Resilience

During our virtual assemblies this term, Prep – Year 5 students have been revisiting the components of our You Can Do It Program. Over the last two weeks, we have been examining resilience.

Building resilience is essential to help us navigate our daily lives. Especially when we have confrontations with difficult people, make wrong choices, get bad results, encounter negative situations that are beyond our control or struggle with day to day things that are boring, difficult or what we consider a waste of time.

We all face such difficulties with varying levels of resilience. Teaching children the skills to support the development of resilience is an important facet of growth and development.

Some of our Year 5 students shared their thoughts about what it means to be resilient:

• To keep giving your best even if you’re in doubt – Amy
• Being resilient means that you bounce back, keep trying and try not let anything bring you down – Ben
• Resilience means getting back up again even if times get tough – Tilly

We are continually surrounded by examples of resilience and there are many figures throughout history who have demonstrated great resilience against all odds. This week at assembly, we acknowledged Mabo Day, which fell on 3rd June. Students were reminded of the resilience that Eddie Mabo showed during his campaign for Indigenous land rights to be recognised in Australia.

School Boundaries

Our College thread of school boundaries has served as a timely reminder as students have returned to the College with different guidelines to maintain our safety. Our pastoral care logo with the cross at its centre, reminds us that our boundaries are there to preserve the care, dignity and respect we have for each other. The crossing of these boundaries has the potential to impact the individual rights of others and we continue to remind our students of the importance of making good choices, in line with our College ethos.

We remind students and families to ensure they are presenting to the College in line with our uniform guidelines and thank families for the way they are supporting the College with the drop off and pick up of students in both car parks.

Mobile Device Use

Finally, a reminder about mobile use across the Foundation and Junior College. If students are in possession of a device capable of communication such as a phone or smart watch, it must be switched to standby whilst the student is at school. At no stage are students to contact parents directly via their device. All communication needs to be through the P-5 student reception.

Take care and God bless.

Mr Damian Davis, Head of Staff and Students P-5