Wellbeing

At our school, student wellbeing and learning go hand in hand. We want every student to feel safe, included and ready to learn. Whether your child needs help with their mental, emotional, social or physical wellbeing, we are here to help them thrive at school and in daily life.

How we support student wellbeing

Supporting each student’s mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing is part of everyday school life.

We do this through:

• Positive Behaviour for Learning
  The school’s expectations are respect, responsibility and safety. These expectations are taught to students when necessary. Staff use the language of the PBL expectations when discussing behaviour with students and students are all made aware of what is expected of them.

  PBL awards and acknowledgements are used as a school-wide reward system for students displaying the school expectations in the classroom and while on the playground. Students accumulate Dojo points and on receiving 200 points move up the PBL wall to the next level. Levels range from Bronze to Onyx and each level has a tangible acknowledgement attached to it.

  Green slips are used to record undesirable behaviours. Teachers have access to these in classrooms and in playground folders. Events are recorded and the slips are given to the wellbeing committee for recording on the School Bytes platform.

• UR Strong
  The program involves understanding the cycle of friendships and four friendship facts, students develop the language and self-confidence to be better friends and develop healthy relationships with their peers.  Explicitly teaching our students how to develop healthy relationships and manage conflict in a respectful way is a key factor to creating a safe caring learning environment for all students at Marulan Public School.

• Berry Street Education Model
  The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) provides strategies for teaching and learning that enables teachers to increase engagement of students with complex, unmet learning needs and to successfully improve all students’ self-regulation, relationships, wellbeing, growth and academic achievement.

  The five domains of the Berry Street Education Model (Body, Stamina, Engagement, Character and Relationship) correspond with child-development capacities that each student must grow in order to be ‘ready to learn’. When considering how to best meet the needs of students, we focus on building self-regulatory ability, relational capacity and then nurture wellbeing and willingness to engage in learning.

  Visit Our principal and staff to learn about our wellbeing and specialist support staff.

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