Peer Mediation

Congratulations to all of the Junior primary students for being St Pat’s Kids as again our student peer mediators have not had to mediate any disputes on the playground…YAY.  A big thank you to Ivy Smith and Oliver Malone for volunteering to take on the role of Peer Mediators on Wednesdays until our Grade five students are inducted.

Passion Clubs

Students are loving their clubs and are happy to be creative on Monday and Friday lunchtimes.  The Junior Primary Passion Clubs will be held on Mondays now and the Senior Primary Passion Clubs will be held on Friday lunchtimes.   Next week there will be a meeting in the library instead of clubs for all those current Passion Club leaders and students who would like to lead a club. To lead a Passion Club you need to have an interest that you would like to share, create four different 20 minute activities that you can teach others about.  The Passion Clubs that have been running since the beginning of term are Yoga, Disney Drawing, Paper Planes, Drama, Book Reading, St Pats Kid and Basketball.  I cannot wait to hear about the Passions of new students who come forward to lead clubs for the next 4 weeks.

Empowered

This week the students enrolled in Empowered were introduced to “Character Strength Spotting.”  Having explored briefly the character strength of LOVE, GRATITUDE, CURIOUSITY and SELF CONTROL the students have been on a quest to find people displaying these four character strengths at school and at home.  Reflecting on themselves they shared their stories of being caring, generous and kind which are examples of the character strength of LOVE. 

This is a simple way that we can retrain our brains to look for the positives in and through the actions and words of the people we interact with whether it be in our families, at work or in town. Happy character strength spotting! You just may be amazed at all of the positive energy that surrounds you.

“the light in me knows the light in you is AWESOME……so let it shine”

Enjoy

Alicia Spicer

Wellbeing Coach

Alicia.spicer@cg.catholic.edu.au