Kaya Families of 5R and Welcome to Week 5

 Kaya Families of 5R and Welcome to Week 5, 


I hope you are all keeping well in these crazy times. 

Dance for Sick Kids

  • Monday the 23rd of May
  • 8:50-9:40am Mrs Haines will be holding a full school k-6 Dance class in the Hall for the fundraiser.
National Sorry Day
  • A day of reconciliation for all Australians. 
  • Thursday 26th of May. 

Friendology

As part of our whole school approach to managing and supporting student friendships at OLC, we will be continuing to use the URSTRONG Friendology program. URSTRONG is an award-winning friendship program that empowers kids with friendship skills to create communities of kindness in schools.
In order to really expose the students to this program, this year you may have noticed that the students have a friendology diary. Every month there is a key focus, it would be great if you could read through this focus with your child and have an open discussion.
Throughout this program so far in 5R we have revised the four friendship facts (see below) and looked at healthy and unhealthy friendships.
Last week, we focused on Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTS) and perfectionism. We learnt how to identify the students most persistent A.N.Ts (Automatic Negative Thoughts) and learnt how to develop ways to focus on more positive, enabling thoughts. We also discussed perfectionism and how it can really destroy a process and learning. We discussed that it was important to aim high and try your very best however, aiming to be perfect in everything is not feasible or sustainable. 



Human Development

On Thursday, week 7 the students will participate in Human Development talks that will be presented by The Centre for Life, Marriage and Family. They will cover an introductory program on growth and development with the Year 5 students via zoom.
A permission slip will be sent home this week that must be completed and returned for your child to participate. Please ensure this is returned by the end of week 5, otherwise we will assume your child is not participating and will be sent to another classroom. We will also be starting the discussion of our bodies and their changes during Health sessions over the upcoming weeks also. If this is something you would also like to start discussing at home over the upcoming weeks, that would be supportive. 

Character Strength This Week







I hope you have a great weekend! 

Kindest regards, 

Miss Rees

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