At Avondale Primary School student wellbeing is the foundation of all school activities and programs. Our goal is to provide a safe and engaging environment that supports and promotes the behavioural, emotional and cognitive wellbeing of all our students.
The following approaches are used to support our students to achieve success in a safe and engaging school environment.- School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS)
- Resilience, Rights Respectful Relationships
- Buddy program
- Bullying Prevention & Online safety presentations and activities
At Avondale Primary School we have committed to using a framework to develop students’ social and emotional learning (SEL), including 5 SEL competencies which we are implementing Foundation to Year 6 to support child development.
School is not only about reading, writing and mathematics. It’s also about making friends, learning how to work with others and knowing how to be responsible for yourself.
Knowing how to manage feelings and get on with others are important skills for everyone. This kind of learning starts in early childhood with parents and carers as children’s most important first teachers.
Research has found that teaching children social and emotional skills at school as well as at home makes a positive difference to their wellbeing. Social and Emotional Skills (SEL) help school children settle in the classroom and get on with learning.
The kinds of social and emotional skills that are important for children to develop have been identified by researchers as:
Understanding feelings, self-confidence.
Respecting and understanding others, and appreciating differences between people.
Managing emotions, being able to set goals and stick to them.
Choosing wisely and thoughtfully.
Cooperating, communicating, making friends and resolving conflict.
Student Attendance
We all want our students to get a great education, and the building blocks for a great education begin with students coming to school each and every day.
If students miss school regularly, they miss out on learning the fundamental skills that will set them up for success in the later years of school.
There is no safe number of days for missing school – each day a student misses puts them behind, and can affect their educational outcomes.
Each missed day is associated with progressively lower achievement in numeracy, writing and reading.
The importance of attendance in primary school: Parent Fact Sheet
School is better when you are here: Student Fact Sheet
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Hi, My name is Teriann Bryers and I am excited to introduce myself as the Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader at Avondale Primary School in 2024. This position highlights and recognises the importance of Mental Health and Wellbeing in children.
The Mental Health in Primary Schools (MHiPS) initiative supports schools to employ a Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader, a qualified teacher, to implement a whole-school approaches to mental health and wellbeing. The program is based on a pilot that commenced in 2020, developed in partnership with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne and The Department of Education.
The program aims to build the capability of the whole school in developing knowledge, awareness and skills about mental health and wellbeing, improving student mental health outcomes, and social and emotional development skills. These skills and attitudes support academic engagement.
The program builds the capacity of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader to support student mental health and wellbeing by:
The role of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader is to focus on the promotion and prevention of mental health and wellbeing through implementation of programs, approaches and initiatives based on the needs of the school. This includes:
