Positive Living

Positive Living Skills 

This term, Burke Ward have again introduced the Positive Living Skills program into all classrooms. 

The Positive Living Skills program is a universal and practical program designed specifically for children from preschool onwards, and the principles and positive effects of the learning experiences can reach teachers, school staff, parents, families and wider communities.

The goal is to prevent problems before they develop, by implementing a positive life skills program from an early age. The Positive Living Skills program assists to create habitual positive, healthy supportive behaviours by guiding children to learn to understand and self–direct their own thinking processes, emotions, actions, responses and outcomes, and build effective self-management and social skills. Each week there is a different teaching focus which is taught across all K-6 classrooms.

Week 5: Happy Highlights

Noticing and enjoying highlights is an effective way for us to bring our focus to the positive opportunities all around us, and highlights are available to almost every human being on any day. When students learn to bring their focus to highlights every day, they begin to build an optimistic and appreciative outlook for life, and learn to focus on building on their strengths and seeing the potential in themselves, in school and in life in general. 

Highlights are happy things you see and do and happy times you share with others. Highlights help you feel good!

Here are some ideas for how to apply highlights into your home life:

• Asking your children to share the highlights of their school day
• All family members share their highlight from their day during dinner each night.