Student Wellbeing 

CASEA Program

This term a select group of grade 3 students have participated in the CASEA program. This program was developed by the Royal Children’s Hospital and focuses on developing students social skills, problem solving abilities, and team work. Over the course of the program the students were presented with different scenarios that required clear communication, strategic thinking, and overcoming setbacks. In the photo attached the students are presenting their ‘Stop, Think, Do’ traffic lights, which is a problem solving technique taught to them during the program. The students have shown huge growth in all of the above mentioned skill sets, and we look forward to hearing about how they have remodeled these skills in their classroom.

Reading Groups with School Speech Pathologist

This term, 8 students from Year 2 have been selected to work with the school speech pathologist to improve their reading skills. Students meet the speech pathologist 3 times a week to improve their blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation skills. The sessions have also had a focus on explicitly teaching students the essential knowledge for decoding at the word level. Students learn that letters are symbols (spellings) that represent sounds, that a sound can be spelled by 1, 2, 3, or 4 letters, that the same sound can be spelled in more than one way and that many spellings can represent more than one sound. The speech pathologist has been using a multisensory approach to support the learning of the written code. The selected students will continue receiving intervention with the speech pathologist until the end of Term 3.