Pastoral Care Report – November 29, 2018

2019 Pastoral Care Program: Information for- Parents

2019 will see the continuation of our whole school pastoral care program, implemented during -‘Pastoral Care’ extended class time.- The pastoral care program provides a sequenced curriculum from year 7 to 12, focused on developing the whole person, with the broad objective of developing and enhancing student work ethic, behaviour, resilience, and academic results.- The program centers around the model of social and emotional learning (SEL).- SEL curriculum is designed to assist students in building resilience, making good decisions, coping skills, managing conflict and emotions.- As a sub-set of the core SEL curricula, students will also gain an understanding in building and maintaining respectful relationships, cyber safety, child protection, and mindfulness.

A crucial aspect of this whole school program is in the education of child protection and safety.- In 2019, St Patrick’s College will continue to engage in the ground-breaking child protection program -‘Keeping Safe’.-

The 2019 pastoral Care program will contain the following:

Year 7 Pastoral Care Program

Term 1: Building Resilience

Building Resilience is a Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program that is designed to build students’ resilience through the development of their personal and social capabilities.- Resilience is the ability to cope and thrive in the face of negative events, challenges or adversity. Key attributes of resilience at an individual level include social competence; a sense of agency or responsibility; optimism and a sense of purpose or hope for the future; attachment to family, to school and to learning; problem-solving skills; effective coping style; pro-social values; a sense of self-efficacy; and positive self-regard.- Year 7 students will specifically focus on developing emotional literacy, personal strengths and positive coping skills.-

Term 2: Keeping Safe

In the junior school, students will learn about rights and responsibilities in relationships, power in relationships, abuse in electronic media, and bullying as an abuse of power

Term 3: Let’s Stop Bullying

Let’s Stop Bullying is an educational package that provides junior secondary students with the tools to deal with bullying, or recognise the bully in themselves is the first step in overcoming instances of bullying. Students will learn to recognise the signs of bullying, understand its impacts and learn what they can do about it.- The package includes fifteen activity worksheets, covering five capabilities, which align with AusVELS.- These include critical and creative thinking, personal and social capability, intercultural understanding, and ethical understanding.

Term 3 & 4: Cybersafety

During the Year 7 Pastoral Care program unit on cyberbullying, students will utilise the Commonsense Media curriculum, which is an educational package that navigates digital concepts such as cyberbullying, privacy, safety, copyright, strategic searching, and other digital dilemmas which enable students to learn positive behaviours surrounding the use of digital devices and digital media.- Students will also utilise the Keeping Safe curriculum, where students will learn about electronic media abuse, with regards to both the internet and digital devices.

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Year 8 Pastoral Care Program

Term 1: Building Resilience

Building Resilience is a Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program that is designed to build students’ resilience through the development of their personal and social capabilities.- Resilience is the ability to cope and thrive in the face of negative events, challenges or adversity. Key attributes of resilience at an individual level include social competence; a sense of agency or responsibility; optimism and a sense of purpose or hope for the future; attachment to family, to school and to learning; problem-solving skills; effective coping style; pro-social values; a sense of self-efficacy; and positive self-regard.- Year 8 students will specifically focus on developing skills in problem solving, stress management and help-seeking.

Term 2 & 3: Keeping Safe

In the junior school, students will learn about rights and responsibilities in relationships, power in relationships, abuse in electronic media, and bullying as an abuse of power

Term 4: Cybersafety

During the Year 7 Pastoral Care program unit on cyberbullying, students will utilise the Commonsense Media curriculum, which is an educational package that navigates digital concepts such as cyberbullying, cyber-scams and schemes, online personas and digital footprints, which will enable students to learn positive behaviours surrounding the use of digital devices and digital media.- Students will also utilise the Keeping Safe curriculum, where students will learn about electronic media abuse, with regards to concepts such as sexting and legal implications.

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Year 9 Pastoral Care Program

Whole Year: The Rite Journey

The Rite Journey is a unique educational program designed to support the development of self-aware, vital, responsible, respectful, and resilient adults.- The program is focused on the important transition from childhood to adulthood, which typically occurs in the middle years of secondary schooling.- This year-long program uses a Rite of Passage framework to deepen the students’ experience of this important life transition.- Throughout the school year, students engage in this program through six key concepts; consciousness, connection, communication, celebration, and challenge.- Each of these concepts are explored within term length topics: Relationship with self, Relationship with others, Relationship with spirit, and Relationship with the world.

Year 10 Pastoral Care Program

Whole Year: Thriving Mind / Building Resilience

Thiriving Mind is an evidence based educational program which the practice of positive psychology.- Students will initially attend a whole-day workshop, led by Romi Kaufman, a psychologist, who has word as the senior psychologist and the Head of Wellbeing at The Reach Foundation, as well as writing wellbeing based curriculum for the Black Dog Institute.- This workshop, which will focus on mindfulness, gratitude, resilience and character strengths, will be followed by lessons over the course of the academic year with the students’ Pastoral Care Tutor.- These lessons will be focused on concepts such as character strengths, empathy, gratitude, mindfulness and emotional literacy, which are explored under personal and social capabilities, such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social management.- –

Year 11 Pastoral Care Program

Whole Year: Men of Honour

Men of Honour is educational package created by Glen Gerreyn, which focuses on the concept that being born a male doesn’t entitle you to automatically call yourself a man, that being a man is a choice.- Being a good man is defined through the choices young men make.- This program will commence with an all-day workshop.- This workshop will include A Day of Hope, which is based on building a hope-filled future through contextualising the effects of external influences as well as encouraging critically thinking to counteract negativity, which will lead to students making healthy, informed choices.- The workshop will also include Men of Honour, which focuses on boys negotiating a very complex landscape of masculinity and determine how to become a good man, with regards to the portrayal of men in the media and the subsequent affects on male identity, as well as discussions surrounding exercise, nutrition, money and sex.- This workshop will be followed by lessons with the students’ pastoral care tutor throughout the school year.-

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Year 12 Pastoral Care Program

Building Resilience is a Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program that is designed to build students’ resilience through the development of their personal and social capabilities.- Resilience is the ability to cope and thrive in the face of negative events, challenges or adversity. Key attributes of resilience at an individual level include social competence; a sense of agency or responsibility; optimism and a sense of purpose or hope for the future; attachment to family, to school and to learning; problem-solving skills; effective coping style; pro-social values; a sense of self-efficacy; and positive self-regard.-

Year 12 students will specifically focus on contextualising the emotional landscape in their final year of schooling, developing study strengths, coping strategies and stress management, and utlising relaxation techniques.

Keeping Safe

In the senior school, students will learn about rights and responsibilities in relationships, abuse of rights in relationships, defining healthy relationships, self-protection and problem-solving strategies.

Key event dates for 2018 wellbeing calendar:

Year 7:

Brainstorm Productions

Student Workshop (During the day) – July 29

Link: http://brainstormproductions.edu.au/

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Mother / Son Night

Evening event -“ registration required -“ May 21

Link: http://www.time-space.com.au/

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Willie Green -“ Guest Speaker

Student Workshop (During the day) -“ May 23

Link: http://theyouthalliance.com/speakers/willie-green/

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Year 8:

Brainstorm Productions

Student Workshop (During the day) – July 29

Link: http://brainstormproductions.edu.au/

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Father / Son Night

Evening event -“ registration required -“ March 19

Link: http://www.time-space.com.au/

Willie Green -“ Guest Speaker

Student Workshop (During the day) -“ May 23

Link: http://theyouthalliance.com/speakers/willie-green/

Year 9:

Willie Green -“ Guest Speaker

Student Workshop (During the day) -“ May 23

Link: http://theyouthalliance.com/speakers/willie-green/

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Year 10:

Thriving Mind

Student workshop (during the day) -“ February 11

Link: http://twww.thrivingmind.com.au

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Year 11:

A Day of Hope / Men of Honour

Student workshop (during the day) -“ February 22

Student workshop (during the day) -“ March 23

Link: http://thehopefullinstitute.com

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Carmen Road Safety

Student workshop (during the day) -“ August 6

Link: https://motivationalspeakeraus.com.au/carmen

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For more information on our Pastoral Care program, please visit:

https://www.stpats.vic.edu.au/en/st-patricks-college/pastoral-care/

I would encourage all students and parents to fully engage and participate in all of our wellbeing programs on offer, as they are an integral element of our broader mission to educate the whole person.

Kind regards,

Bradley Murray

Pastoral Care Coordinator