Welcome to the MacKillop Education Wellbeing Hub
During these uncertain times, it’s important to look after your child’s wellbeing and safety. There are many things you can do at home to help build and sustain your child’s wellbeing and create positive environments where they can learn and flourish.
Our MacKillop Education Wellbeing Hub is a space for you to explore our growing range of resources, tips and information to provide safe, supportive and positive learning environments at home. Watch our video series or view more information below.
Strategies for remote learning
At the MacKillop Education Geelong, Key Teacher, Richard Bullock, and Educational Psychologist, Jesse Diggins discuss some short, high-impact strategies for learning at home.
Wellbeing resources
Explore our resources below to help support your child’s wellbeing and learning. Simply click on the tabs for more information and factsheets on each of the topics.
Sleep routines
Sleep is essential to humans, just like air, water and food. Getting a good night’s sleep is like a mental health booster! Yet, many of us don’t pay as much attention to it as we should. The tip sheet below outlines strategies for developing a healthy sleep habits and routine.
Remote learning
Below the pdf considers various aspects of remote learning including Routines, Expectations and Boundaries, Acknowledgement, Engagement and Motivation, Environment and Hope.
Accomplishments
Having goals in life, either big or small, and making efforts to achieve them can help to increase wellbeing. Supporting children to acknowledge their individual achievements helps to build self-esteem and provides a sense of accomplishment.
Self-care
Self-care is the practice of looking after yourself and treating yourself as someone who deserves care. During stressful and chaotic times it can be easy for this to become the first thing that gets neglected. However, you can’t pour from an empty cup. You need to look after yourself so you are better able to help the children in your care.
Meaning
The idea of living a meaningful life is being a part of something bigger and doing things that go beyond living for ourselves. When we have things in our lives that bring us meaning we are happier, more connected, and have more positive self-esteem and overall wellbeing.
Community Meetings
The Community Meeting is a routine that occurs at MacKillop Education for both staff and students twice a day which involves taking turns to ask specific questions to members of a group.
Visual timetables
Creating routine and structure within this uncertainty can be hugely supportive for students. One way to do this is by creating predictable routines and using visual schedules
Returning to school after COVID
Coming back to school is likely to have a big impact on kids in many ways. Here are a few tips (a summary of suggestions made by Catholic Education Melbourne) that may help you at this challenging time.