WELLBEING
RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS
At Oatlands the Respectful Relationships Program is implemented across the school from Prep to Grade 6.
The implementation of the Respectful Relationships Program supports the promotion and modelling of respect and equality, and assists to teach our students how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence.
The classroom program focuses on 8 key areas:
Emotional Literacy: Students develop the ability to be aware of, understand, use vocabulary about and manage the emotional states of themselves and others.
Personal Strengths: Students develop a vocabulary to help them recognise and understand various strengths and positive qualities in themselves and others. They identify the strengths they admire in others and those they need to draw on to engage with the challenges and opportunities that life presents.
Positive Coping: Students develop language around coping, critically reflect on their coping strategies and extend their repertoire of positive coping strategies.
Problem-solving: Students learn a range of problem-solving techniques that can be applied when confronting personal, social and ethical dilemmas. They engage in applied learning tasks in which they apply their problem-solving skills to be realistic.
Stress management: This teaches students to learn a range of problem-solving skills through applied learning tasks, so that they are able to cope with challenges as they arise.
Help-seeking: Help seeking is a coping strategy that involves seeking technical, instrumental, social or emotional support from other people.
Gender and identity: These are age-appropriate learning activities that assist students to understand and critique the influence of gender norms on attitudes and behaviours (see clip linked below for an example of a discussion prompt).
Positive gender relationships: This teaches students to build positive relationships between and within genders, and the importance of accepting difference and diversity.
Activities are incorporated weekly into our teaching and learning programs.
CYBER SAFETY AT OATLANDS
Students today are growing up in a digital world. They are increasingly using digital technologies to learn, socialise and communicate.
At Oatlands Primary School, we recognise that it is essential for our students to be equipped with the skills, knowledge and confidence to
navigate the online world safely. Oatlands Primary School is affiliated with The Cyber Safety Project.
At Oatlands Primary School, we take reasonable steps to protect our students from any harm that may be encountered within the online learning environment, including:
Holistic policies, processes and programs that reflect the teaching and learning practices of our school, as well as the safe, responsible and respectful use of online and digital technologies.
Creation of clear processes and practices to manage classroom and online behaviour and response to any incident that may arise.
Implementation of The Cyber Safety Project’s Curriculum planning and documentation, that explicitly teaches safe, responsible and ethical online behaviours.
Implementation and awareness of our school’s policies, processes and programs throughout the Oatlands Primary School community.
All students annually sign an Acceptable Use Agreement to adhere to our school’s expectations and processes.
What is a Digital Footprint?
At Oatlands Primary School, all students learn to protect their own privacy and respect others’ privacy. Our digital world is permanent and with each post, students are building a digital footprint.
By encouraging our students to reflect, pause and think before posting online, they will consider how what they share online can impact themselves and others.
PARENT RESOURCES
Below are a list of parent resources that include available suggestions, resources and tips for ensuring a safe, secure and respectful online environment exists within the home environment as well.
The Cyber Safety Project - this resource allows for you to access tips and resources for assisting your child/ren when online.
Oatlands Primary School are partnered with the The Cyber Safety Project to bring a consistent community approach to online learning.
Office of the eSafety Commissioner - The Office is committed to helping young people have safe, positive experiences online and encouraging behavioural change, where a generation of Australian children act responsibly online—just as they would offline.
Think U Know Australia - ThinkUKnow is a partnership between the Australian Federal Police, Commonwealth Bank, Microsoft and Datacom and delivered in partnership with all State and Territory police and Neighbourhood Watch Australasia.
Presentations are aimed at parents, carers and teachers and young people from grades 3-12.
Bullying No Way! - The Bullying No Way! This website for Australian schools is managed by the Safe and Supportive School Communities Working Group which has representatives from all states and territories, including the Catholic and independent schooling sectors.
THE AIM OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO ALLOW OUR STUDENTS, PARENTS AND STAFF TO BE ENGAGED IN LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT DEVELOP FUTURE ONLINE SKILLS, LIFELONG HABITS AND SELF-REGULATION WHEN USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR WORK, LIFE AND PLAY.
We focus on the following learning:
Online Privacy & Security
Social Profiles
Safe Posting Protocols
Online Gaming
Digital Wellbeing
Digital interactions & Screen Time
Building a common language in our school community, provides us with the insights and information about popular social networking and online gaming platforms for young people today. A positive and healthy family environment where digital use is encouraged, but managed effectively can be a tough balance. As a school community we want to ensure our children stay safe online and build positive digital habits.
Thank you for your positive and ongoing support with this. Remember to share anything you know with at least two others and we can spread this extremely integral message; Cyber Safety!
CLICK HERE to view the Parent Portal, to print off resources to use at home, including the The Family Digital Agreement to work on with your family.
THERAPY DOG PROGRAM
Meet Archie! Archie is an accredited Therapy Dog who works with our school psychologist, Holly Wilson. Archie has undergone intensive training to be suitable to work in a school setting and he wears a special identification coat when at school.
Archie is extremely patient, loving and loyal and he is a great companion to the staff and students at Oatlands Primary School. Archie can join in class activities or sometimes he just sits quietly in the classroom while being patted. Some children are lucky enough to get special individual time with Archie. Archie especially loves it when children read to him or play with him.
Research shows that dogs are remarkable at lowering stress and anxiety levels and in doing so often defuse imminent explosions of frustration or negative behaviours. They can be a great way to encourage desirable behaviours and teach children to be calm in the classroom. Research shows that children find the non-judgmental ears of a therapy dog the perfect choice to improve their academic skills, particularly reading. Research also shows the benefits of having therapy dogs working with children who have additional needs.