Wellbeing and Safety

The Resilience Project is committed to teaching positive mental health strategies to prevent mental ill-health and build young people’s capacity to deal with adversity. As a school, we work in partnership with the Resilience Project and have a whole school focus on Empathy, Gratitude and Mindfulness. This week our staff attended a webinar session on the 'Authentic Connection' with Martin Heppell and we look forward to Martin visiting our school later in the year. Students continue to engage with their Resilience Project Journals as part of their Social and Emotional learning programs. 

Empathy

Working on empathy helps us to identify, understand and feel what another person is feeling. When we show empathy or we do something kind for someone else our brain releases oxytocin. This leads to increasing our self-esteem/confidence, energy levels, positivity and overall happiness.

Whole Family Activity: Neighbourhood Kindness Challenge

As a family, choose an act of kindness from the list below that you would like to do for a neighbour or family friend. Each family member can select one to commit to, or you can choose to do one together. 

• Cook them something delicious like a cake, hotbread, or cookies.
• Write a note to put in their letter box thanking them for being a great neighbour or friend.
• Design them a Thank You card.
• Pick or buy some flowers to deliver to them.
• Choose a little plant from your garden to give them.
• Make them a gift from things around your house.
• Offer to do a job for them, like wash their car or water their garden.
• Offer to take their pets for a walk.
• Invite them over for afternoon tea.
• Invite them on a walk.
• Recommend one of your favourite books to borrow and read.
• Ask them if they need anything from the shops next time you buy groceries.
• Say hello next time you see them, and ask them how their day is going.
• Feel free to do more than one and spread the kindness even further!
• Report back to each other in one week and share how your acts of kindness were received, and how doing them made you feel.

Family Habit Builder:

Every night at dinner, have each person thank another family member for something

they’ve done or said today, or give another family member a compliment.

Meta-cognition & Learning Strengths

Meta-cognition improves wellbeing & mental health and supports students to have a positive mindset in their capacity to learn & succeed. Henry Ford summarised this succinctly with the quote, ‘Whether you think you can or you think can’t, you’re right.’’ Attached is an insightful article by Andrew Fuller on Learning Strengths, you may want to explore this further with your child and visit www.mylearningstrengths.com

Judo:

Esme participating in the state judo championships on Sunday. She did really well, and came 5th!