Dear Quinns Beach Primary School Families,
Welcome back everyone for Term 3! It’s been a chilly and rainy start to the term, but despite this staff and students have settled back well into routines after our two-week break. I hope you are all rested and ready for a busy term ahead. We have lots to look forward to with athletics events, school photos, excursions, Book Week, P & C Father’s Day Stall, and swimming. In between all these exciting events students will be of course busy working through their curriculum with their teachers.
Goal Setting
As a staff we have been delving into the research of ‘hope theory and resilience’ and how this is interconnected with goal setting. Goal setting provides us with direction and purpose. It supports us to focus and be motivated, as well provide us opportunities for growth and space to share failure and success. Goal setting, when planned out well, gives us a clear ‘road map’ for where we want to go and what we want to achieve.
Setting attainable and achievable goals with our students is an important skill not only for school, but for life. Setbacks or barriers are inevitable, but it is how we plan for these barriers that is important. Setbacks enable us to work on our growth mindset and through this develop resilience. Despite the setbacks along the way, we can problem- solve and work through these to reach the goal. Here we experience success and the motivation to further challenge ourselves.
Staff have been working on goal setting with their classes and are using a framework to help scaffold attainable and measurable goals. For more information, please speak to your child’s teacher.
The Resilience Project
Working on our emotional literacy gives us opportunities to develop our ability to understand and express different emotions. When we improve our emotional literacy, we can work towards recognising our own feelings and our ability to manage them. This allows us to cope with different life situations, such as managing conflict, making friends, coping in difficult situations, and being resilient when dealing with change.
Whole Family Activity – Feelings Charades
Gather as a family, this might be around the dinner table, lounge room, or around the fire outside.
Take turns to act out a feeling or emotion. Use your face and body language to act this out, for example: Make an angry face and stamp your feet.
Other family members need to guess the feeling or emotion.
After someone has guessed the feeling/emotion, have family members discuss a time they have felt this way before and why. If it was a negative emotion, how did they overcome it?
Family Habit Builder
Around the dinner table, ask everyone to share a feeling they felt during that day. Discuss how they dealt with that feeling and then discuss and share strategies you could use when faced with particular feelings.
Reading Importance of Reading
Promoting a love of reading and reading with our children helps develop their cognitive skills. With skills attainment in the younger years of life being an important factor in explaining success later-on in life.
Research has proven that the frequency of reading to children at a young age has a direct causal effect on their schooling outcomes regardless of their family background and home environment.
Reading aloud improves children’s knowledge and vocabulary, as well as their writing and comprehension. Parents listening to their children read aloud and families supporting their children’s learning can increase a child’s confidence and sense of security.
Reading to, and with children, also has social and emotional benefits – promoting a positive mood and sense of wellbeing. You can read aloud with your children anywhere – at home and out and about – and use a range of items including books, brochures, song lyrics and cookbooks.
If your child is a reluctant reader at home, please see your child’s teacher for further support as there are strategies that they will be able to share with you.
Happy reading everyone and remember it’s not too late to sign up for the 2024 Premier’s Reading Challenge.
Premier’s Reading Challenge – Premier’s Reading Challenge (premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au)
Playground update
There have been a few inquiries about our new playground ship. To date, we have a design completed and we are currently working with the Department of Education to run a tender process. We are aiming to start works before the end of term but I will keep you updated as we work through the process.
Have a great term everyone.
Ms Meyer
Principal