Health and Wellbeing
We focus on nurturing the whole student, offering a range of programs that support academic growth while encouraging the development of each student’s unique talents and interests.
Melville Senior High School is a friendly and safe school that embraces a supportive and caring pastoral care, health and wellbeing system, recognising students’ needs, welfare and progress as a priority.
We support the whole student through opportunities for extension, tailored academic interventions and enrichment across artistic, creative, academic, sporting, and personal development.
Our inclusive range of programs ensure all students have the opportunity to develop skills for success, allowing them to thrive in their chosen pathway and the journey beyond high school.
- Establishing positive relationships between staff and students is paramount to learning.
- Innovative, flexible, and exciting enrichment programs are available to ensure student needs are met.
- It is important to provide all relevant information to support your child’s development at high school.
Staff monitor student health and wellbeing and implement a range of preventative and responsive programs to address recognised health and wellbeing issues in our community including, for example, teen mental health, cyber safety, sexual health, protective behaviours and life-skills.
Student Services provide a variety of successful wellbeing programs, including:
- Art Therapy – individual and group programs utilising a range of art materials and contexts in a creative process to explore mental health, the impact of emotions, anxiety, depression and self-esteem;
- Growth, Resilience, Integrity, and Traction (GRIT) – experiential learning processes where students engage in challenging activities and tasks followed by a debrief or review. Through this program, young individuals develop resilience, integrity, and tenacity, equipping them with essential life skills;
- Teen Mental Health First Aid – interactive series of workshops providing young people with the vocabulary and help seeking skills to support fellow young people experiencing mental health challenges. Facilitated by our highly skilled and qualified School Psychologist. Twenty staff members across the school undertook training in Youth Mental Health First Aid in order to meet the requirements needed to offer ‘Teen Mental Health First Aid’ to all Year 10 students in 202
- Positive Psychology – School Psychologists work with GAT classes to highlight the benefits of positive psychology
- Tomorrow Man and Tomorrow Woman – interactive workshops where students are encouraged to challenge gender stereotypes;
- Legal Aid WA – understanding our legal rights and responsibilities
- Act Belong Commit Health Week – fun, interactive and informative activities led by Senior School Health Studies classes
- Navigating Leavers Week – presented by the Red Frogs Organisation
- RAC bstreetsmart and Backstreet Driver Program – interactive and informative road safety workshops
- Grass Roots Music Foundation – engaging our students using music production and instrumental lessons as the vehicle.
