WELLBEING UPDATE

Dear Sacred Heart Families,

Welcome to the 2024 School Year! I hope you all have had a rested and refreshing summer break and are ready for a wonderful year of growing and learning together here at Sacred Heart.

I have had the privilege of visiting all classrooms K-6 this week to meet the children and begin introducing them to the school wide ‘Grow Your Mind’ Wellbeing Program that we will be implementing this year. This program has a strong focus on brain awareness, emotional literacy and regulation, healthy relationships, mindsets, character strength education and consent education. This term the children and teachers will be introduced to the program. In Term 2 more detailed information about the program will be available to you through a parent session (which I will advertise for your attendance). Keep an eye out for this!

As part of the program, we introduce the brain through fictional animal characters. This is a playful and engaging way to teach the children about their brain and some of its core functions. See poster below: 

We all have mental health and it’s important to remember that, the teachers need to look after their Wellbeing as well. These are the little teacher wellbeing welcome packs I delivered to them last week: 

Remember to keep filling your cup. Have a great week! 

I look forward to meeting you all soon.

Amanda Macourt

Leader of Wellbeing and Engagement