St Catherine's School

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Student Wellbeing

A Whole School Approach

At St Catherine's, an extensive Wellbeing program is in place across the School, which aims to foster principled, well balanced, grounded, compassionate and strong girls, through the provision of:

• Curricular programs eg drug education, sex education, bullying, values education
• Parent education evenings and courses
• Parent and teacher meetings (Educational Support Groups) which ensure consistent and close communication  and feedback to parents on student progress and wellbeing
• A range of support and extension learning activities for students (with regular evaluation) on essential skills eg language, literacy, numeracy, research, planning
• Working with students on homework tasks and effective work and study skills
• Close communication between Wellbeing staff and class teachers, and parents.

Led by the Principal, Mrs Sylvia Walton, our expert team of educators and wellbeing staff, including Mrs Patty Wallace-Smith, Director of Curriculum and VCE, Mrs Lyn Henshall, Director of Student Wellbeing, Mrs Alana Moor, Head of ELC and Barbreck and the Director of the ELC, are committed to, and focused on, ensuring the academic success, personal development, health and wellbeing of students.

A Contemporary Focus on Health and Personal Development

In response to the increasingly complex world that our students have to navigate, we are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to teach our students an enhanced Health and Personal Development (HPD) course in 2009, which addresses the developmental needs of our students more effectively.

While government has requirements for the delivery of health, social education and wellbeing courses, we acknowledge the increasingly challenging choices our young people must make within an ethical framework. We are confident that our Years 5-12 students (and particularly our Years 7-10 girls), will benefit greatly from this renewed approach to the area of health and personal development.