At Lilydale High School, we understand the importance of wellbeing as the foundation for academic and personal growth. We prioritise the mental, physical, and emotional health of our students through a variety of initiatives:
- Mental Health Support: Access to counselling services and mental health professionals ensures that students have access to the support they need.
- Physical Health: Our comprehensive range of physical education and sports programs, combined with health education, promotes physical well-being and the importance of regular physical activity.
- Social-Emotional Learning: our Health and Thrive curriculum includes social-emotional learning components, teaching students valuable life skills such as resilience, empathy, gratitude and social skills.
Our multidisciplinary team includes counsellors, a mental health practitioner and an occupational therapist, together with external provider partnerships offer an extensive support system.
The Wellbeing Team is equipped to assist our students with a variety of mental, social and emotional issues, including:
- Mental health concerns
- Supporting learning needs
- School refusal and engagement
- Navigating social and behavioural difficulties
- Connecting families to external community supports
- Conflict resolution
- Risk-taking behaviours
- Uniform and learning resources support
There are three primary ways students can access the Student Wellbeing Team for support:
- Self-Referral
- Staff Referral
- Parent Referral
Parents and Carers can make an appointment to speak to the Wellbeing team by calling the School Office on 9735 5644 or emailing via studentservices@lilydalehs.vic.edu.au
Respectful Relationships is a Victorian Department of Education and Training initiative that promotes and models respect, equality, and resilience.
The initiative’s key aims are to:
- Promote a respectful environment that extends beyond the classroom and into the wider community.
- Teach children how to build resilience, confidence, and emotional literacy, helping them to build healthy relationships throughout their lives.
- Promote gender equity and challenge gender stereotypes, which is a key component in the prevention of gender-based violence and family violence.
Our Child Safety Officer/s work with the school leadership team, teachers, students, volunteers and the school community to create a child-safe environment in the school.
