The Mother’s Day breakfasts were lots of fun! A big thank you to our fabulous mums for taking some time out to share breakfast with us at the ELC. We hope you had a delightful morning and enjoy the beautiful gifts your children created for you! You are much loved!!

This term we are excited to provide all our students with a mental health and well being program based around Resilience. The Resilience Project is the work of educator and speaker Hugh van Cuylenburg, some of you may be familiar with his podcast ‘The Imperfects’. Hugh is passionate about building resilience in young people after his experiences working as a teacher. The Resilience Project has designed a program especially for students in the Early Years that our students will be engaging with. This is our second year using the Resilience Project with our Preschool students. We learnt so much as educators last year, and found this program gave students such a great understanding of strategies they can use to build their own well being. We are really excited to be sharing this fabulous initiative with our students once again.

The program is based around the 4 GEM principles: Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy. We will be working through these strategies for building resilience and wellbeing with the students and engaging in activities that allow children to practice these principles. Classes will also be building routines into their weeks that provide students with opportunities to practice showing gratitude, empathy and mindfulness. 

As a part of the project each of the classes has a soft toy Koala and Class Journal. These will be brought home by a different student to share with their families each week. The class Journal activities are based around the 4 GEM principles, with simple things you can do at home with your child. 

If you would like to learn more about this initiative, you can visit the Resilience Project website using the link below. In the coming weeks we hope to share some webinars with you from this project, to support you as parents in building your child’s resilience and wellbeing.

https://theresilienceproject.com.au/2024-early-years-wellbeing-program/

Coming Up

• Monday 13/5 - Bilbies Class Mother's Day Breakfast & Cross Country at 12:15pm
• Tuesday 14/5 - Preschool Photos, Bilbies & Koalas class
• Wednesday 15/5 - Preschool Photos, Possums
• Wednesday 15/5 - St Thomas the Apostle Catholic Primary School Open Day
• Friday 17/5 - ELC & St Anthony's Parish Primary School Open Evening

We have had lots of Birhdays since the end of last term. 

We hope that Franklin, Oliver, Cora, Theodore, Letty, Emily & Isabelle F all had a wonderful day celebrating thier birthdays! 

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Click on your child's classroom picture below to see their class newsletter.