Cybersafety

I do implore parents to do some reading around cybersafety if you are not already familiar with best practice.  These links provide important reading as a way of maximising your child’s safety online.

• https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/big-issues/online-pornography
• https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/skills-advice/hard-to-have-conversations
• https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/skills-advice/taming-technology

Social-Emotional Learning

Stand up for yourself

Over this next fortnight, we will be having conversations with students about how to stand up for themselves.  This situation usually involves an aggressor who may, or may not, be aware of how they are impacting someone.  Using conflict resolution skills, we hope to teach the children how to respond assertively, rather than aggressively or passively.

Bridge Strategy

Be the Change around bullying behaviour.

We will be having conversations around the fact that we are all different, and the need to respect or tolerate difference.  This should be reciprocated. 

As part of this,  recognising that children are at different stages of development - physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually - is often why conflict can occur. 

Conflict will also occur because of the environment that school brings – a large number of young people at different stages of development interacting in an environment which is a mix of highly structured and closely supervised (classroom) and less structured and supervised (playground).  

What is important, is knowing the difference between conflict and bullying.  We  will continue to talk with the students about the difference between these concepts and ask members of our community to be conscious of not generalising negative behaviour as ‘bullying’. 

Active School Travel

We will be meeting with a team from Brisbane City Council next week to start conversations around a plan for safe travel to and from school.  While you have been patient with the procedures we introduced during the COVID interruption, we hope to implement more long term initiatives to keep our children safe whilst also being helpful to families.  The drop off zones at the front of the school have become a staple but I expect there will be other ideas coming out of this meeting.