Classroom News
This is what our students have been up to this week.
Mindfull Aus sessions
"Kids are not just the future, but also the present. They hold within themselves the potential to shape and create a better tomorrow, and it is our responsibility to nurture and empower them to achieve their full potential."
The aim of these student and parent sesions are:
- Identify- The 6 core emotions in the human face. Being able to recognise our emotions and the importance of each of them to our learning. The importance of validating each individual feeling and thought rather than suppressing and ignoring. Giving young champions the articulation for their emotion, but also an evidence based colour to make it easier to explore and express.
- Control - Techniques and Strategies to understand how to positively control our environments using Gratitude, Kindness, Breathwork, Exercise, Mindfulness and many more.
- Express - Being confident in talking about our thoughts, feelings and emotions with trusted adults, teachers, parents & friends. Understanding the importance our words and actions with every waking minute and the support that exists to us in our communities, removing stigma from speaking up and seeking appropriate help and services, but also finding other forms of expression. e.g reflection, journaling, dance, movement etc
- Learning the three main functions of the brain. Our superhero, our Librarian and our Judge. When students understand how the mind works, it helps to empower them to slow down, practicing mindfulness and stillness to navigate their way through their thoughts, feelings and emotion
The key outcomes from our session are
- Choices- Explore our choices. Using the terms “Bummer Bottom” and “Tip Top” we look at the two ways we can show up in any situation. Creating and growing trust, respect and freedom.
- Growth Mindset- Looking at how we bounce back and honour the process of failure. Knowing that failure is never the finish line and all of our mistakes lead to success.
- Behaviours - Removing the sometimes present behaviours to blame, justify, lie or quit, making room for behaviours that focus purely on the messages we want to send the world and those around us about who we truly are.