Student Wellbeing
Integral to the Catholic Education Office Melbourne (CEOM)strategic plan “One Body, Many Parts 2006 – 2010” is the School Improvement Framework. The School Improvement Framework identifies five key spheres. Student Wellbeing is one of those spheres.
At St Paul’s we see Student Wellbeing as the core of everything in the school. Every staff member at St Paul’s is seen as a teacher of wellbeing. We believe that if a student has a good sense of self, connectedness and purpose, they will be happier and perform better.
We value Student Wellbeing highly, thus, as recommended by CEOM, we have appointed Wellbeing Co-ordinator who has completed the recommended Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Studies (Student Welfare) at Melbourne University. We have a Student Wellbeing core team, who are responsible for policy development, goal setting and achieving positive outcomes in the area of Student Wellbeing.
The Core Team support the implementation of both national and state initiatives linked to wellbeing, such as the National Safe Schools Framework (NSSF) and the National School Drug Education Strategy (NSDES). We also look to make links with local community agencies such as the School Focused Youth Services (SFYS). The Core Team is also responsible for curriculum development in the area of Drug Education, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) as well as ensuring our students are developing resilience and social skills as they progress through the year levels.