EMPOWER - Wellbeing at Loreto Toorak

EMPOWER

Wellbeing at Loreto Toorak

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EMPOWER Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak offers a Catholic education which liberates, empowers, and motivates students to use their individual gifts with confidence, creativity and generosity in loving and responsible service.

We embrace the Loreto values of Freedom, Justice, Sincerity, Verity and Felicity. Through these, we foster a mutual respect and deep understanding of the individual, and a compassion for the broader community.

In a focused and caring learning environment, we empower young women to thrive with confidence. Our Wellbeing curriculum, woven into every aspect of a Loreto education, nurtures this confidence journey. From explicit curriculum taught from Preparatory – Year 10 and through pastoral programs in Years 11 – 12, we provide a supportive space for our students to explore their emotions, develop resilience to stress, and build critical skills such as metacognition and self-regulation. Our approach cultivates self-care habits, fosters positive relationships, and boosts academic performance. Through our school-wide strategy, we instill a culture where confidence flourishes among our students, shaping them into empowered leaders of tomorrow.

By empowering our students to understand and prioritise their wellbeing and mental health, we aim to create a generation of confident, compassionate and capable young women.

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EMPOWER EMPOWER is inspired by the life

believed in the importance of

of our foundress, Mary Ward,

the holistic development of each

who devoted her life to promote

person, both of heart and mind.

the education and empowerment of women.

She called her followers to truly know themselves, and “to be

Mary Ward believed that

such as we appear and appear

women should have the same

such as we are”. From this

opportunities as men to pursue

journey into self knowledge and

education, knowledge and

self acceptance, and in the light

spiritual growth. She wanted

of our faith, Mary Ward calls us

young women to reach their

to become “seekers of truth and

full God given potential and

doers of justice” for the world.

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EMPOWER Wellbeing approaches inform the delivery of the Loreto Toorak EMPOWER Program •

Emotional Literacy

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Metacognition

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Positive Education

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Opportunity and Engagement

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Wellbeing Science and Health

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Environmental Connection

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Respectful Relationships and Social and Emotional Learning

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EMPOWER Emotional Literacy Emotional Literacy is the ability

Incorporating emotional

to recognise, understand, and

intelligence practices into a

manage our own emotions, as

wellbeing program allows for

well as the emotions of others.

collective wellbeing approaches.

It involves skills such as selfawareness, self-regulation, empathy and social skills.

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EMPOWER Metacognition Metacognition is about the

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ways learners monitor and purposefully direct their learning.

Supporting students understand

attitudes •

effective and available strategies

how to approach any learning task or opportunity with some

their own abilities and

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knowledge of the task.

metacognitive knowledge about:

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EMPOWER Positive Education Positive Education focuses on

visualisation, gratitude journalling

developing positive emotions,

and character education,

relationships and practices.

promotes the wellbeing of our

Teaching life skills such as

students.

resilience, mindfulness, and positive thinking through actions that include affirmative

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EMPOWER Opportunity and Engagement Engaging in opportunities

and community. The co-

provided by Loreto Toorak

curricular opportunities fosters

benefits the wellbeing of

personal growth and social

our students, allowing them

skills contributing to a holistic

to discover their passions,

education.

develop skills, and build a sense of connection, support

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EMPOWER Wellbeing Science and Health Wellbeing Science and Health

enables peak performance in

is an interdisciplinary field

academic achievement, sporting

that draws upon research

performance, social interactions

from psychology, sociology,

and positive health outcomes.

neuroscience, and health sciences. Understanding how our brain and physical body functions

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EMPOWER Environmental Connection Environmental Connection refers

the importance of preserving

to the relationship between

the environment and how it

people and the environment,

can positively impact their

and how it can affect our

overall wellbeing. Environmental

mental and physical wellbeing.

wellbeing includes our

Incorporating opportunities that

relationship with First Nations

enable a connection to nature

people and the connection

can help students understand

between the land and wellbeing.

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EMPOWER Respectful Relationships and Social and Emotional Learning Respectful Relationships is an

skills that are vital for school,

approach to building healthy,

work, and life success.

positive relationships based

Incorporating activities such

on mutual respect, trust

as conflict resolution training,

and communication. Social

communication skills-building,

and emotional learning is an

and bystander education can

evidence-based approach

help develop the knowledge

developing the self-awareness,

needed to build and maintain

self-control, and interpersonal

healthy relationships.

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EMPOWER 2024 Family Wellbeing Series This series aims to empower

The 2024 series provides insights

parents with the knowledge and

and strategies to strengthen the

skills they need to guide and

parent-child/teen relationship,

mentor their children through

and aims to equip parents with

various stages of development

effective parenting strategies

from child to adolescence.

and tools for addressing contemporary challenges.

Term 1 Tuesday 13 February

7.00pm - 8.30pm

Cybersafety Parent and Child Workshop (Years 3 - 6)

Presented by Trent Ray

Tuesday 27 February

7.00pm - 8.30pm

Cybersafety Parent and Child Workshop (Year 7)

Presented by Trent Ray

Wednesday 17 7.00pm - 8.30pm April

Smart, Healthy and Happy Family Eating (Years 7 - 12)

Presented

by Dr Emily Meehan

Wednesday 15 7.00pm - 8.00pm May

Supporting Your Child’s Friendships - U R STRONG (Preparatory - Year 6)

Presented

by Tyson Greenwood

Term 2

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EMPOWER 2024 Family Wellbeing Series Term 3 Monday 15 July

7.00pm - 9.00pm

Supporting Your Child to be Confident and Capable (Years 4 - 10)

Presented

by Dr Judith Locke

7.00pm - 8.30pm

Navigating and Supporting Young People with Drug and Alcohol Harm Minimisation

Presented by Paul Dillon

Supporting Your Emerging Adult in Post-Secondary Years

Presented

by Donna Davies

Term 4 Monday 14 October

Wednesday 20 7.00pm - 8.00pm November

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THE CHALLENGES SHE NEEDS

10 Mandeville Crescent Toorak Victoria 3142 +61 3 8290 7500 www.loretotoorak.vic.edu.au

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