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Dear Parents and Carers
Positive Education Enhanced Curriculum (PEEC)
Last newsletter I wrote about the Ignite Learning Project that is commencing at St Saviour's Primary School this year. The focus of this project is learning. Today, I would like to revisit the Positive Education Enhanced Curriculum (PEEC), where the focus is wellbeing.
At St Saviour's Primary, we strongly value both learning and student wellbeing.
Positive Education brings together the science of Positive Psychology with best practice teaching to encourage and support individuals, schools and communities to flourish. Flourishing can be seen as a combination of ‘feeling good and doing good’.
Positive Education focuses on specific skills that assist students to strengthen their relationships, build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience, promote achievement and encourage a healthy lifestyle.
It’s important to note that Positive Education is not about being happy all the time and avoiding negative emotions. If you deeply care for anything or anyone, you will experience a range of emotions –this is part of living a rich, full and meaningful life.
Positive Education is also not about ensuring a child is free from failure and adversity. Instead, Positive Education seeks to prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child, equipping them for the journey ahead.
During their time at school, our students will learn the skills and knowledge involved in Positive Education during specific Positive Education classes. These concepts will also be lived through day-to-day school life.
For example, in specific Positive Education classes, students may:
•explore a range of relationship-building skills
•explore the responsibility and challenge of self-regulating their emotions
•be introduced to resilience skills which they can put into practice
•learn to understand and appreciate the benefits of expressing gratitude
•recognise and appreciate the unique strengths within themselves and those around them
•explore the relationship between service of others and having a meaningful life
Thank you for partnering with us as, together, we seek to support and enhance the wellbeing of the children in our care. If you have any further questions about this initiative, we would warmly encourage you to contact us directly via email to either sam.hannant@twb.catholic.edu.au or anne.woodcroft-brown@twb.catholic.edu.au
WORLD OF MATHS
We are very excited to have World of Maths visiting St Saviour's Primary next week.
World of Maths offer a hands on maths presentation of fun and educational, hands-on, problem solving activities.
The activities or “displays” have been invented/designed and manufactured by World of Maths and therefore would not be found anywhere else in the world.
The program has been designed to cater for all abilities with 34 activities covering ages from 5 to 14 year old.
To view an example of how World of Maths works, please click on the below link:
Students will be participating on the following days:
Monday 15 Feb - Years 2, 3 & 4
Thursday 18 Feb - Years Prep and 1
Friday 19 Feb - Years 5 & 6
Parent Information Night
Thanks to all those parents who were able to make the Parent Information Night last night. It was fantastic to see so many attend and we hope you gained some valuable insight into your child's learning at St Saviour's.
If you were unable to attend, the presentation will be sent home to all parents via Schoolzine in the coming days. Please also keep an eye out for the leadership presentation which will also come home via Schoolzine.