Wellbeing and Safety

Emotional Literacy

The Resilience Project is committed to teaching positive mental health strategies to prevent mental ill-health and build young people’s capacity to deal with adversity. As a school, we work in partnership with the Resilience Project and have a whole school focus on Empathy, Gratitude and Mindfulness.

Working on our emotional literacy gives us opportunities to develop our ability to understand and express different emotions. When we improve our emotional literacy, we can work towards recognising our own feelings and our ability to manage them. This allows us to cope with different life situations, such as managing conflict, making friends, coping in difficult situations and being resilient when dealing with change.

Whole Family Activity: Feelings Charades

• Gather together as a family, this might be around the dinner table, lounge room, around the fire outside.

• Take turns to act out a feeling or emotion. Use your face and body language to act this out, For example: Make an angry face and stamp your feet or

• Other family members need to guess the feeling/emotion.

• After someone has guessed the feeling/emotion, have family members discuss a time they have felt this way before and why. If it was a negative emotion, how did they overcome it?

Family Habit Builder:

Around the dinner table, ask everyone to share a feeling they felt during that day. Discuss how they dealt with that feeling and then discuss and share strategies you could use when faced with particular feelings.

Here is our next presentation from The Resilience Project all about Empathy and Kindness. 

Empathy is our ability to put ourselves in the shoes of others to feel and see what they do. We practice this through being kind and compassionate towards other people.

Brain imaging data shows that being kind to others registers in the brain as more like eating chocolate than like fulfilling an obligation to do what’s right (e.g., eating brussel sprouts) Research shows that practicing empathy, such as performing acts of kindness, taps into our brain’s ‘mirror neurons’, builds compassion and our behaviour becomes more social and community-based.

View Part 3 of the series where Hugh shares how being kind and putting yourself in someone else’s shoes can make you feel good as well as having a positive effect on others. 

https://theresilienceproject.com.au/2023-parent-carer-hub-inspire-hugh-martin/

NAPLAN 2023 UPDATE 

How will NAPLAN results be provided to schools?

As in previous years, Victorian schools will receive access to the VCAA Data Service to view their NAPLAN school summary and item level reports. The VCAA is currently updating the relevant suite of NAPLAN online reports to align and report against the new standards. Schools will also receive a detailed reporting user guide and reference materials relating to the introduction of proficiency standards for NAPLAN 2023 when results are released.

How will NAPLAN results be provided to students, parents, and carers?

Hard copies of student reports will continue to be distributed to all students who completed the NAPLAN 2023 tests. The individual reports will incorporate the four new proficiency standards, along with instructions for how to interpret the new achievement scale and student performance. The report will continue to show the national average and the range of achievement for the middle 60 per cent of students in their year level, allowing comparison of a child’s achievement against these measures.

Updated guidance materials, including FAQs, proficiency level summary statements and a new brochure, will be provided to assist parents and carers in understanding the reporting changes and the new NAPLAN standards.

In addition, for NAPLAN 2023, Victorian Year 9 students who achieve scores in the top proficiency standard (Exceeding) for reading and/or numeracy will be awarded a certificate of achievement. In future years, certificates will be broadened to account for student growth against the new standards.

When are NAPLAN results expected to be released?

In Victoria, NAPLAN 2023 school and individual student results are expected to be released by mid-late July 2023. Hard copy student reports will be distributed to schools in a NAPLAN 2023 reporting package.