Building Stronger Friendships at St Pauls!

By Ivy Bui and Isabella Di Domenico, Year 6 Wellbeing Leaders

The Year 6 Wellbeing Team are proud to introduce you to your new Friend-O-Leaders for 2024! Friend-o-Leaders are the Year 6 wellbeing team that help students’ with Friendship Fires (arguments) around the yard at recess and lunch. We want to teach students to be able to learn how to put out these Friendship Fires for when we are not there to help them. If a student needs help solving their friendship fires they can search the yard for a Year 6 student wearing a lanyard. 

At St Paul’s we have Friend-o-Leaders, so that students have someone to ask for help if they can’t put out a Friendship Fire on their own. We have a ‘Friend-O-cycle’  that we use to help students put out their Friendship Fires. Let’s say that a student has a Friendship Fire, the first step would be to confront the issue, the second step would be to talk it out, the last step would be to forgive the person and to forget what happened, then the friendship would become closer and stronger, and then it would be a healthy friendship! 

Friend-o-Leaders have been very successful so far at St Pauls. Some students have already become quite comfortable walking up to us if they need help. As you can see in the picture below, one of our Friend-O-Leaders has received a gratitude letter from a student for solving a Friendship Fire.