Student focused

A Student focused holistic well-being and developmental program that encompasses all students across three years of middle years schooling.

Positive relationships foster connectedness and feelings of belonging which are essential for good well-being. These relationships are characterised by constructive interactions that provide enthusiastic and genuine support.

Mental health and dealing with life’s challenges

Mental health is a way of describing social and emotional well-being. Good mental health is central to every student’s healthy development and is associated with:

• feeling happy and positive about themselves and enjoying life
• healthy relationships with family and friends
• participation in physical activity and eating a healthy diet
• the ability to relax and to get a good night’s sleep
• community participation and belonging

We need good mental health to build strong relationships, adapt to change and deal with life’s challenges.

Intrinsic motivation to be personally responsible for your conduct and learning behaviours

Students are actively and intrinsically motivated towards wanting to be engaged in their learning;

• Students have positive and respectful relationships with each other, their teachers and the community.
• Students experience a sense of belonging and connectedness that respects diversity and identity.
• Students are self-aware and regulate their own emotions and behaviours. Students have the social and emotional skills to develop and maintain positive relationships and engage in pro-social behaviour.

Life skills around human development and risk awareness

Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Students cover the ten identified life skills across the three year continuum of Health and Physical Education, Food and Nutrition, during Roll Group sessions and Pastoral Care;

1. Self-awareness
2. Empathy
3. Critical thinking
4. Creative thinking
5. Decision making
6. Problem Solving
7. Effective communication
8. Interpersonal relationship
9. Coping with stress
10. Coping with emotion

Emotional resilience and awareness and development of inner strength

Emotional resilience refers to one’s ability to adapt to stressful situations or crises. Resilient students can “roll with the punches” and adapt to adversity without lasting difficulties, while less resilient students have a harder time with stress and life changes.

Both biological and social factors contribute to personality development, so there is something about being “naturally resilient” that is out of our control. However, psychological and social research have demonstrated that emotional resilience is something that can be learned or improved upon no matter what level of “it” we are born with.

Students investigate the eight characteristics shared by emotionally resilient people across the three year continuum of Health and Physical Education, Food and Nutrition, during Roll Group sessions and Pastoral Care;

• Emotional Awareness
• Perseverance
• Internal Locus of Control
• Optimism
• Support
• Perspective
• Sense of humour
• Handling troublesome emotions