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Social and Emotional Learning
This time last year we began our Mindful Aus journey by introducing the Healthier Hearts, Lighter Minds program.
One year on, we would love to strengthen our home school partnership with a united front through the use of specific language from this program.
Six core emotions:
Emotional Check ins:
When the students come into the classroom, they are asked to identify how they are feeling. This helps the teacher identify how students are feeling and provides an opportunity to have further conversations with individual students to support their learning and social interactions.
Parents are encouraged to print off an emotional check in poster to be used at home. Don't know about you, but when I ask my children "How was school today?' The standard response is always "fine". The use of this check in system at home will encourage students to share one moment of their school day centered around one of these core emotions.
When things don't go to plan:
As students learn and grow as people, friends and members of a community they will encounter many challenges.
To support growth in social interactions and personal develop this program used the acronym I.C.E.
Identify:
What key emotion are you feeling?
Control:
How did you control your emotion?
Express:
What can you express to make things right?
These three key questions are a consistent language use across the school during classroom time with core teachers and specialist teachers, during lunch and recess yard duty and with the leadership and principal class team.
To further support the personal and social develop of students it is encouraged to use these three key questions when reflecting on challenging interactions when reflecting on school interactions and also interactions at home and on the weekends.
Get your child to identify the core emotion they are feeling (now and at the time).
Ask your child to identify core emotion others (students and teacher) may be feeling.
Parents to confirm or explain how the behaviour may have affected others.
Ask your child how they could have controlled their behaviour in the situation.
Ask your child to express what they need to do to make things right.
If the situation happened again what could they do differently.
If you have any questions about our Healthier Hearts, Lighter Minds Social and Emotional programs or any of the above strategies please see your classroom teacher or any member of the principal team.