Positive Education
Melanie Sluyters
Our goal as a College is to ensure that all our students are able to flourish and be the best version of themselves, spiritually, emotionally and through good health. Underpinning all we do is the teachings of Jesus Christ and those of the Sisters of Charity but working closely alongside are the ideas and supports in place that are known as Positive Education. We believe as a College that our strong connections with our history and our work in Positive Education across the years has allowed, and is allowing our students to ‘Become - just not be’
At Mount Carmel College we have a rich history of supporting wellbeing and this is supported in our Wellbeing lessons right across the College. It is very rare in any school that the whole community can stop and use an allocated time (ours in Thursday morning) to recognise, celebrate and teach wellbeing with the framework of Positive Education. We see all we do as a journey, and with that journey in mind in all dedicated wellbeing lessons, as well as across all subject areas, we see the essential components of health, relationships, emotions, purpose and strengths guide us in the promotion of our wellbeing and good mental health.
Through conversations, teachings, engagement we as a community recognise the implicit teachings of wellbeing through how we are and how we as teachers and students conduct ourselves. We also celebrate the importance through wellbeing using explicit focuses through our policies, lessons, activities, extracurricular, restorative approach and planning.
If you have any questions about our focuses around wellbeing please just ask your child’s classroom or clan teacher, Head of House or Director of Primary. We would be more than happy to explain what it looks like for us at the College.
‘Wellbeing cannot exist just in your own head. Wellbeing is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.’
Dr. Martin Seligman
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