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Junior School update

Feeling Words Curriculum

“Labelling emotions accurately increases self-awareness and helps us to communicate emotions effectively, reducing misunderstanding in social interactions.”

Marc Brackett, Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

 

What is the Feeling Words Curriculum?

The Feeling Words Curriculum helps students build a broader vocabulary of emotion words. This richer vocabulary makes it easier to understand and support your child's needs.

 

How to use Feeling Words Curriculum at home:

 

  • Tell a personal story or read a story together. 

     

    Then ask your child…

    • How did the character feel?
    • How do you know they felt this way? What were the clues?
    • When was a time you felt the same way?

    • What did you do when you felt that way?

       

  • Ask your child to imagine what they would do or say if they had a friend that was feeling ____ (scared, sad, mad, etc.)

     

  • Draw pictures of what different emotions look like or make songs of what different emotions sound like.

 

Ms Vanessa Juergens

Teacher of Year 2D

Social & Emotional Learning Coordinator

Senior School Update

Welcome back to Term 3 of Flourish lessons, Senior School's Social and Emotional Learning space. For the first two weeks of Term, students have been exploring the following lessons

 

  • Year 7 - Sleep Essentials: learning about the power of sleep and how to ensure you get enough
  • Year 8 - Rewiring Your Brain: learning to manage phone use for improved sleep patterns.
  • Year 9 - Healthy Eating, Healthy Living: examining how diet impacts physical and mental health.
  • Year 10 - Media, Stereotypes and Careers: How media and online presence affect our perceptions.
  • Year 11 - The Food Globe: strengthening cultural awareness through nutrition.
  • Year 12 - Pathways After School: exploring what’s possible after school.

 

These lessons have been mapped to support the deficiency of skills that were recorded in a recent student wellbeing survey.

 

Please continue the learning at home by talking with your child about their Flourish lessons and how they can apply these skills in their everyday lives.

 

Ms Joanne Christie

Head of House - Riley

Social & Emotional Learning Coordinator