MENTAL HEALTH IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS INITIATIVE

Our Student Welfare team work closely with our classroom teachers to identify students who require further social, emotional and mental health support. The team meets each week to discuss our programs, strategies, source resources and professional services where appropriate to support identified students. 

Our MHIPS team is receiving Professional training throughout this year to put in place our structures and processes.

Sue Sandy is our Mental Health Leader.

Student Health & Welfare initiatives

Mindfulness

Our Mindfulness strategy is now operating in all our classes. All our office, teaching, Kindergarten and teacher aide staff were trained in these strategies. Mindfulness is now practiced every day before a new learning session and after a playground break.
These mindfulness sessions help to settle, relax and anchor our students and help calm their emotions before they start any learning session. Our school is a very calm place.We are implementing a variety of different mindfulness strategies which are designed to settle, relax and support quiet concentration.
When combined with the skills we have introduced through the C.A.S.E.A. program you can see a strategic focus on supporting the social and emotional development of our students.
Our kinder program has also introduced mindfulness strategies. This all contributes to developing better interpersonal skills and positive communication. Students learn to delay gratification through awareness of their emotional state.
Students acquire strategies to control their emotions which leads to happier, more engaged, settled students and better learning outcomes.
Added to this strategy our S.O.L.E. strategy (Self Organised Learning Environments) has a focus on “connecting emotions to learning”.
You can see why our school is such a calm, orderly place both in the classrooms and in the playground.

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