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The Department of Education Early Childhood Psychologists are running online workshops during term 3 for families.  Families do not need to register.  Please use the information below to join the workshop at the date and time advertised. 

Date: 24 August 2023, 8-10pm 

This workshop explores different problems parents commonly face at bedtime and some of the reasons why they happen. The skills children need to get into a good bedtime routine are discussed and parents are introduced to positive parenting strategies to help prevent problems. The approaches to encouraging children to stay in their own bed throughout the night are discussed. 

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Wednesday 7 June

12.00pm – 2.30pm

Child and Parent Centre – Westfield Park

11 Hemingway Drive

Camillo

This free workshop is available to families and will provide:

• Suggestion to make family mealtimes manageable.
• How to encourage your child to develop good eating habits.
• Foster mealtimes as ‘family time’.

Creche available – booking essential!

Booking: westfieldpark@parkerville.org.au or 9235 7004

“What if I was to tell you that a game of peek-a-boo could change the world?” asks seven-year-old Molly Wright, one of the youngest-ever TED speakers. Breaking down the research-backed ways parents and caregivers can support children’s healthy brain development, Wright highlights the benefits of play on lifelong learning, behaviour and well-being, sharing effective strategies to help all children thrive by the age of five.  

https://youtu.be/aISXCw0Pi94 

EXCELLENCE in Western Australia’s mental health sector was showcased and celebrated on Friday, 25 November at the WA Mental Health Awards ceremony. 

The Awards, which are presented by the Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH), commend the individuals, organisations, groups and projects for outstanding contributions to the state’s mental health sector and for benefitting the wellbeing of the WA community during the 2021 calendar year. 

The sold-out event at Pan Pacific Perth attracted a record crowd of 300 guests from the mental health and community sector, government including members of Parliament, the business and corporate community and the education sector. 

Congratulations to team Westfield Park, winners of this year’s WA Mentally Health Education Award! 

https://waamh.org.au/awards/winners-and-finalists/mentally-healthy-education-award

Today, Hon Sue Ellery BA MLC, Minister for Education and Training, announced that students with autism spectrum disorder will benefit from the expansion of Western Australia’s successful Specialist Learning Program (SLP) to eight additional locations. Westfield Park Primary School will provide SLP facilities from Term 1 2024. 

The program provides specialist and intensive support to students with autism – without intellectual impairment – who have the capacity to learn at or near their academic year level standard with support, but may have specific social and emotional development needs that are related to their autism. Applications for enrolments to the program will be open from Term 4 2023. 

To find out more click on the link below

https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2022/10/Autism-Specialist-Learning-Program-expanded-to-additional-schools.aspx

For the second year in a row, WPPS has been named a finalist in the Commissioner for Children and Young People of WA Mentally Healthy Education Award, to be announced at the WA Mental Health Awards on Friday 25th November. Big thank you to the Be You team for their efforts in submitting this application , and Congratulations to all staff for the hard work you put in every day to support the wellbeing of our school community.

To find out more see below

WA Mental Health Awards 2022 | WAAMH

Out of the ashes, rises the phoenix: Westfield Park Primary School’s stunning transformation

An “island of calm” is how Westfield Park Primary principal Steve Soames describes the school he has led for eight years.

It is the same primary school that a decade ago was reported to have some of the most vulnerable Year 1 students in the nation.

Most of them were not meeting key developmental benchmarks, including physical health and wellbeing, social competence and emotional maturity before entering school.

During Mr Soames’s first year at the school there were two meth lab explosions, one murder and a shooting in the catchment area.

Nestled in Armadale, one of Perth’s lower-socioeconomic outer suburbs, Westfield Park Primary was once a very different place to what it is today.

“It wasn’t a pretty picture … and there was a fairly fractured relationship with the community,” Mr Soames said.