Wellbeing News 

In the first two weeks of school each class created a poster that represented their 2023 class. These posters have been put up in the quadrangle near the 5/6 communities classrooms. Please feel free to have a look if you haven’t already.  

The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)

This term all students across P-6 have focused on Topic 2: Personal Strengths. During this unit children and young people need a vocabulary to help them recognise and understand strengths and positive qualities in themselves and others. This topic provides learning activities to build this vocabulary and to use it when discussing personal, social and ethical challenges. Research in the field of positive psychology emphasises the importance of identifying and using individual strengths. Social and emotional learning programs that use strength-based approaches promote student wellbeing, positive behaviour and academic achievement. Focusing on strengths helps to improve students' wellbeing, behaviour and academic achievement.  We recognise that students need to be able to talk about their strengths and positive qualities in order to understand them. 

Students' goals have been to: 

• Talk about strengths and positive qualities
• recognise their own strengths and positive qualities
• recognise other people's strengths and positive qualities
• focus on strengths when discussing personal, social and ethical challenges.

Finally, I would like to thank you all for a wonderful start to the year. It has been so nice to seeing our students settling into their new classes. It has been lovely getting to know the St Michael's community more this term. I hope you and your families have a safe and relaxing holidays - they are well deserved! See you all in Term 2!