Student Wellbeing
Student Wellbeing encompasses the following areas: Student Engagement, Student Connectedness, Classroom Climates, Inclusion and Prevention to Intervention
Learning Diversity - Sally Lentini
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disability that affects the way people communicate and interact with the world. Characteristics generally appear in early childhood and will be present, in some form, for life.
Understanding autism
Around 1 in 100 Australians is autistic and 85% of the community has a personal connection with an autistic person. Autism affects the way individuals interact with others and how they experience the world around them. Every autistic person is different, which means that each person has unique strengths and challenges.
Autistic people may have:
- challenges with communicating and interacting with others
- repetitive and different behaviours, moving their bodies in different ways
- strong interest in one topic or subject
- unusual reactions to what they see, hear, smell, touch or taste
- preferences for routines and dislike change.
A different brilliant YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9badOhNwmw0
Student Wellbeing - Sally Lentini
Bullying
Bullying is not okay!
It is hurtful and can impact someone for a long time.
Remember no-one is ever alone. There are people you can talk to and things you can do tostop the bullying.
What is bullying?
It’s more than just a fight or disliking someone.
It is being mean to someone over and over again.
Bullying is ongoing or repeated misuse of power in relationships, with the intention to causedeliberate (on purpose) psychological harm. Bullying behaviours can be verbal, physical or social.
Bullying an happen anywhere -at home, with friends, online, in a group, or at school.
Types of Bullying
There are many types of bullying:
Verbal: name calling, teasing, putting someone down, threatening to cause someone harm
Physical -poking, hitting, punching, kicking, spitting, tripping, pushing, braking someone’s things, pulling faces, or making rude hand gestures.
Social -spreading rumours, playing horrible jokes, excluding, embarrassing someone inpublic,
Cyberbullying -using technology to hurt someone, sending hurtful messages, pictures orcomments.
Resource: Kids Helpline
St Fidelis has a bullying policy and here is the link to read our school Anti-Bullying policy.
YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbiMvkRgGJo
How to be an upstander.
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