Wellbeing

SWPBS update

Congratulations to the students who achieved their individual value card goal last week!

Telling vs Dobbing

With our Excellence Upstander goal, we've been doing some work clarifying the difference between telling and dobbing. Students should use the No-Go-Tell process when they see problem behaviour. Telling is brave while dobbing can frustrate and embarrass your friends and classmates without need. 

Telling is... 

• about major problem behaviour where someone could or did get hurt, 
• when you already tried to deal with it yourself and it didn't work 
• and when you quietly tell a teacher

Dobbing is... 

• trying to get someone in trouble, 
• out loud in front of others
• and when you didn't already try to solve it yourself.

This is a complex idea and sometimes we get it wrong! We found the Bluey episode Swim School really helpful: https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-2/swim-school/ Why not watch it together at home and have a chat about it?

Wellbeing check-ins

The school is trialling a new Wellbeing check-in program called Skodel. Students log in and can select an emotion they're feeling, say what's causing it and leave a message for their teacher (about anything they'd like). It is a helpful tool which allows teachers to identify kids needing a little support, as well as a great forum for students to share problems or good news they otherwise might not.

Here is Grade 3-4's first check in summary data as an example.

Here is an example from another classroom of a message left for the teacher. As you can see, some very helpful information.