Wellbeing
Trauma Informed Schooling
Trauma informed Schooling aims to achieve a safe environment for all. It provides academic, social-emotional and behavioural supports to trauma affected students and promotes their engagement and success in learning.
At Truro Primary School all staff have engaged in The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) training and development. We have a focus on being ‘Ready to Learn.’ Being Ready to Learn requires an individual to:
- feel safe (safe to make mistakes, physically safe, emotionally safe),
- have clear boundaries (articulated expectations, high accountability, consistency),
- have a plan to practise and support regulation for when things go wrong.
To support individuals to be ‘Ready to Learn’ we aspire to:
- create an environment that is intentionally built to support the development of student mindsets, academics and social/emotional wellbeing.
- teach the necessary skills and knowledge to support individuals to regulate and respond in a variety of simple and complex situations.
- build and maintain a staff knowledge, practice and culture that is modelled by our behaviours and decisions as a school.
Together we want to model, teach and prepare individuals to be able to navigate the world around them with the tools, knowledge and confidence to flourish and support others to do the same
Learner Support and Inclusion
At Truro Primary School learners with additional needs will receive support through quality differentiated teaching practices; and in some cases will receive additional or more substantial support where required, depending on individual student needs, verifications and specific funding.
We have an Autism Inclusion Teacher (AIT) who works with staff, students and families identifying the best ways to support and educate Autistic students in the context of our school. The AIT also supports the development, tracking and monitoring of all students on a Oneplan and may help with referrals to Student Support Services (Gawler Office) where required.
Targeted intervention programs are run throughout the year for identified students. All staff engage in regular training and development to ensure students receive quality support across all areas of their learning. Special support programs and explicit teaching sessions currently provided at Truro Primary School include:
- Multi-lit
- Maths for Learning Inclusion
- Interoception & self-regulation
- Fine-motor & Coordination
- Phonics & phonemic awareness – Heggerty Program
National Student Wellbeing Program (NSWP)
The new Federal funded National Student Wellbeing Program is delivered at Truro Primary School by our Pastoral Care Worker, Jolie Zadow two days a week. The program provides supports that focus on social and emotional wellbeing of students and it complements our existing wellbeing programs and services available through the school. It’s not a religious instruction or religious counselling program.
Wellbeing initiatives at Truro Primary School include:
- Seasons for Growth – a trauma informed early intervention program explicitly teaching young students the knowledge and skills required to build emotional literacy and resilience.
- Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden – a growing, harvesting and preparing food program to promote healthy living and wellbeing. The program is integrated across all areas of the curriculum. Kitchen and garden lessons are run weekly across the school.
- Breakfast Club – Every Thursday morning students are provided with a special cooked breakfast as they arrive at school. This program helps students to be ‘Ready to Learn’.
- Kimochis (meaning feelings in Japanese) – a social and emotional learning program teaching young students through stories, real characters and songs.
- Café 6 – a school initiated transition program for year 6 students designed to develop emotional wellbeing and readiness for high school. This program starts during term 3 each year.