Looking After Our Girls – Wellbeing During These Difficult Times
As parents with your children at home, I don’t need to tell you how different this is from anything you and your family have experienced before. We have been very impressed with the way the girls have adapted to the remote learning platform and how positive the staff have found the “zooming” experience and being able to talk face to face with the girls.
Students Wellbeing at Home
As the number of COVID-19 cases rise in Australia, anxiety about the virus is understandably increasing. It is important to balance out ‘school as usual’ against the significant disruptions occurring across our community and addressing these directly with your daughter.
I know that the pastoral advisors have been engaging the girls during homeroom by giving them the opportunity to share how they are feeling and what they are doing to look after themselves, as well as providing them with ideas and sites to visit to help them. The common themes are ‘missing friends’ and ‘not being able to do sport, dancing’ and all those extra things that make up their routine. From next term we have an added service for the girls. They will be able to access our school psychologist for online sessions. Girls in Years 7 to 10 need to go through their Year Coordinator. Girls in Years 11 and 12 can make direct contact. A letter will be sent out via your daughter's Year Coordinator, as a number of permissions will need to be sought to ensure the protection of the girls and staff.
The Year Coordinators have lots of resources that they can share with you with suggestions of how to deal with this as a family unit and how to talk to your children and stay positive for them. Please feel free to contact your daughter’s Year Coordinator or myself should you need some support in this area. We are all travelling down this new road together and we will get through with love and support.
There are lots of sites that you and your daughter can get information from – and if you are unsure, please contact me and I can point you in the right direction.
Karen Wright - Assistant Principal Students