Welfare / Inclusion News

Wellbeing at PHPS

What is Mental Health?

Mental health is the emotional, social and behavioural wellbeing of any infant, child, young person or adult. Good mental health is important for healthy development, and research tells us that recognising and addressing problems early can help improve outcomes.

Having good mental health involves:

• being able to play, learn and be social with others
• having healthy relationships and close bonds with family and friends
• managing feelings and responses in a range of situations
• being able to cope with challenges
• having a positive outlook
• developing and having good self-esteem.

Identifying emotions and self-regulating are excellent ways to be in tune with your mental health. At PHPS we implement the following into our daily practise to build students capability to recognise their emotional needs, triggers, and strategies to assist them in self-regulation and coping:

• Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships
• Circle Time
• Greet at the door protocol (individual daily check ins)
• Calm corners and break out spaces
• De-escalation

How are you feeling today?

WELLBEING GROUPS

This year we are running small wellbeing groups where students learn practical coping skills and content in a fun way with other likeminded students. These small groups of up to 6 students run for 6 sessions. 

We have just recently completed our first round of our Emotional Regulation Groups. Throughout the sessions, our students have been working on their own 'coping toolbox' and ways they can fill these with coping strategies that work for them. 

During our final session, we celebrated by decorating our own 'cope-cakes' for a well-deserved sweet treat to finish off our group.

Well done to our grade 1/2 and grade 3/4 groups, what a great start to our wellbeing groups this year!

Looking forward to starting our Social Skills Wellbeing Group very soon.