Relational Aggression

This week I've spent some time with our Year 4 cohort teaching about relational aggression. For those of you who attended the session the school counsellor and I ran last year you would be aware of what relational aggression can look like among children. 

Children are still developing and learning how to maintain healthy and positive relationships. They don't have fully developed brains and this impacts on their social reasoning and capacity. It's so easy to ascribe to children the same understanding and motivations that we ascribe to adults. It's important to remember that they are learning.

Every year I like to teach a few lessons about relational aggression to the older year levels. Relational aggression is just one form of bullying that can occur in any workplace, team, school or community organisation. It can be secretive, misunderstood and confusing because it happens between friends. It occurs whenever any human beings work and play a lot together.

To teach about it very early we help ensure children:

• Recognise when it is happening
• Report it to people who can help stop it
• Refuse to participate or accept it

Not only do we want to enable someone to not become a part of it, we also want to empower the people who see it to step in and help. These people are often called bystanders.

Teaching about relational aggression gives our older students the capacity to have more positive and healthy relationships in high school. 

School Fees 2025

Catholic Education have determined the school fees for 2025 and these will be sent out early next week to assist families with future planning.

I wish everyone a very joyful and productive weekend.