Wellbeing

Attendance Matters

Getting to school on time each day is an extremely important part of each child's education. Here at Wollert we love seeing the smiling faces each morning as they greet friends in the yard, or get excited to start their day. 

Making sure that your child gets to school on time each day can have a huge impact on their learning as well as on social outcomes. Missing 5 minutes of school a day results in 3 lost days of schooling across a year. 

When children are sick and need to stay home, then they need to rest. We support this notion fully and know that at times students may need a day off due to illness, however if they are well, then they need to be at school every day, with our fantastic teachers and students to experience the Joy, Curiosity, Brilliance and Kindness that Wollert Primary School has to offer. 

Congratulations to our 100% attendance superstars who have been present for every day this year. 

Achyut Bhatti

Emma Caddle

Elissa Ravanbakhsh

SWPBS Update at Wollert

SWPBS Stands for School Wide Positive Behaviour Support and is something that we live by at Wollert. One of the aspects of SWPBS is praising students when they do the right thing. An added component to this that our staff are striving for is to add the specific thing that the student is doing to help with reinforcing the behaviour.  Something that we are trying to do at the moment is 'three part praise'. 

Three part praise means adding the school value as well as the thing the child is doing, followed by 'that's the Wollert Way'. An example of this is "I love how you're being curious and reading about something different today, that's the Wollert Way". One of the things that we are also trying to increase is the use of positive praise in our every day teaching. This may even link to home where a child acknowledge what is the 'Wollert Way' or you hear them using our language of the values. Research is shown to have had a positive effect on behaviour improving when children know what they have done right, which means that they are more likely to repeat the behaviour. 

Fostering Healthy Friendships

Coming to school and taking part in learning and playtime with friends is one of most enjoyable parts of each day when students enter the school grounds. As students continue through schooling, friendships can strengthen or they can wane depending on what they want to play. 

Friendships and the complexities that come along with them can also provide challenges. If your child comes home with a friendship problem, something that can help them is talking through the scenario with them. Taking the time to unpack the situation with children and giving them pointers on how to speak kindly to their friends, or how to play a certain game is always beneficial and can support children to play together, whether at home, or here at school.