Student Wellbeing and SRC Update
Managing Exam Stress: 5 Steps to Success
1. Not All Stress Is Bad
While it’s often given a bad rap, the right amount of stress can actually motivate you to get stuff done. The key thing is to recognise when stress has tipped over from being a motivating force to an overwhelming emotion.
2. 20-Minute Study Rule
No one can study for six hours straight and be effective. Break up your time into twenty-minute chunks for the most effective use of your brain.
3. Say It Out Loud
The best way to really remember and learn is to talk about what you’re learning out loud, without using any notes.
4. Breaks = Good, Constant Distraction = Bad
Taking planned and timed breaks will help you remain on task, but checking your social every 5 minutes is a sure -fire study fail. Research shows that it can take up to twenty minutes to refocus on your task once you’ve been distracted.
5. Sleep Is Your Friend
If you get a good night’s sleep before your exam, you are scientifically proven to retain more of what you studied the day before than if you stay up crazy late.
Although it’s a tough ask to eliminate exam stress completely, here are some free apps that can help make it all a little more manageable.
ReachOut Breathe
Recharge- Move Well, Sleep Well, Be Well
Smiling Mind (its YouTube channel is worth checking out too)
The above information has been sourced from ReachOut.com and is available at https://au.reachout.com/
Penny Hsiao, Adolescent Health Promotion Nurse
Week Without Violence
The third week of every October marks the international Week Without Violence. According to World Health Organisation, violence against women is a global public health concern that affects more than one third of all women globally. We want women and children to live safe and free from family violence, this week and every week.
To raise awareness, we ran the Clothesline Project on 17 Oct, displaying T-Shirts with messages painted by 8H students to support gender equality and eliminate violence. Violence is harmful and unacceptable, and it is often about control. Both men and women deserve to be treated equally and with respect – in relationships and everywhere else.
Penny Hsiao, Adolescent Health Nurse
Year 7 Celebrates a Healthy Headspace
Our long term partnership with Headspace, Glenroy was celebrated over a range of lunchtime activities, engaging students in conversations based around maintaining a healthy headspace and consolidating our work from term 2, which was focussed on the topic of resilience.
Our year 7 students currently find chatting with their peers, listening to music, keeping to a schedule, participating in physical activity, attending CHS based clubs, engaging in healthy eating, and having adequate sleep helps to maintain a healthy headspace.
SRC Update
The SRC has been working very hard this past term on improving student’s sun smart behaviours. The SRC presented at assemblies and to the staff to present the best way to be SunSmart at CHS. The SRC has also been rewarding great SunSmart behaviour with badges and we will continue to do this as the weather warms up and the UV increases.
We have also been working with the class captains and a charity called Folding Futures. This charity has helped us to organise recycling bins for the school. We are also going to visit Bupa Coburg to engage with our wider community.
We also helped out with R U OK? day and held a pizza stall to raise funds for future SRC projects. We also helped out with a day to spread awareness for violence against women. We made t-shirts and the turnout was great! Thank you to everyone for their participation and support.
Coming up we have the day of the dead celebrations which are going to be amazing! And we are also attending the young leadership conference on the 11 November.