Wellbeing/Be You
Wellbeing Officer – Mrs Jess Patane
Wellbeing is integral to teaching and learning in the Primary Years Program (PYP) and the Victorian Curriculum and is exemplified in the PYP Learner Profile.
Beaumaris North Primary School has whole school wellbeing strategies and programs for students, staff and parents. Together these strategies create a harmonious, respectful and supportive school environment for all community members. Beaumaris North Primary School strongly believes that positive relationships and connection is a key aspect of students willingness to engage, learn and thrive at school.
The Wellbeing Officer also:
- Promotes the Wellbeing Curriculum (e.g. The Resilience Project, Learner Profile Attributes, wellbeing themed weeks) and work closely with the Wellbeing Captains
- Promotes a Child Safe environment and ensures this is embedded in our school
- Monitors student engagement and wellbeing across the school
- Reviews and updates all wellbeing-related policies (e.g. Student and Engagement Policy, Bullying Prevention Policy)
- Supports the parent community by providing resources, webinars, tip sheets and workshops via Compass and the School Newsletter
- Liaises with outside school agencies.
If you have concerns about your child’s wellbeing, your child’s classroom teacher is always the first point of call in providing feedback and support about things that may assist your child further.
Disability and Inclusion Leader – Mrs Sheridan Duffy-Fainu’u
Our Disability Inclusion Leader, Sheridan Duffy-Fainu’u has a great passion for wellbeing and providing strategies to support students to grow and thrive, despite any barriers. Sheridan has completed further studies in the areas of Disability and Wellbeing.
Sheridan ensures our students with additional needs are engaged in education and meeting their learning goals. To do this, she works collaboratively with the school’s leadership team, wellbeing staff and allied health team and other services involved with a student outside of school. Sheridan will play a key role in coordinating the team around the learner.
The Disability Inclusion Leader can play a key role in the school’s transition to Disability Inclusion. This can include supporting the organisation of Disability Inclusion Profile meetings, supporting teachers to identify students who may benefit from a profile meeting. Also supporting school leadership to use Disability Inclusion funding to resource evidence based reasonable adjustments, for individual students and cohorts of students.
