This year Siena Primary is partnering with The Resilience Project to support student wellbeing and mental health.
The Resilience Project delivers emotionally engaging programs to schools, sports clubs and businesses, providing practical, evidence-based mental health strategies to build resilience and happiness. Through presentations, school curriculum and proven strategies the project will instil the qualities of Gratitude,
Empathy and Mindfulness, and easy ways to practise these in everyday life. also incorporate Emotional Literacy to support children to know and use language to support their well-being.
We call it our GEMs – and try to be Grateful, show Empathy and practice Mindfulness.
Some of the practices include the children sharing at the end of the day one thing they are grateful for. Practicing being grateful each day forms a habit to look for the positiveness in life and be thankful for those gifts. In the picture below, is the Year 3P Gratitude tree. On the leaves are things, people, and experiences that they are grateful to have in their lives. The title for the tree is: Within the feeling of GRATITUDE is the seed of kindness!

Stella Maris Primary School 

Our school community finished Term 1 with a special liturgical service to reflect and pray on the events and lessons of Holy Week.  Every year level took on a particular part of the story to lead and did so through drama, music and dance.  Our Preps started us off, waving palm branches and singing ‘Hosanna!’ before listening to the story of Palm Sunday.  Year 3 helped us to reflect on the Last Supper before Year 2 modelled the ‘Washing of the Feet’ as we sang a song about Jesus calling us to service.  Year 4 used liturgical dance to assist us to focus on how Jesus must have been feeling on Holy Thursday evening in the Garden of Gethsemane, while Year 5 took us through the sombre events of Good Friday with a dramatic procession of the cross.  How lucky are we that we know the story doesn’t end there!  Year 1 and Year 6 helped us to focus on the gift of hope that comes from Jesus’ Resurrection.

We continued the story this week, reflecting on the Emmaus story from the Gospel of Luke.  As we journey together through this term, we pray that we may all see the risen Christ in the people and moments of each day.

Siena Catholic College