Welcome back to another jam packed year of learning, excitement and fun!

On Tuesday 2nd February, years Prep - 6  were lucky to be entertained by Laura and Jordan from the ‘Playground Craze - Popstars for the primary school’. The performances engage students with important social-emotional skills, covering topics such as confidence, resilience, kindness, persistence, friendship and cooperation. The messages help students strengthen self-awareness and self-management of the personal and social skills encouraged in the curriculum. The children had a lot of fun singing and dancing along whilst thinking about the importance of identifying emotions and learning that we can ‘choose to be happy’. This was a fantastic start to the Term 1 inquiry and wellbeing focus of understanding diversity and being inclusive of others.  If you would like to listen to the songs with your child/children you can find them on Spotify if you search ‘The Playground Craze’ or head to their website to find video clips and music.

https://www.theplaygroundcraze.com/music-and-videos/

This term students in years one to four will be completing the URSTRONG Friendology program which is a series of sequential sessions that inspire children to feel empowered, develop a strong sense of self, and love themselves while learning to manage the most important thing to them….their friendships. URSTRONG is an internationally recognised friendship program that gives children the language, skills and self confidence to be better friends and develop healthier relationships. Year 6  students will be part of a peer support program helping their year 1 buddies during these sessions.

Year 5s will be looking at building sportsmanship skills which will greatly benefit the beginning of their inter-school sports journey. URSTRONG also have a free parent page full of useful tips and videos to help learn the ‘language of friendship’ along with strategies on how to help your child overcome friendship issues.  It can only be a good thing if both parents and teachers are using the same ‘language of friendship’ when helping the children navigate through relationships, and being able to identify what makes a healthy relationship.

https://urstrong.com/parents/.

SRC NEWS

Congratulations to the students who were elected to represent their classes on the SRC for Semester 1. We have already had our first meeting where we discussed the Value/Christian Virtue that the school will be focussing on for the month of February, ‘Acceptance’.  Students will be collecting information from their classes about what it means to be ‘accepting’ of others and what that might look like in the classroom and on the playground. Certificates given out at our next assembly will be given to students who have been demonstrating this value. SRC badges will also be handed out to our new SRC members at this assembly.

Katrina Gardiner

Wellbeing Leader