Social and Emotional learning
At the core of our teaching at Preschool is supporting the students to build strong social and emotional connections. This includes knowing and understanding their own behaviour, recognising and having empathy for those around them and being aware of their environment to understand how their actions can affect nature and their surroundings. It is important to provide the children with opportunities to practice social skills such as:
● cooperation
● managing conflict
● making friends
● coping
● being resilient
● recognising and managing their own feelings.

The students are supported to manage ‘big emotions’ through their experiences and are encouraged to take responsibility for their own behaviours. A consistent, patient and individual child focussed approach is adopted to respond to each student's needs and development. The staff facilitate discussions, suggest ideas and guide change. As the ‘grown ups’ it is important for us all to listen as well as model to the children effective ways to communicate with love and kindness. Taking the time to talk about situations in ‘real’ time is important for the students to learn what to do in context.  To grow thoughtful, capable, empathetic citizen our students are learning to build social and emotional literacy through;
Self-awareness: Identifying and recognising emotions; recognising personal interests andstrengths; maintaining a well-grounded sense of self-confidence.
Self-management: Regulating emotions to handle stress, control impulses, and motivating oneself to persevere in overcoming obstacles, setting and monitoring progress toward the achievement of personal and academic goals; expressing emotions appropriately.
Social awareness: Being able to take the perspective of and empathise with others;
recognising and appreciating individual and group similarities and differences.
Relationship skills: Establishing and maintaining healthy and rewarding relationships based on cooperation and resistance to inappropriate social pressure, preventing, managing, and constructively resolving interpersonal conflict; seeking help when needed.
Responsible decision-making: Making decisions based on a consideration of all relevant factors, including applicable ethical standards, safety concerns, and social norms; the likely consequences of taking alternative courses of action; evaluation and reflection.

Science Week
All classes had a great time exploring the ‘Deep Blue Sea’ for Science Week. Thank you to our buddies who joined us at our Science Fairs and helped to explain and facilitate the great experiments.

Daffodil Day

28th to 31st - Thank you to everyone who has already donated to this great fundraiser. We will have the flowerpot available on Monday if any Bilbies would like to donate.