From the Office 

Positive Education Focus

 Wellbeing Element: Exercise and Health

Character Strength: Hope

Wellbeing Fitness Challenge: Adventure, Eat

Wellbeing Reflection Activity: Out and About

A balanced student lifestyle places an equal emphasis on all of their elements of wellbeing; they work together, like their signature and top supporting strengths as a family, to build the student’s wellbeing. To ignore any of these, adversely affects the others. If the skills and achievement element is pushed too hard and the exercise and health element is not also focused on. 

Active and positive people are more likely to achieve what they set out to do and are healthier. Recommendation are that each students’ personal timetables should include: 

• an hour of pulse lifting exercise every day 
• quality outdoor leisure activities with friends and family which are light and bright 
• frequent opportunities to have fun and laugh with others to experience positive emotions 
• plenty of timeout from electronic pursuits; try brain leisure activities such as reading, chess, board games cards, or Sudoku. 

Exercise and Leisure activities will enable you to: 

• lift your heart rate to burn excess kilos

• enjoy uplifting spirals of positive emotions

• be in charge of your breathing 

• provide relationship building time with others

• clear your mind with private me time.

Some quality ones include:

• a brisk walk, run, swim, bike ride, yoga, playing a sport, aerobics, pilates, gym workout, tai chi, zumba, dancing, gymnastics, resistance training, surfing, skateboarding or bushwalking.

Three words to consider for self-improvement and success: ‘Care, Share and Dare’

Facilities Report

Last week we attended the first Facilities meeting of the year and very much enjoyed a quick tour of the new Senior School building and then moved onto discussing exciting projects for the upcoming year. 

With the planning of new STEM Centre, installation of sails on the oval tiers and continual improvement of the PAC and several smaller planned projects there is a real sense of moving forwards. 

Recent works have included:

-repairing roof leaks

-providing air circulation to the Food Prep area

-installation of new A/C in server room

-Hall toilet improvements

Please contact the Facilities Department at school if you would like to be on the Facilities Committee. 

Chris Salisbury

Facilities Manager

Deakin University Intern 

As part of this school’s ongoing commitment to the induction and development of new teachers, we are pleased to welcome Luke Di Venere to the school. Luke is completing a Master of Teaching at Deakin University and has completed all theoretical and professional experience requirements to become a provisionally registered teacher with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and has chosen to commence his teaching career as an Intern. 

Luke will be working under the general supervision and expert guidance of Karly Horton and Hannah Werheim who will act as mentor/s, advising and assisting Luke to plan, prepare and take on the responsibilities of a teacher in the school over a period of 10 weeks.

 We hope that you will make him feel welcome!