The Resilience Project

Sharing Our Resilience Project Highlights

Over the past two years, our students have been engaging in the Resilience Project, exploring important themes like gratitude, empathy, mindfulness, and emotional literacy.

This week, students in Year 5BR will  share their favourite lessons and personal highlights from the program. It’s been wonderful to see how these sessions have helped build emotional awareness and positive habits in our classrooms.

Ariel:  In The Resilience Project, we have been learning about key elements of resilience called Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness. Gratitude has come from the word ‘grateful’. The word gratitude means to be thankful or grateful for what you have. It also means not only to be grateful for what you have but to be grateful for the thoughts you have.

Next, we learned about Empathy .  Empathy is about feeling what others are feeling. It may sound weird but it's true! You may feel sad if you got a low mark in your test and others may have already been at that stage  before. Or if someone else was happy because you helped you would feel happy as well. 

After that comes Mindfulness, mindfulness is how we stop and think in a mindful and peaceful way. It is like breathing slower than normal and feeling content. Like, a way that will calm you down and make you feel free and peaceful.

Ella:  In The Resilience Project we have been learning about mindfulness. We have been looking at breathing techniques that can help us when we feel overwhelmed, stressed or nervous. Shape breathing is a type of breathing exercise that we have been looking at, where you have to trace shapes with your finger. In our books, we had to draw different shapes and write instructions for each shape. It was a really fun activity and it was great to learn about new breathing techniques that can help when feeling overwhelmed.