ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Wellbeing in Action
Save the date for
- ‘Bullying. No Way! Building a Kindness Culture’. Classroom activities on March 18th.
- ‘Harmony Week’ Dress-Up day on Monday 21st March. We will be celebrating the diversity of cultures at Sacred Heart and across Australia. Children are invited to wear clothes with cultural significance or orange clothes/socks/accessories to celebrate harmony and diversity in our community. Further information about what to wear and the activities we will be engaging in at school will be made available next week.
Helping your child to be a good friend
“Friendship skills include being a loyal friend, accepting differences in a friend, standing up for a friend, being kind and supportive to a friend and including a friend in games.” Life Education
Understanding what a good friend is can be tricky. The latest Insight from Parenting Ideas explores some strategies you can use to help explain what being a good friend means to your child and how they can be one. Click Here
Student Wellbeing and Behaviour Management (Part 1)
At Sacred Heart we make the: teaching of social-emotional skills, online safety, knowing our school rules and having strategies for when things go wrong - a core part of our inquiry learning. These skills will help us to be better self-managers, collaborators and communicators. (Learning Assets, K Murdoch 2015).
Across the school we use the STOP, THINK, DO! program to teach social skills, helping students consider the choices they make in managing their own behaviours and responding to the behaviour of others.
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Stop |
Notice what we are seeing, hearing, feeling and doing. If it is not safe, respectful, kind or friendly we need to stop. |
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Think |
Reflect on the choices we are making. Think of solutions. Consider the consequences. Some of the strategies we teach at the thinking step are captured in the ‘High Five’ image below. |
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Do |
Choose a solution and put it into action |
Students in the older grades go further with social-emotional learning by participating in activities from the Rock and Water program. The exercises and games are practised to develop confidence and self-reflection. The games are martial arts based. Students learn to block, stand strong, negotiate using “rock” or “water” verbal approaches, walk away from a fight, consider alternatives to aggression, and develop understandings about who they are, their intuitive feelings and their personal direction. Click on the Rock and Water Logo to take you to their website for further information.
Staff at Sacred Heart will use the language of these two programs, explicitly taught in classes, when guiding students to respond to interactions at school.
Next week - Behaviour steps when children need further guidance to manage their behaviour choices.
Yours faithfully,
