Wellbeing at QoP

Supporting your Child with Friendship Challenges

Children regularly face friendship challenges as they learn how to navigate friendships with others.

Friendships inevitably involve disagreements and personality clashes from time to time. It is important to teach your child how to handle these situations in a healthy manner.

Here are some tips that can help support your child's friendship with others, allowing them to embrace their friends in a polite and respectful manner.

Ride2School Drawing Competition

What a creative bunch of drawers we have at Q.O.P!

During Remote Learning children had the opportunity to enter the Ride2School competition.

Winners will be announced on the Ride2School Facebook page on Friday 25th June (facebook.com.au/Ride2School).

Here are some examples of the talent :-

Do's & Don'ts of Discipline Webinar

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Tuning in to Kids

Tuning in to Kids is an evidence-based parenting program to help parents build strong and healthy relationships with their kids. The program equips parents with skills to build emotional intelligence in children by using emotion coaching. Outcomes include improved parent confidence and positive changes in parent-child relationships. It is a free program for parents and carers of primary school children, delivered by Hobsons Bay City Council, Hobsons Bay UP, and Communities That Care Hobsons Bay.

The program runs online (via zoom) from 26 July - 6 Sept, from 10am-12pm weekly (7 weeks). To book CLICK HERE.

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School

Fact Sheet for Parents, Guardians and Carers.

Translation links:

Arabic

Chinese

Chinese Simplified

Dinka (voice recording)

Gratitude

Once again the resilience and positive attitude shown towards another remote learning experience has proven just how AMAZING and underestimated our children really are! Here are some of the things students were grateful for during the 2 weeks of lockdown.

Here are some more helpful tips to teach your kids how to feel grateful.

Action for Happiness

How can we find a greater sense of purpose and meaning? Being part of something bigger than ourselves - and focusing on the things we value - is vital for our wellbeing. So let's take time to reflect on what we care about this month and prioritise the things that matter.

You can also use their app to receive the daily calendar actions and join a supportive community putting these into practice. We also highly recommend listening to Josie's fantastic podcast for additional inspiration for how to put our May actions into practice.

Free online summit

We're excited to share this online summit on the Science and Wisdom of Emotions with some incredible speakers, including the Dalai Lama and several other friends of Action for Happiness. Please share this with others too.

Together, even when we're apart

10 Keys Groups: helping people stay connected online

Huge thanks to all the amazing volunteers who have been helping our community stay connected during these unusual times. It's been amazing to see thousands of people getting together online and supporting each other in local groups and using our monthly themes.

Join a group near you (or create one) here: www.actionforhappiness.org/groups

Upcoming Events:

We've got more fantastic events coming up. Do join us if you can!

Join us for an interactive 60 minute seminar that will explore the following:

The ongoing impact of COVID on our wellbeing, relationships and family functioning.
How to check in with yourself and loved ones when stress and anxiety arise.
Resilience and resources that can help guide us through challenging times
Practical strategies to use when worry is present for our children and selves.

Bookings need to be made via the Drummond Street website – details on the flyer below.

Tuesday 1 June 2021, 6pm-7:30pm