We are safe and positive goal setters... 

Wellbeing: 'YOU CAN DO IT!' 

We are teaching the You Can Do It! curriculum throughout the whole school to help support  social, emotional and academic learning. This focusses on the idea that everyone can be successful at almost anything and that trying your hardest helps you to be successful. We teach about 5 "keys to success": confidence, persistence, getting along, resilience and organisation.  In semester 1 we have been learning about confidence, persistence, organisation, teamwork and getting along. We have met the characters: Charlie Confidence, Penny Persistence, Olivia Organisation and Gary Getting Along. 

In Term 3 the focus will be on resilience and happiness. Students will meet Rosie Resilience. 

In Term 4 the focus will be on social and emotional blockers, eg. worry, feeling down and not paying attention. Students will meet a range of blockers and be given a variety of strategies to over come these. 

To help the students to be resilient, we are teaching them 5 ways of thinking:

• I can do it!
• It’s okay to make mistakes when learning something new.
• It is good to be resilient.
• It’s OK to have 'green light' and 'red light' feelings.
• Using positive self-talk and staying calm is a powerful way to be resilient

Child Protection Curriculum 

In Semester 2 we will also be focussing on the Child Protection Curriculum as part of the Health Curriculum. All Mellor classes will be engaging with the Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum (KS:CPC) 

There are 2 main themes:

• We all have the right to be safe
• We can help ourselves to be safe by talking to people we trust

The four main focus areas are: 

The right to be safe

• feelings, being safe, warning signs, risk taking and emergencies

Relationships

• trust and networks, rights and responsibilities, use and abuse of power

Recognising and reporting abuse

• anatomical names of parts of the body, recognising abusive situations and secrets

Protective stratagies

• practising protective strategies, persistence. 
   

More information can be found on the DECD child protection curriculum site https://www.education.sa.gov.au/parents-and-families/curriculum-and-learning/early-years/keeping-safe-child-protection-curriculum-information-parents-and-carers

Goal Setting

Students will continue to be actively involved in setting their own learning goals with their parent(s) and teacher(s) this semester.  Conferences are scheduled to occur in weeks 4 and 5 virtually. By reflecting on their learning,  students set a personal, achievable goal, that is relevant to ‘the next step’ in their learning.

Please book in through Sentral if you have not already done so. 

Goals are based on  the Keys to Success (Organisation, Getting Along, Resilience, Persistence and Confidence) and are the core of all learning, regardless of subject area or year level.

Students will reflect and give feedback on whether they are achieving their goal and collect evidence of how they have met their goal.  They will seek and action feedback from peers and adults and be able to explain and show evidence of how feedback has enabled them to achieve their goal.

Individualised Learning

In a range of subjects students have learning tailored to their needs, allowing all studnets to access the learning, to feel and achieve success within activities. 

Personalised learning goals, such as reading goals, will continue this semester.  A variety of resources and materials linking to studnets current learning is available through the Mellor Google Classroom.