Student Wellbeing

Building resilience 

Resilience isn't about toughening kids up, it's about helping them bounce back. Children with greater levels of resilience are better able to manage stress. When children and young people learn to navigate stressors, it supports their mental health and wellbeing now and into the future. Simple everyday things make a real difference: warm relationships, predictable routines, letting kids problem-solve small challenges, and praising effort over outcome. Below is an article about the importance of building relisience and ways that can be achieved in schools. And another about the links between resilience and mental health.