Welcome to Week 5, the half-way point of the term! The Wellbeing Team have referred to this week as ‘Wellness Week’, focussing on providing strategies and tools to improve wellbeing amongst our staff and school community. It is a really healthy idea to take stock of how we are all going, physically, mentally and spiritually. Sometimes, we can get so caught up on being the responsible adults who need to take care of others, that we neglect our own wellbeing. Very often, if we do take a small amount of time-out to look after ourselves, we feel guilty about doing so, as if the idea of taking time for ourselves is a selfish one! In actual fact, taking time out to make sure that we are doing okay helps us to be in a better position to give support to others. Maybe put the kettle on, or grab a coffee and do the Wellbeing Stocktake below, and then look at some of the provided ‘Sleeping Tips’ and ‘Wellness Tools’ provided.

Wellness Stocktake
•    How am I sleeping? (Do I have trouble falling asleep or do I wake in the night and can’t get back to sleep?) 
•    How do I feel at this moment? Mentally and physically? 
•    What is taking the most of my headspace? 
•    Am I anxious, stressed or heightened in anyway? 
•    Am I taking care of myself (am I eating well and looking after my body?) 
•    How is my family life?
•    Am I triggered easily? 
•    Do I engage in behaviours to ease my pressure/stress (ie. Drinking alcohol to fall asleep, overeating, over exercising)?
•    Am I regularly doing things that are “life giving” to me? ie. Spending time with friends, cooking, gardening etc. 
•    Do I need to give attention to anything in my life in order to help my overall wellbeing? 

Sleeping Tips
•    Get enough sleep! This will be different for each person. 
•    Do not eat a big meal or lots of sugar before bed. Your digestion and glucose level will think it’s a party! 
•    If you have things on your mind before you sleep, put a notebook and pen by your bed and write out the things you need to give attention to the next day. Get it “out of your mind” and into a “plan” for the following day. 
•    Wind down before bed without screens. Read a book, do your devotions etc. Beware of scrolling through social media as minutes turns into hours! Be mindful that time on your phone before bed can alert you to incoming work emails that may not relax your mind before sleeping.
•    If you wake in the night, do not lay in bed for a long time. Get up and do something relaxing like reading. When you are tired again, return to bed.

Wellness Tools
•    Move your body! 
•    Listen to music 
•    Ride a bike 
•    Spend time with friends 
•    Get into nature 
•    Spend time with Jesus 
•    Take a bath 
•    Talk to someone 
•    Take a break or nap 
•    Declutter or organise 
•    Cry 
•    Read a book 
•    Go for a walk or hike 
•    Visualize 
•    Garden or yardwork 
•    Eat healthy 
•    Sing or dance 
•    Cook or bake 
•    Play with a pet 
•    Drink enough water 
•    Play a sport 
•    Take slow mindful breaths 
•    Write in journal  
•    Do some craft

Remember, it is okay to spend a short time each day to doing an activity to replenish our personal wellbeing. In fact, looking after ourselves will help us look after our family better. 

At the beginning of this year, each class was given a Hope Village Sponsor Child to raise money to care for them and send them to school. 3HR have already raised an amazing $71.15 to go towards clothing, food and education of their Sponsor Child. Congratulations 3HR, well done!

This term, the SRC will be holding a Casual Clothes Day on Thursday 23rd of March, Week 7. They will be sending out fliers and posters advertising the event in the coming days. Students can wear school appropriate casual clothing for the cost of a gold coin donation. The SRC wrote to the Principal of Hope School to ask where the biggest need was in the school. A list of suggested projects that money could be raised for was provided, and the students in the SRC were so moved that the Indonesian students didn’t have a grassed garden area to play on, or seats to sit on to enjoy a garden during play breaks, they have decided the money raised in the Casual Clothes day will go towards establishing a grassed area, a garden and park benches.

Sibling Priority for 2025

If your child is due to start Reception with us here at Bethany Christian School in 2025 and you have not heard from our Enrolment Officer, please ensure you call the school to secure your child’s position.

Interviews to fill our 2025 Reception classes will commence in May and a secured position may not be available after this time.

Withdrawal Policy

Should you decide to transfer your children to another school, then the school requires written notification one term in advance of the withdrawal of the children. This enables the school to plan ahead with possible enrolments to replace the children. If written notification is not given, then one term’s fees will be charged as per the Withdrawal Policy which is signed at the time of enrolment.