- Something you like in nature
- Something that is useful for you
• Each member of the family uses the list, and has to find as many things as they can.
• You can hunt for things inside or outside, or both. You can hunt for real things, or you can also do this using magazines or pictures from the internet.
• After a set amount of time hunting, come back together, have a look at what each person collected and let them explain why they are grateful for each item.
Family Habit Builder:
Every night at dinner, have each person talk about their favourite thing about that day.
For access to The Resilience Project Parent Carer Hub, click on the following link:
https://theresilienceproject.com.au/2023-parent-carer-hub-inspire-hugh/
Kind regards,Michelle Carland
Engagement, Wellbeing and Inclusion Leading Teacher
Numeracy Update from Learning Specialist
After attending the professional development session led by renowned maths guru, Peter Sullivan, all staff at Merri-bek Primary School have been introducing fun and engaging open ended tasks in numeracy across all year levels. His innovative and engaging lessons are inspiring our teachers and students. The practical insights and techniques shared by Peter Sullivan have energised our school, and we look forward to implementing these new approaches more and more to enhance student learning and foster a deeper understanding of mathematics through the foundation to year six curriculum.
In addition to the Peter Sullivan professional learning, I attended a Love Maths Conference with industry leaders focusing on a range of numeracy areas. This was a great opportunity to network with other schools and share resources for potential lessons and games we can incorporate into our weekly numeracy planning. For those who are not familiar with Love Maths, it is a online resource that provides quality and engaging games for students of all year levels in all mathematically curriculum areas. It gives easy to understand video tutorials on how to play the games and different teaching strategies. Feel free to check it out and tell me what your favourite game is!
https://www.lovemaths.me/games
Joseph Hess
Acting Maths Learning Special