Wellbeing

Holding high expectations for all students, implementing consistent classroom management and catering to wellbeing needs makes a difference, and at Marsden Road Public School (MRPS) we ensure that teaching and learning allows this to happen. Through ‘The Marsden Way Citizenship Program’, teachers at MRPS set school standards from the beginning of the year, teach students school expectations, and develop the mindset and habits to succeed.

How We Support Student Wellbeing

At MRPS we care about our students, and love seeing success, improvement and achievement. ‘The Marsden Way Citizenship Program’ has been designed to ensure all students understand school expectations and develop citizenship skills so they can connect, succeed, thrive and learn at school as informed citizens in an ever-changing world.

At MRPS, good citizenship emerges from teachers’ high expectations of all students, respect, wellbeing, routines, rules, reinforcement and consistent consequences. These expectations are applied uniformly across the school to ensure students are accountable for their behaviours and actions.

Through the ‘The Marsden Way Citizenship Program’ we:

• set high expectations and support students to always strive for their personal best.
• help students develop positive learning habits that support success in the classroom.
• clearly model the skills and attitudes needed to succeed at school and in life.
• guide students to take responsibility for their choices and understand that actions have fair and consistent consequences.
• foster pride in our school, our local community and our country.
• build students’ responsibility, self-discipline and resilience.
• encourage polite, respectful behaviour in all interactions with adults and peers.
• support students to learn from their choices and respond positively to consequences.
• actively teach, model and reinforce respect at all times.
• explicitly teach essential citizenship values before learning in key subject areas begins.

At MRPS, we explicitly teach Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) skills to help students build confidence, resilience and positive relationships. Through daily interactions and planned learning experiences, students develop skills such as managing emotions, showing empathy, solving problems and working cooperatively with others. These skills support students to succeed not only in the classroom, but also in life. The SEL content we teach includes:

• being happy
• positive thinking
• giving and receiving compliments
• including others
• listening and asking questions
• approaching and joining in
• playing fairly
• being a good winner
• being helpful
• sharing resources
• being interesting: telling an interesting story or having an interesting conversation
• self-acceptance
• asking an adult for help
• taking risks
• negotiating
• cooperating
• sharing
• respecting opinions
• being a good leader
• telling someone to stop annoying you
• responding to provocation
• saying no
• dealing with fights and arguments

Follow this link to view our school's SEL videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MarsdenRoadPS/playlists

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