Wellbeing and Inclusion Update

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (4Rs)

Next week (Week 5), we will begin with our third topic – Positive Coping.  Activities within this topic area will assist students (at different levels within the school) to: 

• reflect on their emotional responses
•  describe ways to express emotions that show awareness of the feelings and needs of others 
• practice techniques to deal with feelings of fear, frustration and anger
• learn and practice self-calming techniques 
• understand the value of a meaningful apology
• identify the influence of self-talk on their actions and emotions

Why Teach Positive Coping Strategies?

•  Coping strategies are the things people do to help them to self-calm, self-cheer, persevere and endure, release tension, deal with distress or uncertainty or lift their mood 

•  Coping strategies can be learnt through observation 

•  Children tend to imitate the coping strategies that they see modelled in their families and amongst their peers 

•  Boys and girls tend to absorb gendered coping styles 

•  Students can learn to extend their repertoire of coping strategies and benefit from critically reflecting on their own choices 

•  When young people develop language around coping, they are more likely to be able to understand and deliberately utilise a range of different strategies for use in addressing different types of challenges.

The topic of Positive Coping will be covered for the next four weeks.