Student Wellbeing

At Rangeview, we are very proud to run The Resilience Project across all levels from Foundation to Year 6. The key focus areas of The Resilience Project are Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy. Our students participate in explicit lessons every week that aim to improve understanding and application of these values, and the approach of The Resilience Project is built into all areas of the school. Teaching positive mental health strategies have been proven to help people become happier and more resilient.

At Rangeview Primary School we are proud to be a Lead School in the Department of Education’s Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships curriculum. This is taught across the school from Foundation to Level 6. This curriculum has been designed to develop students’ social, emotional and positive relationship skills, and supports the work we are doing with The Resilience Project. Efforts to promote social and emotional skills and positive gender norms in children and young people has been shown to improve health related outcomes and subjective wellbeing.

At Rangeview Primary School we also run the Peaceful Kids Program and utilise many strategies from the Berry Street Education Model.

‘Peaceful Kids’ is a Mindfulness and Positive Psychology based program to lessen anxiety and stress and increase resilience in children. The program has been created to fulfil a need in schools to offer all children a developmentally appropriate program that gives children the skills, practice and support to utilise coping strategies that lessen the symptoms of anxiety and stress.

Outcomes of the Peaceful Kids program:

• Lessen symptoms of anxiety and stress in children
• Teaches children to self-calm
• Empowers children to manage their own anxiety and stress symptoms
• Builds emotional resilience
• Develops emotional intelligence skills
• Teaches children life-long skills to manage stress and prevent stress build up
• Supports children so they know that they are not alone with suffering from anxiety

Peaceful Kids is based on evidence based therapies and research:

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR)
• Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT)
• Positive Psychology
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

The Berry Street Childhood Institute is an independent child and family services organisation. All of their work comes from the simple premise that all children should have a good childhood. They work with many children with a trauma background and often with children in the Out of Home Care / Foster system. They have developed an evidence based education model – the Berry Street Education Model.

Although thankfully, many of our students have not experienced trauma, our teachers are able to use positive psychology strategies in their classrooms when they are needed.

If you have any questions about our Rangeview Wellbeing programs, please contact Assistant Principal, Liam Sommers.