Engagement & Wellbeing
Respectful Relationships
Grade 1/2 Crawford students have been learning about managing angry feelings during their Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationship lessons. They have learnt that there are hurtful ways to show anger and helpful ways to cope with angry feelings.
1/2 Crawford students practised 3 great strategies for controlling anger. See the details of each strategy below.
Strategy 1. Balloon Breathing
Tilly W - ‘ Balloon breathing is when you take in a deep breath and then blow out slowly like you’re blowing up a balloon.’
Strategy 2. Pressing Your Hands Together
Delainey G - ‘ This strategy is the palm press, where you press your palms together as hard as you can to let the anger out of you. Then slowly let go.’
Strategy 3. Counting
Slowly count to 10. As you do, imagine you are taking control of your anger. You are in charge, not your angry feelings.
James P - ‘ I use the count to 10 strategy when my sisters annoy me’.
School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS)
The SWPBS team and all staff and students are celebrating the awesome work everyone has done this year improving behaviours at our school. In our last edition of the newsletter, we shared some graphs displaying data and behaviours that each class is working hard on improving.
This semester, behaviour in our classrooms will be a focus across the school with regular discussions around how best we can show our School Values while we work and play. We would encourage all families in our school community to support us with helping their children by taking a moment to have a look at our SWPBS display board which is located outside the Art room, near The Hub play area.
The pictures above show the location of our SWPBS focus board and we encourage all families to continue to familiarise themselves with our focus each term to support the continued improvement in behaviours inside our classrooms and outside in the school yard. Any follow up conversations at home are greatly appreciated. This board also shows our new 'Stop Routine', which is being taught in all classrooms to support students with their problem solving.
SRC Update
Dear Community,
Thank-you to everyone for supporting the SRC initiatives this term. Unfortunately, the weather stopped us from running our first Gaming Club session last week. Rest assured, we'll be looking to get this up and running for Term 4!
Enjoy the holidays everyone!
Hats are Back!
As a proud SunSmart school, students will be asked to wear broad-brimmed hats or bucket hats outside from next week. Although it may not feel like hat weather, UV levels can still be damaging on cool, cloudy days. Students without an appropriate hat will be asked to use shaded areas or suitable areas protected from the sun.
Too much of the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation can cause sunburn, skin and eye damage and skin cancer. UV damage accumulated during childhood and adolescence is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer later in life. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Australia. It is also one of the most preventable cancers. You can’t see or feel the sun’s UV. Whatever the weather, if the UV levels are three or more, it’s important to Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide!
Hats may be purchased from our uniform supplier, Noone.
Noone's hours are Monday to Friday 9 am-5 pm and Saturday 9 am-12 pm.
Noone
21 Queen Street
Bendigo Victoria 3550
Phone: 03 7018 4199
Email: Bendigo@noone.com.au
