Welcome back to all of our students and families. We hope you enjoyed your holiday break.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to all of the new students and families who have joined our school community this year.
Welcome also to the two new members of our teaching staff, Nelli (Grade 5/6) and Jolie (Grade 1/2).
Whats new in 2013?
School Website:
Coburg Primary School has updated the school website. Let us know what you think of the fresh new look. http://www.coburgps.vic.edu.au/
The
staff has recently completed a professional development training day on a new
program we plan to introduce to the school this year. The Program is called “You Can Do It!”
“You
Can Do It!” founder Michael Bernard, a highly acclaimed psychologist who is a
professor at Melbourne University and an international consultant to education
organisations, believes that education’s
main purpose
is to support communities, schools, and homes in a collective effort to
optimise the social, emotional, and academic outcomes of all young people.
The program he developed
has a unique contribution in that it identifies the social and emotional
capabilities that all young people need to acquire in order to be successful in
school, experience well being, and have positive relationships including making
contributions to others and the community.
YCDI’s
mission
is to achieve, through the following beliefs and actions:
The building of social, emotional, and
motivational capacity of young people rather than on their problems and
deficits.
- The encouragement of prevention,
promotion, and intervention efforts (school, home and community) in order
to build the social and emotional strengths of young people.
- The development of a strength-building
approach, where YCDI seeks to build the capabilities of adults (community,
school, home) associated with positive outcomes in young people.
Staff will begin
introducing this program next week and we will be giving you updates about it
frequently via the newsletter and through assemblies on Monday mornings. We hope you will support this program and all
it aims to do. Social and emotional learning is as important as
academic learning. If we want out children to grow and develop into
responsible, caring individuals achieving to their potential, then this program
will help us to enable our children to do this.
Coming up....
Keep checking the blog and the school newsletter for the latest on the activities happening around the school.
We have a new group of Eco-Warriors who will be working together and with the school community to introduce sustainable initatives to the school.
