Wellbeing

Emotional Literacy - Making Connections

Introduction 

Building and maintaining connections with family, friends and community groups helps us to feel like we belong. It also has many positive impacts on our mental health, some benefits include:

• sense of belonging
• feeling supported
• enhances happiness
• gives us a purpose
• builds teamwork and cooperation
• increases self esteem
• helps develop greater empathy
• can help decrease the chances of anxiety and depression

The Task 

Think about some groups you belong to. Explore why they are important to you and how you can build that connection.

Some groups could be family, school, sports, friendship, hobby or class groups. It is common for people to have similar interests in groups and become part of our lives.

PBIS - Positive Behaviour Supports & Interventions 

Fortnightly Blitz 

As part of PBIS at St Patrick’s Primary School we focus on a Blitz every fortnight. The fortnightly Blitz is introduced by our PBIS student leaders at our school assemblies. 

Our current Blitz is ‘Stay on paths’. Teachers and PBIS student leaders keep an eye out for students that are demonstrating this behaviour and they can get a token to go in their class letterbox.