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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