Student Wellbeing


Student and Staff Wellbeing is one of our main priorities at Montpellier Primary School.

 

At Montpellier, we believe the components of a successful whole school wellbeing approach at Montpellier are:

  1. Wellbeing principles are part of our everyday teaching and learning practices
  2. Active support from all stakeholders towards a child’s holistic growth
  3. A diverse Wellbeing School Improvement Team to drive the planning, action and monitoring of wellbeing practices across the school
  4. Data informed to ensure what we do is relevant to our students and context

     

        Jess Saunders

Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader

We continue to be a part of the Mental Health in Primary Schools Program for 2024. This includes training and support for our school through our Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader, Jess Saunders. Jess has been working with the Education Department for 17 years and is an advocate for inclusion and wellbeing in primary schools. She was part of a team of experienced teachers, school principals, psychologists and special educators to contribute to one of Australia’s leading social-emotional learning and wellbeing education programs, taught in primary schools across the country.

     

       Mel Palamara

          Wellbeing Support

As part of our continued focus on wellbeing at Montpellier, we also provide targeted intervention for students who require further support, assessment and ongoing monitoring for improved mental health and wellbeing. Our Wellbeing Support, Mel Palamara, holds a Master of Education (Special Education) with a major sequence in Education Mental Health and Autism Studies. She also holds a Graduate Certificate of Education (Mental Health).

 

Any questions regarding intervention should be first communicated with your classroom teacher as both Jess and Mel work closely with staff to provide optimal holistic support for your child.

 

Our school curriculum incorporates a range of school-wide programs to ensure that our students feel safe and connected to school and the wider community. Our universal (school-wide) supports include:

 

Social and Emotional Learning

  • Zones of Regulation
  • P4P
  • Values Education – Positive Education
  • Character Strengths – Positive Education
  • Respectful Relationships

 

Whole-school pedagogical approach

  • Instructional teaching models for improved literacy and numeracy outcomes
  • High Impact Teaching Strategies
  • High Impact Wellbeing Strategies
  • Literacy Workshop Models
  • Writing Traits
  • Learner Dispositions

 

Whole-school approach to positive mental health

  • School Wide Positive Behaviours
  • Matrix of expected behaviours
  • Promotion of new school values
  • Lunchtime clubs (choir, chess, sports clubs, library, lego, gardening)
  • Student awards
  • Eating schedules built in to break times to build relationships
  • Celebration and promotion of community/diversity days (R U OK day, Greatest Shave, Crazy Hair Day, Harmony Day, Book Week, 100 Days of School)
  • Principal awards
  • Parent-teacher conferences
  • Social and Emotional Learning data and tracking (PIVOT and AtoSS)
  • Sensory tools, regulation toolboxes, brain breaks and calm corners
  • Continuous and ongoing assessment to target learning
  • Internal referral pathways for targeted wellbeing support
  • Wellbeing School Improvement Team
  • Student Voice
  • Student Council
  • Student Led Assemblies
  • Smiling Mind mindfulness
  • Fortnightly newsletters
  • Camps and Excursions programs
  • STEM and Art Fairs
  • Talent Quest and Busker’s Day for students to showcase their interests
  • Sports Programs

 

                                    

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