Living Well, Learning Well

This Week's Focus for The Resilience Project is:

Emotional Literacy

Working on our emotional literacy gives us opportunities to develop our ability to understand and express different emotions. When we improve our emotional literacy, we can work towards recognising our own feelings and our ability to manage them. This allows us to cope with different life situations, such as managing conflict, making friends, coping in difficult situations and being resilient when dealing with change. 

Whole Family Activity: 

Feelings Charades 

Gather together as a family, this might be around the dinner table, lounge room, around the fire outside. Take turns to act out a feeling or emotion. Use your face and body language to act this out.

 For example: 

 1. Make an angry face and stamp your feet.

 2. Other family members need to guess the feeling /emotion.

 3. After someone has guessed the feeling/emotion, have family members discuss a time they have felt this way before and why. If it was a negative emotion, how did they over come it?

Family Habit Builder:

Around the dinner table, ask everyone to share a feeling they felt during that day. Discuss how they dealt with that feeling and then discuss and share strategies you could use when faced with particular feelings.

 

Exciting Upcoming Event!

TRP Team Visiting HTS Students:

The Resilience Project Team will be visiting HTS next week on Wednesday and Thursday. They will be holding sessions with K-2, 3-6 and Years 7-10 students.

 

As part of their ongoing commitment to wellbeing in schools, they have launched their first ever edition of PROJECT+ for 2023

Check out the Parent & Carer edition of Project+ attached belowwhere they talk about what Emotional Literacy is and how important being emotionally literate is for adults as well as children.