Student Wellbeing

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD)

 

The members of Galilee’s Inclusion Team have been attending Professional Development in relation to the NCCD and are now beginning the process of collecting the relevant data about our students who have received additional support in the past 10 weeks of 2018.

While we have been doing this for the past 4 years, this year the Government has changed the way they will be allocating funding to schools and it is imperative that our data is accurate to reflect the number of students who currently receive additional support at Galilee. This will allow us to receive the optimum funding we need to retain the staff we currently employ and the intervention programs we provide.

 

Please read the information and if you would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Julianne Price

Student Wellbeing /Student Service Leader

Ph: 9699 2928

email: jprice@gsmelbournesth.catholic.edu.au

A reminder Dental forms will need to be handed to your child's class teacher by Tuesday morning. 

In May 2015, Carrie Bickmore won the prestigious Gold Logie at the TV Week Logie awards, which she dedicated to her late husband Greg who passed away five years earlier following a 10-year battle with brain cancer. Carrie went on to form Carrie's Beanies 4 Brain Cancer Foundation, which aims to raise desperately needed funds towards research into the horrible disease that is brain cancer.

 

In a snap shot –

  • Currently there is no cure.
  • 1,600 Australians are diagnosed with brain cancer each year and around 80% will die - these are fathers, mothers, children, brothers, sisters and friends.
  • Brain cancer kills more children in this country than ANY other disease.
  • Survival rates haven’t changed in 30 years.
  • Brain cancer kills more people under the age of 40 than any other cancer.
  • One Australian is diagnosed with brain cancer every 5 hours.

 

Survival rates need to increase and the only way to achieve this is through vital research. Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer has raised over $4.5 million so far. 

 

Whilst it is only a drop in the ocean when it comes to the amount of funding needed for brain cancer research, it’s a huge step in the right direction.

Brain cancer sufferers, their families and the incredible scientists working towards a cure for brain cancer are extremely grateful for the generosity and support they receive and believe together they can make a difference and stop other families from losing someone they love to brain cancer.  

 

A ’BIG’ thank you to the students, staff (many who also bought Carrie’s beanies as well) and parents who generously supported our fundraiser towards this worthy cause  - we raised $700, which will be sent on to the Foundation.

 

Julianne Price

Student Wellbeing /Student Service Leader

Ph: 9699 2928

email: jprice@gsmelbournesth.catholic.edu.au

Annual Report to the Community - Student Wellbeing Sphere

Some of our achievements in this sphere include:

A school closure day was held to focus on BSEM and promoted the use of strategies,

activities and language in the classroom. This encouraged teachers to use a calming,

positive approach with their students to promote confident, independent learners.

Parents/carers/teachers were invited to a Parent Session on ‘Positive Parenting’

facilitated by Patrice Wiseman (CEM). Patrice worked with Prep teachers to implement

positive behaviour classroom strategies.

A school psychologist from onPsych was introduced to Galilee to support students and parents experiencing anxiety/stress/behavioural difficulties.

A PSEL Checklist to assess the PSEL Capabilities and help monitor the students’ progress in this area was developed.

A Pastoral Care Policy was developed that outlines a more consistent approach to

Behaviour Management.

Applied for and received funding to introduce the Respectful Relationships Framework Initiative to Galilee and formed a partnership with Firbank Girls' Grammar School.

Security cameras were upgraded to ensure that all students can be more effectively monitored on the yard and in sick bay and netting was introduced to improve student safety on the playground.

Outside agencies were employed to work with Year 5 students to build leadership

capacity using the following programs: Peer Mediation and Speak With Power.