Our Lady of the River School eNewsletter

Life Education

In Week 10, our students will be visiting the Life Education Dome, which will be set up in our school hall. Life Education is a mobile health program that promotes student's physical, social and emotional health and wellbeing. It delivers an interactive curriculum based program to Preschools, Primary and Secondary schools, and is presented by expert educators in the field of health and wellbeing. This year Life Education Educator, Emily Petmann, will be working with each class on different topics centred around health and wellbeing.

The modules covered will be:

Years F/1

HAROLD'S FRIENDSHIP

After building a model spaceship at school, Harold and his friends, Boots and Red venture into an imaginary world in outer space. As the adventure unfolds children explore:

how to build friendships and care for others
feelings and emotions
safe and unsafe situations and early warning signs
safe places and people to turn to for help

Year 2

SAFETY RULES

Harold and his friends have gone camping, but when someone gets injured on a hiking expedition, how will they look after each other and make it back to camp? This module helps children to problem solve and focuses on:

recognising safe and unsafe environments
how to care for others
behaviours that maintain friendships
places and people who we can go to for help

Year 3

MIND YOUR MEDICINE

Using a friendly game show format Mind Your Medicine develops students’ understanding of medicines and their safe use, positive communication, strategies for managing conflict, stress, and bullying and explores how feelings influence the choices that we make. Students explore:

factors that influence someone’s sense of self-worth
techniques for effective communication
identifying the impact of different factors on health and wellbeing
strategies for managing stressful situations
medicines as drugs & the consequences of their misuse

Years 4 & Year 5

BCYBERWISE

This module focuses on cybersafety, cyber ethics and building positive relationships with friends online and offline. The students explore a range of issues such as password security, risks of sharing personal information, how to communicate respectfully both online and offline as well as:

responsible and respectful behaviour when using communication technology
skills for building positive relationships with friends
keeping personal information safe online
strategies to deal with bullying and cyberbullying
exploring the role of bystanders

Year 6

THINK TWICE

Using distinctive animated and vox-pop videos, this module tackles the topic of drinking alcohol in an age appropriate context. Students explore concepts such as the effect that alcohol has on body systems, laws relating to its sale and reasons why people choose not to consume alcohol. This module focuses on:

myths and facts surrounding the use of alcohol
strategies for responding to encouragement or pressure to drink
physical, social & legal consequences of alcohol use
strategies to reduce harmful effects of alcohol on self and others

Year 7

DECISIONS

This module offers a choice of content on legal drugs or legal and illegal drugs. Students explore the decision making process and improve decision making skills by looking at choices, consequences, responsibility, facts, and influences. This module also explores:

what is a drug and how drugs are classified
effects of drugs on the body
analysing health messages about drugs in the media
messages around non-use – normative data – dispelling myths
influences on decision making – family, peers, media, culture, financial, legal
strategies and skills to be safe

If you have any questions about Life Education you can look at the Life Education Website.

You can also find videos, easy to read information and other helpful resources to continue the learning at home on the following link.

www.lifeeducation.org.au/parents/