Wellbeing
National Walk Safely to School Day
Friday 20th May is National Walk Safely to School day. Now in its 23rd year, the annual campaign encourages all primary school children, their parents and carers to walk safely and regularly to school. The event seeks to promote road safety, health, public transport and the environment. The objectives of National Walk Safely to School Day are:
- To encourage parents and carers to walk regularly with their children, all or part of the way to school.
- To promote the health benefits of walking and create regular walking habits.
- To help children develop vital road crossing skills and ensure children up to the age of 10 years hold an adult’s hand when crossing the road.
- To reduce car dependency and traffic congestion, especially around schools.
- To reduce the level of air pollution created by motor vehicles.
- To promote the use of public transport.
At SFS we will celebrate this day on Monday 23rd May. We encourage as many children as possible to walk to school or at least part of the way to school on this day. We will have 2 meeting points where we will have a walking school bus lead by some teachers. Parents can either drop their children off at this meeting point and walk to school with the staff or join the staff and walk to school with your children. When we arrive at school we will make our way to the school oval and do a lap of the oval. The two meeting points are:
- The Lynbrook Community Centre
- Figtree Reserve (corner of Alymer Rd and Waterbrush Crescent)
We will meet at these two points at 8 am and will be ready to leave by 8.10am.
Let’s get healthy together and walk to school!
SFS Twilight Market and Art show
We are eagerly anticipating our annual SFS Twilight Community market and Art Show which will be held on Thursday 3rd November from 5pm until 8pm. We are still looking for more stallholders particularly from our SFS school community. Get together with your family and come up with an idea of something you could make and sell at the market. For all enquiries or for an expression of interest form, please contact rlenko@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au
Lunchtime Lego club
We started a lunchtime lego club last week. This club is to help children who may need some extra support in developing their social skills such as how to make new friends, working co-operatively with others, making conversation with others and dealing with conflict. The class teachers will help identify which students would benefit from Lego club. We will continue in Term 3 so we will try to give as many children a turn who need some extra help with their social skills. Lego club runs on Tuesday at 2nd lunch. If you believe your child needs to develop their social skills, please speak to your child’s class teacher.
Upcoming Webinar for Parents Dr Justin Coulson presents:
Encouraging good behaviour
We have a membership with Parenting Ideas, one of Australia’s most trusted sources of parenting education and support. As part of this membership, all the parents and carers in our community can attend this webinar at no cost.
Discipline is one of the most confusing and challenging topics that parents grapple with. When you look up the word discipline in the dictionary the first definition is “punishment”. But this is a relatively new way of understanding the word. Until a couple of hundred years ago, to be disciplined meant to be shown a way to follow. This webinar, presented by Dr Justin Coulson is for every parent who has ever been so desperate to get their kids to ‘behave’ that they’ve tried Triple P, Super-Nanny, 1-2-3 Magic, and pretty much everything else out there, and still found themselves stuck. It explores the concept of discipline and how parents can encourage good behaviour in children. Key learning and discussion points include: • why the centuries-old strategies we still cling to should be left in the past • how we get discipline wrong and why • real world examples of discipline that are as imperfect as parents and their kids, but that still work • ideas for discipline that turn everything you thought you knew about the topic on its head • applicable strategies for everyone The webinar will be held on 8 June 2022 at 8-9 PM AEST.
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Positive Behaviours for Learning (PBL)
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) is an evidence-based framework that brings together the whole-school community to contribute to developing a positive, safe and supportive learning culture. The framework assists schools to improve social, emotional, behavioural and academic outcomes for children and young people.
When PBL is implemented well, teachers and students have more time to focus on relationships and classroom instruction. Students and staff benefit from:
- reduced inappropriate behaviour
- increased time focused on instruction
- improved social-emotional wellbeing
- positive and respectful relationships among students and staff
- support for teachers to teach, model and respond effectively to student need
- a predictable learning environment where staff and students know what is expected to deliver effective practices that can be sustained over time
We have just begun the PBL journey at SFS with a dedicated PBL team and whole school professional learning. We look forward to using this framework to improve student social skills which will also help our students with their academic achievements.
If you have any concerns about the wellbeing of your child, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Rachel Lenko
Student Wellbeing Leader
rlenko@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au