Respectful Relationship News

This term, we will continue our teaching and learning of weekly Respectful Relationships lessons across all year levels at Mill Park Heights Primary School. For the first five weeks of this term, we will be focusing on Topic 3: Positive Coping.

Below is an outline of Topic 3, which covers strategies to support students in dealing with social and emotional situations.

Topic 3: Positive Coping

What do we do when life gets challenging? 

Some behaviours help us deal with challenges successfully. Other behaviours are not helpful. 

Talking about different ways of coping helps us to understand good strategies and unhelpful strategies. 

When we learn about different ways of coping, we get better at choosing successful coping strategies. 

We learn how to: 

  • use different types of coping strategies
  • reflect on our own choices
  • practise positive self talk – a key strategy to cope with negative thoughts, emotions and events.