Wellbeing News
Mrs Charlotte Allan
SRC
Yesterday we held our first SRC meeting. Our focus was working together to create an advertisement for our Family Maths Night. We are looking forward to sharing the advertisement very soon.
SMASH Expectations
At St.Michael's we are a Positive Behaviour for Learning school (PBL). We have a set of whole school expectations that our community follows to be the best learners we can be. The acronym is SMASH. Our SMASH expectation focuses for the Term are as follows
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4 | Make a difference outside being respectful of all, wherever you are |
5 | Make a difference outside being respectful of all, wherever you are |
6 | Make a difference in community spaces by representing our community with pride |
7 | Make a difference in transition spaces by modelling appropriate behaviour |
8 | Stay Safe in classroom spaces by keeping our hands, feet and objects to ourselves. |
9 | Stay Safe in classroom spaces by keeping our hands, feet and objects to ourselves. |
10 | Revision of ACT RESPONSIBLE, MAKE A DIFFERENCE and STAY SAFE Expectations |
Student Wellbeing News
National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
This year the NDA is on Friday 18th August the theme is We will use this week to create a shared understanding of what bullying is and ensure our community understands that we all have a role to play to prevent bullying. We will be creating a whole school display showcasing how we can connect with others to prevent bullying.
I would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to our School Anti Bullying Policy this policy outlines the preventative measures we put in place and also defines the variety of categories of bullying.
We take the term 'bullying' very seriously. Please ensure you are aware of what it is and also what it is not, so that we are working together to support our students. I have included an except from our policy.
What Bullying is not
Many distressing behaviours are not examples of bullying, even though they are unpleasant and often require teacher intervention and management. There are three socially unpleasant situations that are often confused with bullying including:
• Mutual conflict: In mutual conflict situations, there is an argument or disagreement between students but not an imbalance of power. Both parties are upset and usually both want a resolution to the problem. However, unresolved mutual conflict sometimes develops into a bullying situation, with one person becoming targeted repeatedly for ‘retaliation’ in a one-sided way.
• Social rejection or dislike: Unless the social rejection is directed towards someone specifically and involves deliberate and repeated attempts to cause distress, exclude or create dislike by others, it is not bullying.
• Single-episode acts: Single episodes of nastiness or physical aggression are not the same as bullying. If a student is verbally abused or pushed on one occasion they are not being bullied. Nastiness or physical aggression that is directed towards many different students is not the same as bullying.
Please reach out if I can support in any way callan@smashburton.catholic.edu.au