Student Wellbeing
Emotional Literacy
St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School
Working on our emotional literacy gives us opportunities to develop our ability to understand and express different emotions. When we improve our emotional literacy, we can work towards recognising our own feelings and our ability to manage them. This allows us to cope with different life situations, such as managing conflict, making friends, coping in difficult situations, and being resilient when dealing with change.
Whole Family Activity:
Feelings Charades
- Gather together as a family, this might be around the dinner table, lounge room, or around the fire outside.
- Take turns to act out a feeling or emotion. Use your face and body language to act this out, For example: Make an angry face and stamp your feet or
- Other family members need to guess the feeling/emotion.
- After someone has guessed the feeling/emotion, have family members discuss a time they have felt this way before and why. If it was a negative emotion, how did they overcome it?
Family Habit Builder:
Around the dinner table, ask everyone to share a feeling they felt during that day. Discuss how they dealt with that feeling and then discuss and share strategies you could use when faced with particular feelings.
Positive Behaviour for Learning
SJV has also begun working with the Positive Behaviour for Learning team. As part of the process we are finding out what values our teachers, students and families think are most important to them. The three top values will help us to form a School Behaviour Matrix. Please fill in the Survey by clicking the link to tell us what you are thinking in terms of values. It is important that we work together.
LINK: https://forms.gle/kqhq6UTQ6diqXoDe6
Kind Regards
Jenny Willmott
jwillmott@sjvmulgrave.catholic.edu.au
Deputy Principal/ Student Wellbeing Leader