Wellbeing News

Hello everyone and welcome to Week 8,

When learning about wellbeing, the students at St Brendan’s are focusing on Topic 5 from the Respectful Relationships program. The topic is broken down below:

TOPIC 5: STRESS MANAGEMENT

Children and young people experience a range of personal, social and work-related stressors in their everyday lives. Activities within this topic have an explicit focus on teaching positive approaches to stress management. Assisting students to recognise their personal signs and symptoms of stress, and develop strategies that will help them to deal with stress effectively, will help students cope with future challenges. The activities focus on the ways in which self-calming strategies can be used to manage stressful situations.

This week, I have attached some lessons from each of the year levels with some examples of what is covered. There are some great child-friendly strategies to cope with stress and anger.

I hope that this gives you an insight into some of the benefits of teaching this program to the students at St Brendan’s and the practical strategies it offers for stress management techniques.

Thank you.

Tess Haddock

Student Wellbeing Leader

thaddock@sbsomerville.catholic.edu.au

Foundation - Stress Management - Lesson 3 - Positive Play