Mental Health And Wellbeing

THE RESILIENCE PROJECT

GEM - Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

In our last newsletter we had a focus on Empathy and asked you do to the Neighbourhood Kindness Challenge. Did you, do it? How did you go?

This week we are focussing on Mindfulness.

Working on mindfulness gives us opportunities to develop our ability to pay attention to the present moment and our thoughts. Practising mindfulness daily can help us stay focused on set tasks and reduce stress and anxiety.

Whole Family Activity: Mindful Walk

• As a family, go on a walk outside in nature. This might be around your local walking track, at your local park or just around your streets.
• While walking, tune into your senses and observe what you can see, hear and feel. Or you might choose to focus on one of the senses. E.g.: Hear: what are all the noises you can hear on your walk?
• On your way home or when you return home, share what each person saw, heard or felt.

Family Habit Builder:

Each night at dinner, ask everyone to take one mouthful of food more mindfully than the rest and think about the flavours they can taste and how it makes them feel. (They can also thank the chef!).

TRP Survey

The students in Year 3 – 6 completed the Resilience Project Survey during term one. The Resilience Survey is an online survey which collects, analyses and reports the resilience of young people at a cohort level in terms of their strengths, life satisfaction, hopefulness, anxiety and depression, coping style, and risk and protective behaviours.

Specifically, the survey measures the resilience and wellbeing of your young people across 9 key domains: Understanding Self, Social Skills, Positive Relationships, Safety, Healthy Body and Healthy Mind, Learning, Positive Attitude, Positive Values, Positive Identity. Teachers in the Wellbeing Professional Learning Team have looked closely at the data and classroom teachers are working through the, The Resilience Project, with their classes to improve student resilience. Students will resit the survey later in the year.

Thanks Finlay and Zoe in 2R for the super cute picture with their TRP workbooks.

Fiona Sewell

Assistant Principal