Mental Health &

Wellbeing @ St. Johns

WELCOME TO THE RESILIENCE PROJECT

PARENTS & CARERS

This year, we are excited to bring The Resilience Project (TRP) into our school community!

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. 

We will be implementing their evidence-based Teaching and Learning Program throughout our classrooms, staffroom and school community. Teachers and students will engage in weekly lessons and activities around the key principles of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness (GEM) and Emotional Literacy to build resilience.

The Secret to Raising Resilient Kids: Embrace (and Model) Failure

Kids are prone to making poor choices – dropping things, drawing on the wrong things with permanent marker, being selfish and struggling to share, having meltdowns, falling over, and having bumps and bruises while playing freely.

When children are protected from failing or being disappointed – regardless if this comes from a place of love – it will come at a cost later in life when a moment of challenge or setback arrives (and it will).

Joe Brumm, the creator and animator of the award winning Australian children’s television show Bluey created an episode about the game of Pass the Parcel and the old vs new rules. 

The old rules of  Pass the Parcel means that there is only one winner. And learning what it feels like to lose or not get what you want is a part of becoming emotionally competent. To become emotionally buoyant we need to experience emotionally challenging moments, especially when we are younger before the limbic brain grows to be more influential.

Maggie shares why modelling failure and helping our kids embrace failure, especially in the early years will set positive foundations for how to cope with failure and build resilience not only in adolescence but in adulthood too. Maggie shares examples of games you can play to help practice failing with grace and grit.

Credit https://www.maggiedent.com/blog/the-secret-to-raising-resilient-kids-embrace-failure/

Resilient Youth Survey Project 2024

Dear Parents/Guardians/Carers,

Resilience and wellbeing are key factors to ensure a happy and fulfilling future for our young people. 

This year we have chosen to partner with Resilient Youth Australia who have surveyed more than 350,000 Australian school students aged 8-18 over recent years. 

We will administer the 2024 Survey this year in class time Years 3 - 6 (13/14 Feb). Students typically take 20-25 minutes to complete the survey. 

The data from the survey will be reported in aggregate descriptive form only, by year level and gender, and no individual student responses can be identified.

The 2024 Survey is completely voluntary and anonymous. The survey collects the self-reported resilience and wellbeing of students and will provide valuable information to assist us create and maintain the best culture of wellbeing and resilience that we can.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your child’s participation in this survey project, please contact me via my email, dhall@sjeuroa.catholic.edu.au.

We thank you for your support. 

Denise Hall

Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader

In this video, Justin Coulson talks about what it's like for a child with ADHD. Justin and his wife Kylie have six children, one of whom has ADHD.