Enter the Wellbeing Zone

Welcome to the Wellbeing Zone. When you enter the zone, you will find a wealth of information about all the things happening in the Wellbeing space at Sunshine Heights PS as well as strategies, articles, book recommendations and events that will help build our dream and culture of Wellbeing throughout our school community, inside and outside of school, so that we can sail together through a universe of possibilities with all the emotional and social skills we need to thrive.

Know Yourself, Show Yourself, Grow Yourself Mental Health Festival Bookings Open

Get excited, our free public festival program goes live on Monday 21st February with bookings opening. We are proud as punch of our program, with over 50 different workshops on offer, with a little something for everyone! Workshops will be running all day from 8am, Monday 21st March to Thursday 24th March 2022.

Bookings are essential.

Get ready to go at 9AM on Monday 21st and pop by Eventbrite to book your know, show, grow experience!

Know Yourself, Show Yourself, Grow Yourself Mental Health Festival Community Block Party

We will finish off our mental health festival with an amazing Community Block Party on Friday 25th March. As it is Harmony Week, our amazing students will take to the stage and perform for the whole community for our Harmony Day celebrations. More information will be shared with families in the coming weeks.

For now, here's all the magic that will be happening at our block party!

On Friday 25th March, our community will come together to celebrate our uniqueness and wonder with a block party guaranteed to bring the magic. Sunshine Heights Primary School will be transformed into a universe filled with food trucks, performances and entertainment, experiences, creativity, a makers stands and community service booths.

On the main stage, you'll find our legendary MC - Greg Perkins from Big Childcare - bringing the hype. He'll be joined by guest speakers - the Mayor of Brimbank, Katie Hall MP and Sunshine Heights PS Principal David Cocks. The festival will launch with a traditional smoking ceremony, Welcome to Country and didge performance by a Wurundjeri elder, before launching into hours of endless entertainment featuring:

Our very own Sunshine Heights PS students flash mobbing en masse for Harmony Day

Local Sunshine sisters, 2ndGlance

Florence's community choir

Sunshine College's Band

Inkrewsive Hip Hop Crew

DJ Joey Lightbulb

And a very special guest appearance from Big Childcare's Mike the Monster

Around the stage, you'll find roving performances from Balloonatic Bruce, Princess on Skates, Ricky Resilient and Big Childcare's Mike the Monster.

But that's not all - there'll be interactive art installations, a whole lotta games from Big Active, a compliments stand to bring the good feels, a photo booth so the memories will never fade, some epic inflatables, art making and face painting too! And we'll have LIVE FM broadcasting live with student-created and driven content that will capture all the good vibes.

Did we mention there'd be a lot of food? We've got a stellar line up of local foodies ready to serve up a delicious assault on your tastebuds. Our food truck line up includes -

MarsTown

Ama's Delights

Sweet Forbidden Journey

Mr Fresh Truck's Gelati & Icecream

Kilted Haggis

Flaming Wheels Taste of Malaysia

Bboy's Filipino BBQ

Sunny Heights Sausage Sizzle

We can't have you eating in silence though, can we? Don't worry about that, we've got DJ Nashuan serving up the groovalicious beats while you eat. There'll be plenty of space at the oval for you to get the groove in your heart and your feet, or take a seat at the chill zone.

There'll be a Makers Space brimming with local makers, creators and artisans selling it all - diversity books, sensory toys, handmade facial products and scents, jewellery and tees, crocheted buntings, flowers and much more! We'll even have our very own merch stand there too, so you can snare yourself a Know, Show, Grow tee to mark the memories.

Most important of all, there'll be an abundance of community services at the Community Space so you can come find out what supports are out there, how you access them and what a community support eco-system looks like.

We can't wait to journey with you as you know yourself, show yourself and grow yoursself.

Don't forget to follow us on socials @knowshowgrowfestival for all the good vibes leading up to the festival.

Volunteers Needed

Do you have some spare time over the next month to volunteer for the Mental Health Festival? We have a range of tasks that we need support with -

Promotions (getting flyers and posters out into the community)
Helping create signage
Packing showbags
Contacting community radio and newspapers for coverage
Organising donations
Hosting a sausage sizzle at the block party
Covid marshals
Volunteering at events to assist facilitators

... and a whole heap more!

Got time? Get in touch by emailing Francine.Sculli@education.vic.gov.au

2022 Partnerships with La Trobe University & VU

We are very excited to be continuing our partnerships with La Trobe University throughout 2022. In Term 2, we will be getting more students from across allied health services - Social Work, OT and Art Therapy - to continue to enrich the supports we are able to offer students and families.

This year, we have also developed a new partnership with Victoria University, which we are very excited about. This term, we welcome Chloe - a Community Development student, and Max - a Youth Work student. They will be getting hands on with our festival as well engaging with the students and community.

Please give them a warm welcome if you see them around!

Students Co-Creating Festival

We are super excited to see the flurry of excitement around the mental health festival spread across the school this week. Students across the school have been sharing their voice - discussing the issues impacting young people, exploring what is needed to be a community, and brainstorming different ways they want to address that through the festival week. The ideas are flying high and we couldn't be prouder to have our students authentically co-creating experiences that mean something to them across the mental health festival week.

Prep Health Questionnaires

If you are yet to return your prep health questionnaire, this is a friendly reminder that they are now due. Please complete and return to the office as soon as possible!

This questionnaire goes out to all students across Victorian school's and helps gather important information around your child's health that enables schools to provide targeted support to students through the School Nurse service. Questionnaires are entirely confidential and are returned sealed to the school and delivered directly to our amazing school nurse, Melissa.

Once all questionnaires are returned, Melissa will contact parents to discuss their concerns and responses from the questionnaires, visit the school to conduct health checks for our prep students, and provide important referrals for those who need it.

It's an amazing service, and one we value to ensure the health and wellbeing of our youngest community members.

To learn more about the School Nurse Program, please visit - https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/victorian-school-nursing-program/advice

If you have any questions about the questionnaires or need assistance to complete them, please contact Francine at Francine.Sculli@education.vic.gov.au

Community Opportunities

There are so many amazing events happening in Brimbank over the next few months, and the legends over at Creative Brimbank have put together this great events booklets to let the community know all about them! Our little festival also features in it. Woohoo.

Need to reach me?

To discuss anything Wellbeing related, feel free to contact me via email or the school phone number!

EMAIL - Francine.Sculli@education.vic.gov.au PHONE - 8311 7100

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