Student Wellbeing
Findon Primary School is dedicated to the development of a deep understanding about social connectedness and understanding in our community. Findon Primary School teaches ‘Respectful Relationships Education’. Respectful Relationships Education supports schools and early childhood settings to promote and model respect, positive attitudes and behaviours. It teaches our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. This involves a structured lesson sequence that focuses on the following topics:
Topic 1: Emotional literacy
Topic 2 Personal strengths
Topic 3: Positive coping strategies
Topic 4: Problem-solving
Topic 5: Stress management
Topic 6: Help seeking
Topic 7: Gender and identity
Topic 8: Positive gender relationships
Further information about Respectful Relationships Education, titled ‘Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships, is available on the Departments FUSE website.
In this program, students engage with a range of interactive activities that allow them to explore their social and emotional learning in a safe and equitable environment, while tackling some of the situations they may encounter in their daily lives. This program has been shown to significantly improve children’s social and emotional skills and develop a deep understanding of empathy, resilience, positive relationships and self-image, as well as interpersonal problem solving skills.
This program is also utilised to reduce antisocial behaviour in the school community by:
- Establishing and reinforcing school community expectations
- Strengthening self-control and encouraging reflective thinking
- Improving children’s communication skills with adults and peers
- Increasing children’s abilities to identify, understand, and discuss the variety of feelings people experience in their daily lives
- Enhancing children’s abilities to recognise and interpret similarities and differences in the feelings, reactions, and points of view in themselves and others
- Promoting the development of empathy and perspective-taking
- Helping children use social problem-solving skills to prevent and/or resolve problems and conflicts in social interactions
- Helping children in using these skills to improve the classroom environment and academic success.