PBL Focus Weeks 5 and 6 – Safe

Our focus for the next two weeks is, ’Wondall Learners are safe when they keep their hands and feet to self’. The objective of this focus is to increase student awareness around safety; not using hands and feet to touch or hurt others' bodies; using knowledge of emotional regulation and strategies to identify appropriate behaviour choices.

In class, students will discuss:

• What safe hands and feet looks like, sounds like, feels like.
• Why is this safety important for everyone at WHSS? (with a focus on the importance of not being physically rough/aggressive in play or when angry).

Students will explore the concept that we are all allowed to feel angry/frustrated/upset; however, it is the way that we manage these feelings that is important. By recognising how our body feels and triggers that upset us, we can use strategies to make better decisions around how we react.

‘Our brain is in control, not our feelings’.

Students revisited the emotional regulation concept of ‘Flipping the Lid’ with a focus on learning about brain science, gaining an understanding that our brains are in control of our bodies/actions, in order to help prevent rough play/physical altercations.

Teachers will be looking for students to reward with Double Dougies when they are seen to be being SAFE by keeping hands and feet to themselves.

Reward Session

This Friday, students will celebrate their outstanding engagement at school with a DOUGIE REWARD SESSION. All students who have reached 50 Dougie Points will participate in the reward. If your child has not reached 50 Dougie Points your child’s teacher will have been in contact with you to discuss alternate arrangements.

Congratulations Wondall!!!!