Assistant Head of Gioia House

Being a responsible digital citizen

During our Gioia House Pastoral and Community Time, the students took part in an online Responsible Digital Citizenship session with a theme of Online Boundaries and Consent. The session began with an online interactive video that shared key points to consider and appropriate behaviour when online.

The activities developed by the eSafety Commissioner are designed to support students as they learn about online consent and permission, and how to define online boundaries.

By the end of the session, the students were able to:

• identify consent and permission in a variety of online settings
• define and practise setting personal boundaries online
• develop help seeking and reporting strategies.

The online video allowed students to experience different real-life scenarios, followed by the opportunity to discuss the appropriate action in different situations. All students were highly engaged, reflecting on what it means to be a responsible digital citizen and how their words and actions can impact others.

The eSafety Commissioner online website has useful resources specific to different age groups. It also contains free online webinars which parents can register for to ensure we continue to keep up to date with current issues and strategies to help support our children.

eSafety Commissioner Parents Page: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents

Action Girls

In Gioia House, we continually encourage all our students to be Action Girls. We acknowledge the positive qualities students display in the classroom, around the school, at school events, how they treat fellow peers and their teachers and they look after our school environment.

Last week Mrs Watkins shared how proud she was of the Gioia House Representative Dance Group who competed over the weekend at Ryde Eisteddfod. The students demonstrated their ability to show maturity and self-regulate when they were initially faced with the challenge when their music did not play, the students had to gracefully leave the stage. Once the students recomposed themselves and returned to the stage to complete their routine, the wrong music played, the students once again remained calm and professionally waited for their correct song. Once the correct music began the students performed their routine confidently, making their Dance teachers, parents and Santa Sabina Community proud. The students were also awarded first place for their performance. Well done girls!

Ms Azizian awarded all the Gioia House Representative Dance Group an Action Girl Award. 

Congratulations to our Action Girls:

Bella Ayoub
Amelia Baltinos
Esther Chiew
Ariane Cutrupi
Alira Djordjevic
Zoe Garrett
Scarlett Ghossein
Sophia Gomesis
Christina Jabuka
Eloise Lai
Elena Magri
Bianca McLeod
Elise Schojer
Khaleesi Staveris
Sydney Truong
Zara Zaika

Friendology Program

This term, all Gioia House students will continue to focus on a skills-based social and emotional learning program – URSTRONG: Friendology – that helps build children’s skills in fostering and maintaining healthy friendships. It aims to assist students in developing the skills, language and self-confidence to be better friends and develop a solid foundation for future healthy relationships. 

The key areas that are taught in each lesson include:

• Building Self-Worth 
• Bullying Prevention 
• Conflict Resolution 
• Healthy Relationships 
• Case studies
• How to Get Real 
• How to Make Friends & How to be a Great Friend 
• How to Put out Friendship Fires 
• How to be a Friendship Ninja 
• How to handle Tricky Situations 
• How to Take Control & Feel Heard 
• How to remember U R STRONG! 

Our Vision for Friendology for our students is to develop life-long skills, strategies, language, and understandings about friendships and relationships that will enable them to foster healthy relationships.   

 

Marisa Maks
Assistant Head of Gioia House