Deputy Principal/Student Wellbeing
Wellbeing Day
On Monday 20 June, the students will celebrate being a 'Sacred Heart Kew Kid'. A fun day has been planned including multi-age class wellbeing activities, a special lunch and a colour run scheduled for the afternoon session. Please bring a gold coin donation to support The Royal Children's Hospital.
An order form for the Pizza lunch was sent home with your child/ren last week. Please fill in the form and return it to your classroom teacher along with the money by Tuesday 14 June.
Wellbeing activities and conversation starters for parents (Understanding emotions)
There are a range of activities that will help build and maintain your child's wellbeing. Most of them are short and require very few materials. The activities cover six key elements that are important to wellbeing. There are also activities that focus on positive thinking and gratitude as well as breathing exercises that promote calm. These activities are based on the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships teaching and learning materials.
Six key elements that are important to wellbeing
Understanding emotions activities Prep-6 | ||
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| Prep | Goal: Understanding our emotions. | Activity: With your child, name the different emotions that characters in your favourite TV show or story book are feeling. How many can you name? Ask: How can we work out what emotions other people are feeling? |
| Year 1/ 2 | Goal: Understand our emotions. | Activity: Play emotional charades with members of your family. Each person acts out an emotion and family members guess the emotion/feeling. |
Goal: Understand situations that can trigger different emotions. | Activity: Your child asks a family member how they would feel if: -They were starting a new school or job -Their friend had told everyone a secret they share with them -They had won a prize | |
| Year 3/4 | Goal: Develop language to identify and describe emotions. | Activity: Name and describe the emotions of a character in your favourite TV show. Take turns in doing this with your child. |
Goal: Name positive and negative emotions. | Activity: Name three positive and three negative emotions you experienced today. Ask your child to do the same. Ask: How did it look, sound and feel? | |
| Year 5/6 | Goal: Understand your emotions. | Activity: Go around the dinner table and have each person share three emotions that they felt that day and why. |
Goal: Understand others' emotions. | Activity: Encourage your child to tell a person in your family about their day. The listener tries to guess what emotions your child would have felt during their day. | |
5 Secrets to Build Confidence and Resilience
Thank you to the parents who were able to attend Tuesday night's parent seminar on the '5 Secrets to Build Confidence and Resilience' with Georgina Manning. The session focused on helpful strategies that parents can use to develop confidence and resilience in their child/ren in the following areas:
- Problem Solving Skills
- Independence
- Healthy Thinking Skills
- Nourish Brain and Body
- Coping Skills
Below are the links to the presentation.