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Upcoming Emergency Practice

Upcoming Emergency Practice

 Within the next week, we will hold an emergency practice with staff and students, to test our response to a potential scenario warranting that our site goes into lockout/ lockdown.

 Similar to the fire evacuation practices that we are accustomed to holding, we recognise the importance to also test other emergency responses and assist our people to feel more familiar with what they do during an emergency.

 When the practice is held, through the start signal announcement, our people will know it is only a practice and not a real emergency.

 Prior to the below date, staff will refresh themselves on the emergency response plan.

 If you have queries around staff or children participating, before the next week you are welcome to contact the school office on 62578126.

School Lunch Program

Please ignore the last message re lunch tomorrow being Good Friday. We wish you all a wonderful Easter see you all on Wednesday.

March 28 Newsletter

Click here to view the March 28 Schoolzine eNewsletter!

Peaceful Kids Program

Parent/Guardian Consent Form

Please find attached some information regarding the Peaceful Kids Program.

If you would like your child to be a part of the Peaceful Kids program, please fill in the Permission Form and return it to the school nurse, via administration staff.

 Yours Sincerely,

 Anna - School Health Nurse

          

Peaceful Kids program

‘Peaceful Kids’ is a Mindfulness and Positive Psychology based program to lessen anxiety and stress and increase resilience in children. The program gives children the skills, practice and support to utilize coping strategies that lessen the symptoms of anxiety and stress and to build resilience.   The program also involves parental involvement and commitment to supporting the strategies at home. 

Outcomes of the Peaceful Kids program:

  • Lessen symptoms of anxiety and stress in children
  • Teaches children to self-calm
  • Empowers children to manage their own anxiety
  • Develops emotional intelligence skills
  • Teaches children life-long skills to manage stress and prevent stress build up
  • Supports children so they know that they are not alone with suffering from anxiety

 Peaceful Kids is based on evidence-based therapies and research:

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR)
  • Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT)
  • Positive Psychology
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

 Program structure:

  • Peaceful Kids is an educational program for children
  • Sessions are for approximately 40 minutes each fortnight
  • Sessions include learning a range of mindfulness strategies and meditations and positive psychology exercises.
  • Children are guided through meditations daily online via the Peaceful Kids website: com.au
  • Peaceful Kids is not a counselling or therapeutic program, rather an educational program.

 Parental involvement:

  • Each week the children learn a new mindfulness meditation and positive psychology strategy that they can share with you at home. It would be great to give your child the time to practice these strategies at home, so they learn to incorporate these into their daily lives.

Program Content

 Children learn about:

  • Basic theory on Mindfulness and how it affects the brain and lessens stress and anxiety
  • The different ways to practice Mindfulness and integrate it into their lives
  • Their feelings and how this relates to anxiety and stress levels
  • Understanding stress and how it relates personally to them
  • Understanding triggers for stress and how to calm down when feeling stressed
  • Physical symptoms of stress and learning to identify when they need to take time out to calm themselves
  • Worrying and how it affects their happiness
  • Different types of thinking that increase anxiety or lessen anxiety
  • Noticing their own self-talk and how this is affects worrying and stress levels
  • Creating a balanced lifestyle including lots of chill out time and being in the flow

Children learn life skills of:

  • A range of Mindfulness meditations
  • Positive psychology exercises
  • Techniques to lessen worrying
  • A variety of coping strategies
  • A variety of problem solving strategies
  • Journaling and expressing their worries
  • Facing challenges and fears step by step
  • Preventative strategies to help prevent stress build up
  • Being attuned to their own bodies and minds
  • Being in the flow more regularly and enjoying more of the present moment

Research:

 If you would like to learn about Mindfulness and Positive Psychology and its benefits, the following links may be useful to outline the science and evidence-based research that the program is based on. 

http://au.reachout.com/what-is-mindfulness

http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/research/

http://www.mindfulschools.org/about-mindfulness/research

http://www.mindful.org/the-science/medicine/the-science-of-mindfulness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121144007.htm

http://www.actionforhappiness.org

http://mindfullearning.com.au/about-mindful-learning/authors/

http://www.mindfulness.net.au/what-is-micbt.html

 

Peaceful Kids Permission Form

I give permission for my child to participate in the Peaceful Kids educational program at Swansea Primary School over 4 sessions. 

 I understand the program will be run by Nurse Anna and that my child will be meeting each fortnight in Term 2 and I have read the Parent Information that outlines the content and outcomes of the program.  

 

Child’s Name:                                               Parent’s Name:

 

 Date:                                                              Parent Signature:                                                                        

 

Regards,
Mrs Kendal King
Principal

School Lunch Program Chicken Pasta Salad

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School sores (Impetigo)

We wish to advise that there are confirmed case of school sores (Impetigo) in the grade 1/2 class. Please find attached the following information on Impetigo.

School Sores (Impetigo)

Symptoms

 A very contagious skin infection. Starts as a red patch and can develop into crusty yellow sores.

Treatment

 Please visit your doctor for treatment.

Notify School

Please advise the school as school sores are highly infectious and can spread quickly throughout the school community.

Keep Child at Home

Your child must stay at home until treatment from your doctor has commenced. Sores on exposed areas must be covered with a dressing.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Lego Creations

Lego creations are ready to be sent home. Please collect today if possible.

Primary Progress Reports

Primary progress reports are being sent home today with students.  If your child is absent today they will be posted home.

Happy Easter enjoy the break and we will see all students back at school on Wednesday the 3rd of April 2024.

Progress Reports Prep to Grade 6

Progress Reports are being sent home today with students.  Please check your childs bag for the envelope.

Students that absent, their reports will be posted.

Communicating Learning Progress.pdf

SRC Raffle Tickets

Last chance all tickets to the school office by 9am tomorrow Thursday the 28th of March.

25 Franklin Street
Swansea TAS 7190

Phone: 03 6257 8126