Wellbeing

Student Health and Wellbeing at Mount Eliza North Primary School

Mount Eliza North Primary School is committed to providing a safe, secure and stimulating learning environment for all students. We understand that students reach their full potential only when they are happy, healthy and safe, and that a positive school culture helps to engage students and support them in their learning. Our school acknowledges that student wellbeing and student learning outcomes are closely linked.

Fundamentally, Mount Eliza North Primary School strives to foster a healthy community that is safe, inclusive and based on positive relationships. A strong Wellbeing process ensures that all students wellbeing and learning concerns are addressed appropriately.

Programs and Resources that support Student Wellbeing at Mount Eliza North Primary School include:
Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

Respectful Relationships supports schools and early childhood settings to promote and model respect, positive attitudes and behaviours. We teach our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. Our school is committed to building resilience in all of our students and our students practise GEM (gratitude, empathy and mindfulness). The work completed in the has direct links to the Victorian Curriculum, and supports the development of the IB PYP attributes approaches to learning and skills.

Term 1	Topic	Term 2	Topic
Week 2 – 1^st-5^th Feb	Emotional Literacy	Week 1 – 19^th – 23^rd April	Positive Coping
Week 3 – 8^th – 12^th Feb		Week 2 – 26^th – 30^th April	Problem Solving
Week 4 – 15^th-19^th Feb		Week 3 – 3^rd – 7^th May	Problem Solving
Week 5 – 22^nd – 26^th Feb	Personal Strengths	Week 4 – 10^th – 14^th May	Stress management & Sexuality Education – Senior School
Week 6 – 1^st – 5^th Mar	Personal Strengths	Week 5 – 17^th – 21^st May
Week 7 – 8^th – 12^th Mar	NO RRRR	Week 6 – 24^th – 28^th May
Week 8 – 15^th-19th	Personal Strengths	Week 7 – 31^st May – 4^th June	Help Seeking & Sexuality Education – Middle School
Week 9 – 22^nd – 26^th Mar	Positive Coping	Week 8– 7^th – 11^th June
Week 10 – 29^th Mar – 2^nd April	Positive Coping	Week 9 – 14^th – 18^th June

Term 3	Topic	Term 4	Topic
Week 1 – 12^th – 16^th July	Gender and Identity	Weeks 1-10	Readdress topics as required
Week 2 – 19^th – 23^rd July
Week 3 – 26^th – 30^th July
Week 4 – 2^nd – 6^th August	NO RRRR
Week 5 – 9^th-13^th Aug	Gender and Identity
Week 6 – 16^th-20^th Aug	Positive Gender Relations
Week 7 – 23^rd-27^th Aug
Week 8 – 30^th Aug – 3^rd Sep
Week 9 – 6^th 10^th Sep

eSmart School

We educate our students and provide them with management tools to deal with bullying and cyber issues and incidents so that they feel safer and more supported at school. We embrace the benefits of technology while reducing students’ exposure to cyber risks, such as cyber bullying, online sexual predation, sexting, identity theft and fraud. Student and parent sessions are offered to strengthen the connection between school and home.

Buddy Program

The aim of the Buddy Program is to create friendly and caring primary school communities where strong cross-aged peer relationships can be built and maintained. The Buddy Program helps students to develop positive social skills. The Preps, Year Twos and Year Sixes are involved in the Buddy System which…

eases the transition of younger students
builds relationships between peers and multi-aged groupings.
encourage leadership, responsibility and respect in older students.
enables younger children to feel safe and cared for while older children feel valued and respected.
fosters a sense of whole school community.

Other initiatives and programs include:

Circle Time
Restorative Chats
Behaviour management strategies
Horizons Lunchtime Clubs
Transition Program
Developmental Play Shed
Play Leaders
Program for Students with Disabilities
Occupational Health and Safety (including First Aid and allergy awareness)
Sunsmart School
Out of Hours School Care and Holiday program
Uniform Code and Policy
Outside support agencies including Sexuality Education and other Parenting Programs
Specialist support – Speech Pathology/Psychology/Occupational Therapy