Fit Futures
Hornsby South has been working with Fit Futures for a number of years to deliver a quality sport program to the school. Fit Future instructors are experienced NSW accredited teachers and sports professionals who are passionate about getting students moving in an engaging and fun way.
All students participate in weekly Fit Futures lessons. The programs are stage-specific and follow a clear progression with students learning new skills each week. They provide individual reports of student progression and achievement each semester.
BounceBack
BounceBack is a whole school social and emotional program that promotes mental health, wellbeing and resilience for students.
Throughout the year, K-6 students will focus on the following topics:
Core values and Social Values: These units focus on developing pro-social values including values related to ethical and intercultural understanding.
People Bouncing Back: This unit focuses on developing self-management strategies for coping and bouncing back.
Courage: This unit focuses on strategies to find and act with courage in both everyday life and difficult circumstances.
Looking on the Bright Side: This unit focuses on teaching optimistic thinking, positive tracking, being appreciative and expressing gratitude.
Emotions: This unit focuses on strategies for developing & boosting positive emotions and managing negative emotions.
Relationships: This unit focuses on explicitly teaching social skills for building relationships and maintaining friendships.
Humour: This unit focuses on the use of humour as a coping skill.
Being Safe: This unit focuses on strategies and skills for creating a safe class and school environment and discouraging and managing bullying incidents.
Success: This unit focuses on skills and attitudes for identifying & applying character and ability strengths, setting goals, planning, persevering (grit & the development of a growth mindset), overcoming mistakes and obstacles and being successful in achieving personal and learning goals.
