Wellbeing

GEM CHAT

A GEM Chat consists of 2-5 minute activities/conversations that you can have individually or as a whole family, at different points throughout the day (whenever works best for you). Each newsletter will provide a different chat prompt. Please see below this week's chat: 

Working on gratitude helps us to be thankful and appreciate what we have in our lives, rather than focusing on what we don’t have or what we want. When we practise being grateful, we start to scan the world to look for positives – this only takes 21 days! Practising gratitude every day increases our levels of energy, and helps us to feel happier and more focused, determined and optimistic. It even helps us have better sleep, lowers levels of anxiety and depression and we are less likely to get sick. So many benefits – let’s all try to be grateful for the things and people in our lives every day!

Whole Family Activity:

Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

• As a family create a scavenger hunt list of things that make you happy or you are grateful for, you can make your own list or use the examples below:
• Something that makes you happy
• Something you love to smell
• Something you enjoy looking at
• Something that is your favourite colour
• Something you like in nature
• Something that is useful for you
• Each member of the family uses the list and has to find as many things as they can.
• You can hunt for things inside or outside, or both. You can hunt for real things, or you can also do this using magazines or pictures from the internet.
• After a set amount of time hunting, come back together, have a look at what each person collected and let them explain why they are grateful for each item.

Family Habit Builder:

Every night at dinner, have each person talk about their favourite thing about that day.

The Imperfects Podcast 

Perfectly Imperfect

Jackson Tozer embodies the essence of The Imperfects podcast. Well, that’s what Ryan thinks, and we’re pretty keen to agree.

Hugely successful and outrageously talented, Jackson, from the outside, is living the dream. Behind the professional success of acting alongside Shaun Micallef, John Cena and Zac Efron (and Ryan, can’t forget Ryan), Jackson found himself learning how to be a high-functioning addict (literally high) at rock bottom.

Sharing his experience with grief, the loss of his best friend and marijuana addiction, which contributed to his battle with bulimia, anxiety and depression, we thank Jackson for being so bloody generous with his vulnerability.This episode with Jackson Tozer includes a discussion about eating disorders, marijuana addiction and suicide . If this feels like too much for you right now, please come back to this episode when you’re ready.

To watch this full episode on YouTube, follow this link – https://bit.ly/3YrXrf9

PBIS 

Our blitz for Weeks 1 & 2 was be ‘Being Sunsmart’. It’s that time of the year again where the sun will be shining and those UV rays will be out in force.

We need to protect ourselves in as many ways as possible so we don’t get burnt.

Here are the ways that you should protect yourself:

SLIP - on a shirt with sleeves over your shoulders.  

SLOP - on sunscreen

SLAP - on a hat

SEEK - shade

SLIDE - on sunglasses (You can do this when you are at home)

Remember that each classroom has sunscreen, you can put sunscreen on before lunchtime on your face, arms and legs.

Please also wear your hat the correct way as shown by Edith on our PBIS posters.

ATTENDANCE 

WELLBEING

Building resilience in children: Resilience is something that can be fostered and developed over time. A combination of individual, family, community and societal factors influence children and young people’s developing resilience.