Pastoral Care and Wellbeing
Term 4 Reminders
- Please remember your hats and ensure you have it with you at all times during Term 4 so it is available when you are open spaces.
- Bring your water bottle:
- Familiarise yourself with our SWPBS Matrix to continue our positive behaviours to enhance everyone’s experience and ensure we get the most out of all opportunities.
- Please remember your masks.
Final Week for Year 12's
It has been a pleasure and a privilege to share the educational journey with our Year 12 students. We thank our Year 12's for their contributions and efforts, and wish them every success for the future. Our Year 12 students are a credit to our school, their families and themselves.
We are so proud of you Year 12s! Best wishes for your exams and beyond!
Some advice for exam preparation (School TV)
Setting a schedule is vitally important. Students need to schedule everything from sleeping and eating, to studying and exercising. It is one of the best ways to manage inevitable exam stress. Students need to look after themselves when they have big demands in their life.
When it comes to productive study, sometimes less is often more. It is recommended that students hit the books in 50-minute stints, broken up by 15-minute breaks. This gives the brain, and body, a rest. Adolescents will often underestimate the amount of sleep they need. Getting enough sleep is key to successful study practices.
Research shows that physical activity also has a very positive impact on mental wellbeing. Eating well is another crucial factor to maintaining concentration and staying focussed on the task ahead.
For further information, video clips, advice and resources, please check out School TV, available via the link below, our website or through PAM.
Cybersafety and Cyberbullying (information from eSafety Commissioner - esafety.gov.au)
Talk about cyberbullying before it happens and discuss strategies that you are both comfortable with, so they know what to expect if they do report concerns to you.
Encourage them to use privacy settings on social networking sites and restrict online information to viewing by friends only, and to be careful about who they accept as friends.
Recommend that they avoid responding to negative messages and actively block and report abusive people to social media services or website administrators. Encourage them to tell you, or another trusted adult, about such incidents and to take screenshots of negative messages for reporting. Hold the saved messages for them so they don’t have to view them again.
Make sure they are aware of the advice about cyberbullying particularly targeted at young people.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact the Pastoral Support Team at St Joseph’s College on wellbeing@sje.vic.edu.au or access supports listed below:
If your student is feeling overwhelmed or has questions or concerns, please contact their Learning Mentor, House Leader or a member of the Wellbeing Team.