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Our Wellbeing Hub

Welcome to our Wellbeing Hub

At Sorrento Primary School, we believe children learn best when they feel safe, connected, understood and valued. Positive relationships, a strong sense of belonging and emotional wellbeing provide the foundation for learning and for life.

Our Wellbeing Hub offers an insight into our wellbeing approach, programs and supports, while also providing families with practical resources, articles and information to support children’s wellbeing both at home and at school.

Meet the Wellbeing Team
Wellbeing at Our School
Wellbeing Resources
Looking for Additional Support?

Meet Our Wellbeing Team

Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader
Charlotte Wilson - Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader
Iris supports students with additional learning, wellbeing and inclusion needs, working closely with staff, families and external professionals to help every student access and engage in learning. She also provides leadership for the wellbeing team in Charlotte's absence, ensuring consistent support across the school.
Iris O'Hara - Disability Inclusion Leader & Acting Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader
Dan works alongside the Wellbeing Team to oversee and strengthen whole-school wellbeing systems, student support processes and inclusive practices. He contributes to the development of proactive wellbeing initiatives and works collaboratively with staff to ensure every student is supported to thrive.
Dan Liu - Assistant Principal
Elaine provides strategic leadership for wellbeing across Sorrento Primary School, fostering a culture where connection, inclusion and belonging are valued. She works alongside the Wellbeing Team to support the development of whole-school wellbeing initiatives and ensure the wellbeing of students remains central to school life.
Elaine Lesiuk - Principal
Student Wellbeing & Engagement
Michelle Richens - Student Wellbeing & Engagement

Click on team member to see their description.

Wellbeing at our School

At Sorrento Primary School, wellbeing is embedded into everyday school life through a range of whole-school programs, proactive practices and targeted supports that foster connection, belonging, emotional wellbeing and positive engagement.

We know that every child is unique, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach to wellbeing. While every student benefits from our whole-school wellbeing approach, some children may require additional support at different times throughout their schooling.

Our approach is guided by our Student Support Framework, which ensures that support is proactive, collaborative and responsive to each child’s individual strengths, needs and circumstances. We work closely with classroom teachers, families, our Wellbeing Team and, where appropriate, external professionals to develop personalised supports that help every child feel safe, connected and ready to learn.

Depending on a student’s needs, support may include classroom adjustments, targeted wellbeing programs, small group interventions, individual check-ins, environmental supports or personalised wellbeing plans. Every student’s journey is different, but our commitment remains the same: to provide the right support, at the right time, in partnership with families.

The initiatives below are just some of the ways we bring this approach to life across our school community.

Initiative

Purpose

Morning Connection Circle

A daily classroom routine that strengthens connection, belonging and positive relationships, helping students start each day feeling safe, seen and ready to learn.

 Afternoon Connection Circle

A daily opportunity for students to reflect, reconnect, celebrate successes and finish the day positively as a class community.

Brain Battery (Years 3–6)

A visual framework that helps students recognise their energy levels, emotions and early signs of dysregulation, while developing strategies to return to a calm, ready-to-learn state. (Visual available below.)

Regulation Speedo (Prep–Year 2)

A visual framework that helps younger students recognise their energy levels, emotions and early signs of dysregulation, while learning simple strategies to return to a calm, ready-to-learn state. (Visual available below.)

Purple Pass

Provides students with purposeful regulation breaks, supporting them to regulate and successfully return to learning.

Calm Corners

Dedicated regulation spaces in every classroom, providing students with a safe place to pause, regulate and return to learning when ready.

Real Schools

Our whole-school restorative approach that strengthens relationships, develops accountability and supports students to repair harm and resolve conflict respectfully.

Respectful Relationships

A whole-school curriculum that explicitly teaches respectful relationships, emotional literacy, resilience and positive social behaviours.

Campfire Crew

A targeted small-group program supporting boys to develop connection, belonging, identity and respectful relationships.

Social Stencil

A targeted small-group program helping students strengthen friendships, confidence, emotional awareness and social skills.

Wellness Wednesday

Weekly articles and trusted wellbeing resources that support families and strengthen the home-school partnership.

Resources

Our growing library includes articles written by our Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader, alongside carefully selected resources from trusted organisations such as Be You and the Raising Children Network. Resources are also regularly informed by current research, evidence-based practice and professional learning undertaken through the Mental Health in Primary Schools (MHIPS) initiative and other wellbeing training.

As our Wellbeing Resource Hub continues to expand, resources will be grouped into dedicated categories, making it easier for families to quickly find the information, guidance and support they’re looking for.

Topics include:

  • Mental Health & Wellbeing
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Friendships & Relationships
  • Digital Wellbeing
  • Executive Functioning
  • Parenting
  • School Transitions
  • Resilience

 

Each Wednesday, we also share a new article or trusted wellbeing resource through our Wellness Wednesday series, providing practical ideas, evidence-informed strategies and valuable insights to support the wellbeing of our school community.

 
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Seeking Additional Support for your Child?

If you have concerns about your child’s social, emotional or mental wellbeing, we encourage you to contact your child’s classroom teacher in the first instance.

As the adult who spends the most time with your child each day, the classroom teacher is often best placed to gather observations, understand the context and begin working in partnership with you to support your child.

If further support is needed, your child’s teacher will work collaboratively with our Wellbeing Team and school leadership to determine the most appropriate next steps. This may include additional classroom supports, targeted wellbeing interventions, meetings with families or referral to the Wellbeing Team in line with our school’s Student Support Framework.

We believe the best outcomes are achieved when schools and families work together, and we are committed to providing timely, collaborative and individualised support for every student.

To get started, please contact your child’s classroom teacher via Compass or the school office.

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