Our Student Wellbeing
At St Joseph’s Primary School we prioritise the safety and happiness of our students and recognise that spiritual, physical and emotional wellbeing are prerequisites for learning.
We also recognise that successful learning experiences and academic progress are essential for our students’ wellbeing.
We support Student Wellbeing through:
Wellbeing Dog
At St Joseph's we have a certified therapy dog called ‘Pepper’ who attends school and works with children of all ages.
Our program aims to support children’s wellbeing by using effective intervention strategies within our school community.
During our ‘Pepper’ sessions, children can:
Participate in authentic, positive interactions in a stress-free environment
Engage in meaningful opportunities for social and emotional learning
Focus on improving social and communication skills
Re-engage in learning
The Resilience Project
St Joseph’s has recently introduced The Resilience Program (TRP) This programs aims to support positive mental health in the classroom, staffroom and the family home. Through this program we focus on Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness (GEM),ensuring that our students are exposed to positive learning to become emotionally resilient.
We are able to introduce this program with the generosity of a grant from the Community Bank - Clifton Hill Fitzroy #PartneredByCommunityBankCliftonHillNorthFitzroy
Social Emotional Learning Program
Our school is undertaking Respectful Relationships which is part of our Social / Emotional Learning Program. This P-6 program sits well within the context of the Catholic tradition, Gospel values and our belief that each one of us has the ability to make a difference.
The program involves promoting respectful relationships through the topics of emotional literacy, personal strengths, positive coping, problem solving, stress management, help seeking, gender and identity, and positive gender relations.
Our program also compliments the strategies from the Berry Street Education Model which is utilised by our school.
School Wide Positive Behaviour Support
At present St Joseph’s implements the School Wide Positive Behaviour Support approach. SWPBS is an initiative through which we explicitly teach and support positive behaviours across the school. These behaviours demonstrate our guiding principle -
“At St Joseph’s school we are called by God to value and encourage every person in our community. We are committed to providing a positive and safe learning environment where we are called to be mindful of others and ourselves.”
We respect our school.
We do our best.
We help others succeed.
