St Paul’s prioritises community wellbeing through safety, inclusivity, and support.
At St Paul’s we are justifiably proud of our safe, welcoming, inclusive school. We believe the wellbeing of our school community is the building block of our whole school culture.
We see the area of Wellbeing as primarily focused on raising the wellbeing of the whole school community. This prevention practice embraces the safety and connectedness of the whole community. When intervention is required for small groups or individual children to address either social, behavioural or learning issues, we are able to provide them with valuable assistance through our teachers, student wellbeing team or school counsellor.
Social and Emotional Learning
We use The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships learning materials, which have been designed to develop students’ social, emotional and positive relationship skills. Efforts to promote social and emotional skills and positive gender norms in children and young people, has been shown to improve health related outcomes and subjective wellbeing.
The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) learning materials cover eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning:
- Emotional Literacy;
- Personal and Cultural Strengths;
- Positive Coping;
- Problem Solving;
- Stress Management;
- Help Seeking;
- Gender Norms and Stereotypes;
- Positive Gender Relationships.
Berry Street Education Model
The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) is a practical approach to teaching and learning that aims to support students’ self-regulation, relationships and wellbeing to increase student engagement and significantly improve academic achievement.
The Model comprises five domains:
- BODY
- STAMINA
- ENGAGEMENT
- CHARACTER
- RELATIONSHIP
Zones of Regulation
Feeling Zones are used to support self-regulation and emotional control. Students explore ways to safely move between zones and recognise triggers with their emotions.
There are four Feeling Zones: Blue, Green, Yellow and Red.
School Expectations and Values
Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe
At St Paul’s Primary we have five school values: Responsibility, Respect, Courage, Justice and Responsibility.
