Wellbeing 

Full of hope and Functioning Well

NVCCS defines wellbeing as being 'full of hope and functioning well'.

We seek to be guiding students into positive expectations by looking forward with hope, purpose and positivity and building coping skills and supportive relationships in God’s world.

All of our teaching staff are involved in Social Emotional Learning instruction and administering wellbeing programs seeking to help students truly achieve their potential in partnership with carers and the broader community.

Social Emotional Learning supports students to acquire and apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. These social and emotional skills or capabilities are developed through explicit instruction, peer and adult modelling and opportunities to practice or rehearse skills across a range of contexts.



Pastoral Care

NVCCS is committed to the use of evidence-based strategies to develop student’s social emotional skills, build resilience, and support learning. Our multi-faceted universal Social-Emotional Wellbeing Initiative includes:

• Peer Support – Student leaders working with younger students
• Open Parachute – wellbeing lessons delivered within year groups
• Zones of Regulation – lower primary emotional self-regulation
• Teen Brave – Online sexual content, consent and self-regulation for High School
• Peace Wise – lower Highschool conflict resolution lessons



Wellbeing Team and Additional Support

 When significant social and emotional concerns arise, the Wellbeing Team play a lead role in working alongside students requiring additional support. Wellbeing supports will vary according to need, but include providing group or individual interventions that may be concerned with:

• Addressing and resolving specific mental health incidents. Including (but not limited to) health promotion, building resilience, empathy, interpersonal skills, healthy coping strategies and enhancing school belonging
• Stress management
• Coping with crisis
• Improving relationships with others



Wellbeing Counsellor

NVCCS is committed to providing quality Christian education to students. In an effort to achieve this goal, parents/guardians or school staff may refer students for counselling, or students may request meetings with the Wellbeing Counsellor.

The focus of the wellbeing counselling program is to help students better understand themselves, the world they live in and make better decisions that help them to be full of hope and function well.

There is no cost for counselling services provided at NVCCS. However, school counselling services are not able to provide medical or psychological assessment or permanent, ongoing counselling services. These services are most suitably accessed externally through community-based providers.

The Wellbeing Counsellor is a great first point of contact and after a period of support, in discussion with students and parents/guardians, will be able to assist in referral to appropriate external community services should the need arise.

Chaplaincy

Together with the Wellbeing Team the Chaplain has an integral role at NVCCS in additional wellbeing support. This is relayed with a listening ear and a helping hand for students, families and staff as they participate in the life of our school. By nurturing a sense of connection, providing support, encouraging hope, and giving practical help they seek to foster a positive holistic experience as we learn together.

The Chaplain provides insight and influence in our weekly assemblies for both Primary and Secondary working with teaching staff to provide spiritual input. The Chaplain also runs weekly, age specific CRU Groups and prayer meetings to give our students a chance to explore matters of faith in a less formal setting.