From the Principal

Dear Parents

Re: Wellbeing Initiative – Classroom Pulse ‘Check In’

The shifting dynamics of these unprecedented times continue to highlight that your child’s relationships, identity, belonging, and learning are essential to their happiness and success at school.

This term every student in a Catholic School in South Australia will participate in a simple online Classroom Pulse Check In. This Check In has been developed to ascertain how students are currently feeling about their experience in school. It is tailored to allow your child’s teacher(s) to check in and provide immediate feedback and support to them. The Check In will be carried out during the school day.

I am conscious that life in school has its ups and downs, but I am also confident that your child’s teachers want to understand how they are feeling so they are able to support you and your child in meeting any social, emotional, or learning needs that they may have. To enable this, your child’s teacher and I will have access to their responses to facilitate follow up and support as required. Please be assured, as your child’s prime caregiver that any support required will be communicated and discussed with you in advance.

As you can see below, there are a range of simple questions about your child’s life at school, their identity as a person and a learner, their sense of belonging, safety, and friendships.

For each statement, students will select whether they feel it applies to them “most of the time,” “sometimes” or “not very often”. Students in Reception – Year 3 will have emojis alongside the options to help them identify their feelings.

A sample of the Check In can be found here CESA Classroom Pulse

In addition to supporting your child, de-identified data from all participating schools will be used by Catholic Education SA to identify trends to assist in future planning for the support of the learning and wellbeing for students across South Australia. We believe this Check In will play an important part in supporting that goal and your child. The online survey will happen on Friday August 28th. Feedback from the survey to us will occur the following week. This information will be circulated to the whole community in due course with the follow up actions from the feedback.

Thank you for your anticipated support of this initiative and please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further clarification.

Kind regards
Greg Haynes

Principal