Wellbeing and Safety

Lunch Time Clubs begin again next week – thanks to our grade 6 students who again will be offering an engaging program – if your child is finding the playground a challenge or are unsure what to play, we recommend wording them up on the options below and encouraging them to make their way to the ‘Knuckle’ (they can ask their teacher if they are unsure where that is):

Read on for some reflections and insights from the students who led last term’s lunch time clubs:

I learnt to be patient and helpful to younger students

We learnt that kids love to have freedom when they do art

We learnt that you need to advertise your club in lots of different ways to get people interested

I learnt that it is hard being in charge and getting people to listen

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. 

Gratitude

Working on gratitude helps us to be thankful and appreciate what we have in our lives, rather than focusing on what we don’t have or what we want. When we practise being grateful, we start to scan the world to look for positives–this only takes 21 days! Practising gratitude every day increases our levels of energy, helps us to feel happier and more focused, determined and optimistic. It even helps us have a better sleep, lowers levels of anxiety and depression and we are less likely to get sick. So many benefits–let’s all try to be grateful for the things and people in our lives every day!

Whole Family Activity: Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

As a family create a scavenger hunt list of things that make you happy or you are grateful for, you can make your own list or use the examples below:

• Something that makes you happy
• Something you love to smell
• Something you enjoy looking at
• Something that is your favourite colour
• Something you like in nature
• Something that is useful for you

1. Each member of the family uses the list and has to find as many things as they can.
2. You can hunt for things inside or outside, or both. You can hunt for real things, or you can also do this using magazines or pictures from the internet.
3. After a set amount of time hunting, come back together, have a look at what each person collected and let them explain why they are grateful for each item.

Family Habit Builder: Every night at dinner, have each person talk about their favourite thing about that day.

Check out their website for more information: The Resilience Project