Student Wellbeing

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships - Stress Management

As part of our teaching of Respectful Relationships, students will be learning about ‘Stress Management’. Children and young people experience a range of personal, social and work-related stressors in their everyday lives. Activities within this topic have an explicit focus on teaching positive approaches to stress management. Assisting students to recognise their personal signs and symptoms of stress, and to develop strategies that will help them to deal with stress effectively, will help students cope with future challenges. Activities in this unit will focus on the ways in which self-calming strategies can be used to manage stressful situations.

Explicit instruction about stress, its impact and stress management techniques helps foster a classroom culture in which individual students are capable of taking greater responsibility for their behaviour. This is indeed also true for all of our students when they are at home! After all ‘stressing’ is an internal response to a perceived stressor. One person’s stress may be another’s exciting challenge.

At home talk to your child about what you find stressful. Explain what happens to your body when you encounter a ‘perceived’ stressor. Talk to them about how you cope and better still show them how you cope! Afterall, our young chargers learn more from what we do. Always make sure to act on and not reacte to stressors. Most importantly never overreacte!

Thanks for listening - Happy Father’s Day, Dads!

Regards,

Guy