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Welcome to the St Peter's School Values Education Forum. We hope that you find this space helpful and enjoy offering others your thoughts and ideas as we explore this topic together. This forum will run from Friday 23rd May to Wednesday 28th May, 2008.

The purpose of this online forum is to provide members of the St Peters school community the opportunity to explore Values Education and make the connections to our Vision statement and the whole school resiliency program - BOUNCEBACK!.

We would like parents and members of the wider community to respond to any of the questions on the Parents page. We would like the students to respond to any of the questions on the Students page. We would like teachers to provide any feedback on the teachers page. Everyone is welcome to visit the comments-feedback, ideas and questions pages. Please do not click on space.menu - it is an empty page. You dont need to include your name however you may if you wish.

The instructions for adding your comments on are on each page. The home page provides you with some important information about the St. Peter's Vision statement, Values for Australian Schooling and the goals of the BOUNCEBACK! program. Please read this before starting to help you answer the questions.

**__St Peter's Vision Statement__**

At St. Peter's Catholic Parish Primary School, Epping Jesus is our model and the Gospel values of love, empathy and forgiveness are fostered and lived. Our school works in partnership with families to ensure growth in faith and identity as a member of the Catholic community and to ensure that children are able to fully participate in society.

A welcoming atmosphere of acceptance, respect and celebration of the individual happens alongside physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social development.

St Peter's School is a learning community who strives to provide a happy, safe and supportive learning environment for all where we are empowered to be thinkers, encouraged to take risks and to reflect on our learning in the current and future world.

**__  Nine Values for Australian Schooling   __**   1. Care and Compassion   Care for self and others 2. Doing Your Best Seek to accomplish something worthy and admirable, try hard, pursue excellence 3. Fair Go Pursue and protect the common good where all people are treated fairly for a just society 4. Freedom Enjoy all the rights and privileges of Australian citizenship free from unnecessary interference or control, and stand up for the rights of others 5. Honesty and Trustworthiness Be honest, sincere and seek the truth 6. Integrity Act in accordance with principles of moral and ethical conduct, ensure consistency between words and deeds 7. Respect Treat others with consideration and regard, respect another person’s point of view 8. Responsibility Be accountable for one’s own actions, resolve differences in constructive, non-violent and peaceful ways, contribute to society and to civic life, take care of the environment 9. Understanding, Tolerance and Inclusion Be aware of others and their cultures, accept diversity within a democratic society, being included and including others **__BOUNCEBACK!__** At St Peter's we have a whole school resiliency program called BOUNCEBACK! It is taught in all grades for 30 minutes per week. The aim of the program is to teach students to be more resilient, to become more connected to their peers and to improve their emotional wellbeing and self-esteem. One aspect of the program focuses on CORE VALUES. The classroom units of work on core values provide concrete and practical activities to help students understand the importance of the core prosocial values and how these values determine how they behave and relate to others. The values covered in BOUNCEBACK include -
 * Integrity: being honest, fair, responsible and loyal and socially 'just'
 * Support: supporting and caring for other people
 * Cooperation: cooperating with others
 * Acceptance of difference: accepting, repecting, living with and finding the positive side of differences in others
 * Respect: respecting the rights of others, and acknowledging your own rights and responsibilities to others in a respectful way
 * Friendliness: being friendly and socially responsible, and including others in games and conversations.