Pastoral Program and Events

Welcome Back to The Resilience Project in 2024 Parents and Carers!

This year, we are excited to continue our relationship with The Resilience Project (TRP) within our school community as a key component of our Pastoral Program! Last year, we all learned about the importance of gratitude, empathy, mindfulness, and emotional literacy in our day to day lives, and we will be delving further into this space in 2024.

About the Program

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. Teachers and students will engage in fortnightly lessons and activities around the key principles of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness (GEM) and Emotional Literacy to build resilience, within our allocated Pastoral Period every second Monday. We will continue to build upon the knowledge learned in 2023, and to integrate The Resilience Project mindset further into our school community. 

What Can Be Done at Home?

To continue to learn more about The Resilience Project and get involved from home, you can explore the ideas, activities and resources which bring Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness (GEM) to life on TRP@HOME. The link is attached below for your reference.

https://theresilienceproject.com.au/at-home/home-2023/ 

Snapshot on 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, and helps us to feel happier and more focused, determined and optimistic. It even helps us have 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
• Each member of the family uses the list and has to find as many items as they can.
• You can hunt for them inside or outside, or both. You can hunt for real things, or you can also do this using magazines or pictures from the internet.
• 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.