Principal's Report
School Assembly Next week Friday the 29th
Badge presentations
School Jacket presentations
Respectful Relationships
An important part of our school wellbeing and development of interpersonal skills is Respectful Relationships.
The Royal Commission into Family Violence identified the critical role that schools and early childhood education have in creating a culture of respect to change the story of family violence for future generations. In 2016, respectful relationships education became a core component of the Victorian Curriculum from foundation to year 12, and is being taught in all government and Catholic schools and many independent schools.
Everyone in our community deserves to be respected, valued and treated equally. We know that changes in attitudes and behaviours can be achieved when positive attitudes, behaviours and equality are embedded in our education settings.
Respectful Relationships is about embedding a culture of respect and equality across our entire community, from our classrooms to staffrooms, sporting fields, fetes and social events. This approach leads to positive impacts on student’s academic outcomes, their mental health, classroom behaviour, and relationships between teachers and students.
The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) learning materials cover eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across all levels of primary and secondary education.
These include:
1. Emotional Literacy
2. Personal Strengths
3. Positive Coping
4. Problem Solving
5. Stress Management
6. Help-seeking
7. Gender and Identity
8. Positive Gender Relations
The aim to promote a healthy community of students is to develop:
• Understand and manage emotions
• Set and achieve positive goals
• Feel and express empathy
• Establish and maintain positive relationships
• Make responsible decisions
• Develop resilience to deal with change
• Create positive gender norms
• Contribute to social cohesion.
Respectful Relationships is taught from Foundation to Year 6. It is about members of the school community understanding the way that people are treated and how we need to treat each other in order to have a safe and respectful community.
Harmony Day - Thursday 21st March
This Thursday we celebrate Harmony Day. Orange is the colour chosen to represent Harmony Week. Traditionally, orange signifies social communication and meaningful conversations. It also relates to the freedom of ideas and encouragement of mutual respect. Students can choose to wear something orange on Thursday to show their support for cultural diversity and an inclusive Australia. Classess will also be able to share a few snacks from around the world in their classes.
Have a great week everyone.
Tabitha