Wellbeing

Inform and Empower Tip!

A really practical one today for both adults & our young people...turn off "autoplay" on YouTube.

It's a great conversation starter with your kids (of any age) about mindful tech consumption. Not letting yourself be manipulated (and that is exactly what autoplay aims to do!) by the tech. We need to teach our kids to be in charge of their own tech use.

With this feature enabled (which YouTube has turned on by default) we get that endless, continuous stream of videos. Often ending up somewhere far removed from the initial reason we arrived on YouTube! It also makes regulating our screen time that one step more difficult if we down get those forced breaks between videos.

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and be responsible and caring. At OLA, we have been working on developing these skills with explicit Circle Time lessons.

We acquired a new fun game called “Socially Speaking” for our Junior and Middle level students which focusses on social interaction in three key areas: home, school, and the wider community. Children are able to practice vital skills such as greetings, turn taking, eye contact, listening, compliments, emotions, telephoning others, showing interest in what others are saying, sitting appropriately and still, asking and answering questions, using your voice effectively, developing and maintaining friendships, and more. 

Garden Club

Josy Reeder

Learning Diversity/Wellbeing Leader