Assistant Principal - School & Student Operations

The Resilience Project

Emotional Literacy

This term in class, we explored emotional literacy by reflecting on different types of positive and negative emotions and how they may physically affect our bodies when we are experiencing those emotions.

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, or around the fire outside.
• Family members take turns naming an emotion. Take turns to act out a feeling or emotion. Use your face and body language to act this out, for example: Make an angry face and stamp your feet.
• You can make them up or chose one from the examples below: Acceptance, Happiness, Anger, Sadness, Excitement, Frustration, Resentment, Joy, Love, Hate, Optimism, Gratefulness, Empowerment, Embarrassment.
• Other family members need to guess the feeling/emotion.
• 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 overcome 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.

R U OK? Day - Thursday 12 September

R U OK? Day reminds us all that every day is the day to ask, ‘Are you OK?’ and support those struggling with life's ups and downs. Thank you to all our students who enthusiastically participated in our R U OK? lunchtime activity. It was fantastic to see our students checking in on one another and show how we care for one another.

Students were asked 'Why is it important to ask the question R U OK? Students wrote their response on a post it note and made a R U OK? pledge board. They all wore their R U OK? bracelet with pride

Here are our shared responses for our Yarrabing community:

Dina Becvinovski

Assistant Principal