Student Wellbeing
Student Wellbeing encompasses the following areas: Student Engagement, Student Connectedness, Classroom Climates, Inclusion and Prevention to Intervention
Wellbeing can be defined as a complex combination of a person's physical, mental, emotional and social health. Community is at the heart of student wellbeing at St Fidelis School, it is the fabric of our school culture, and it is built on the firm belief that everyone belongs and that everyone has something valuable to contribute.
At St Fidelis School we work hard to ensure that our children, families and staff feel connected to the St Fidelis community. It is important for our students to learn conflict resolution.
Ways to solve a problem at school
Positive Ways to resolve a problem
- Trying to solve the problem
- Staying calm: calm words, calm actions and low volume
- Taking responsibility for your part
- Accept genuine apologies-say thank you for apologising
- Showing respect
- Getting help from an adult if you have tried to solve the problem and it hasn’t work
- Showing concern for others’ wellbeing
Negative response to solving a problem
- Continuing or escalating the problem
- Not taking responsibility, blaming others
- Losing your cool, overreacting and being aggressive: invading personal space, swearing, yelling, violence
- Showing disrespect: sarcasm, sass, attitude, talking back
- Not caring for others’ wellbeing: making it personal, insults, put downs, ganging up
- Allowing the problem to escalate (get bigger)
- Holding a grudge
If, as a society today, we promote a blame/victim approach to life, our adults of the future will continue to portray this same approach to their life and teach it to future generations.
Whereas…… If we promote a community of people who take responsibility for their own behaviours and ways of managing their own challenges in life, our adults of the future will continue to portray this approach to their life.
Tan Curtis