From the Wellbeing Deputy

Week 6 Friday 30 August Father’s Day: Dad’s Drop Off Breakfast: 

We are looking forward to welcoming dads and special friends to our Father’s Day breakfast event from 8-8:45am under the COLA this Friday morning. Tickets are available through QKR to purchase an egg and bacon roll (vegetarian option available), tea/coffee for Dad and juice box for your child/ren for $5. Ticket sales close this afternoon. 

If you are a registered volunteer and would like to volunteer to help at this event, please get in touch with Bec Mattner rmattner@stpaulba.sa.edu.au 

Happy Families: Justin Coulson

Dr Justin Coulson’s Happy Families Subscription

As part of a partnership with our Connected Schools Community, St Paul is subscribed to the Happy Families School Membership. Owned and run by Dr Justin Coulson, one of Australia’s leading parenting experts, the membership offers a wealth of parenting education and resources.

Use the login below to access Insights Articles and Webinars available to our school community.

This week’s article is: The quest for independence and identity 

Other articles this term include:

Getting along with siblings, Parenting with influence, not control, The power of perspective, Stop, Look, and Listen to Your Kids.

This week’s webinar Highlight is ‘Boys & Screens’ 

A summary of this webinar is here: In the past ten years, screens have completely upended the way we raise our children. Screens are everywhere. All the time. Social media has taken over our lives and the lives of our kids. 97% if kids are gaming. And the Internet has brought new kinds of risks into our children's lives at earlier and earlier ages.

Screens affect our boys and our girls differently. Boys are caught up in a gaming industry with hundreds of billions of dollars each year. It creates contention in our home as sleeplessness combines with dishonesty, aggression, competitiveness, and the never ending desire for "one more game."

Boys' online lives are complicated even more by the growth in gambling among tween and teen boys, and the continued rise of pornography. What can we do to help our boys manage their screen time, and manage the content they're exposed to, in safe, healthy ways?

Join Dr Justin Coulson for the webinar that will answer your questions. You can find this webinar by searching Boys and Screens once logged into the link below.

All articles and webinars can be accessed through: 

St Paul Login: 

Password: happyspls

Open Parachute: Free Webinar

Supporting Your Child's Wellbeing During and After Parental Separation

Co-Parenting Companion Clinical Psychologist Tiffany Rochester will arm parents with simple techniques and strategies to improve co-parenting, communicate with their child, and provide actionable tips to help safeguard their children’s emotional and psychological wellbeing during and after separation. 

Register your attendance for Tuesday, 3 September 2024 via the QR Code on the flyer.

Chapel Hosts:

Please feel welcome to join us for worship each Wednesday morning this term at 9am in the Church. This term we will be exploring the theme: ‘Friends of the Bible’. Thank you to Mrs Mattner for leading us this morning. 

Our hosts for the remainder of this term will be:

Week 7: Mr Buxton

Week 8: 3 Fisher

Week 9: Endeavour Ministry Team

Week 10: Pastor Matt 

Assembly Hosts:

Thank you to everyone who came out to be a part of our wonderful Book Week Costume Parade last week. Thank you as well to all involved in the planning of this great community event. The Assembly hosts for the remainder of the term are:

Week 6: SPLASH

Week 7: No Assembly- Learning Conversations Pupil Free Day

Week 8: No Assembly 

Week 9: 5 Woodward

Week 10: No Assembly- Concert Week