Dear Families and Friends

Every week we have a focus on a value or important life skill that as a whole school we explicitly teach and reinforce with our students. At the start of this term, we learnt about how important it is to be Respectful to all staff and other students. We practiced what that looked like, sounded like and acknowledged our students who have been making a real effort to have respectful interactions with others.  We then focused on Following Instructions and how important it is for safety especially, that students know how to follow all staff instructions. 

At Assembly on Monday, we introduced that our new focus will be Honesty for the next few weeks and teachers then will follow up with explicitly teaching why this is so important and what it looks like in different settings. All staff will then reward and acknowledge students practicing being honest and truthful in classrooms and playgrounds and a range of different situations. More importantly our students will learn a range of strategies to help themselves with being truthful and hopefully feel proud of themselves for making the right choices.

This is just a snapshot of some ways we discuss being honest with our learners and how it makes them feel when they tell the truth about situations.

Once you are honest……

• If you have done the wrong thing and been honest and tried to fix it – Go you
• If you have been part of a problem or seen a problem and been honest – Go you again
• If something has happened to you and you have been honest about the situation – Go you a third time

Remember we can fix any problem if we are honest with ourselves and others!!

CYBER SAFETY TIPS FOR AT HOME

If you are looking for some ways of talking to your children at home about cyber safety and being safe online, especially in chat/messaging groups, the below website is an excellent resource for Parents.

If you would like to learn more about how you can help your children to be E-Safe at home this website is an excellent resource to start with.

 The E-SAFETY KIDS Website- Be an E-Safe Kid- How to Be Kind online

The site has lots of strategies and what to do if:

*someone is being mean to your child online

*your child mentions that friends are being mean to others online

*How do I know if I’m being mean to others online.

Here’s a snapshot below:

Cyberbullying is using technology to bully or hurt someone else.

Lets talk about learning

A reminder to ask your children these 5 questions about their learning

• What are you learning?
• How are you going?
• How do you know?
• How can you improve?
• Where do you go for help?

These are also great questions to help prompt conversations about learning at school!

Thank you to our Life Ed. Educator Brigitte, who did an amazing job teaching our learners about making friends, feelings, respecting and connecting and how to be Cyberwise.

Thought for the week!

Thank you from Mrs Ryan

Our Vision: “To inspire students to reach their full potential in a safe, caring and educationally challenging environment.”