Dear Parents
This month in Wellness lessons in Middle School the Counselors will be teaching lessons about personal safety. This includes learning about:
- Identifying safe and unsafe situations to include emotional and physical safety
- Learning how to access support structures
- Learning how to act to stay safe
- Learning how to value themselves and others
These lessons support and complement our child safeguarding policy that is being implemented this year. Throughout November, students will become familiar with identifying situations that can make them feel safe or unsafe and learn how to respond by using safety steps to protect from harm.
The safety steps being taught include:
- Trusting your instincts around personal safety and becoming aware of your environment and the people in it that make it safe or unsafe
- Helping students learn assertiveness skills to keep them safe
- Report to a trusted adult and know how to seek help to protect them
We encourage you to chat with your child about keeping safe at school, in the community and online as well as at home. Please give them the important message that if someone has hurt them or made them feel uncomfortable, that they are not to blame and that as a young person they have right to be free from verbal and physical harm. It is never too late to share with a caring adult, so that a child feels heard, understood and protected.
To find out more please do attend our important parent workshop that will cover our child safeguarding board policy and procedures.
Parent Safeguarding Workshop: November 18th facilitated by K12 Psychologist and Counselors
Morning Session 8:00 until 9:00am and Evening 6:30 until 7:30pm
Thank you for collaborating with us, together we can strive to keep your children safe and happy.
Carmel Kean Janel Wilder Jackie Greenwood
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8