Wellbeing
Be You
BeYou is an educational resource that promotes the mental health of students, parents and teachers. At SFS, we are a BeYou school and mental health has never been more important. This week’s fact sheet from the BeYou website is all about guidelines for how much exercise children should be getting. This is especially important in the current situation, given the amount of time sitting in front of a screen and restrictions around going out to the park.
How much exercise do children and young people need?
The Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines outline the following recommendations for children and young people:
- Infants (birth to one year): 30 minutes of supervised interactive floor-based play including tummy time, reaching and grasping, pushing and pulling and crawling.
- Toddlers (1-2 years): at least 180 minutes a day, including energetic play such as running and jumping.
- Pre-schoolers (3-5 years): at least 180 minutes a day of which 60 minutes is energetic play such as running, jumping and kicking and throwing.
- Children (5-12 years) and young people (13-17 years): at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity every day.
The percentage of children meeting current guidelines is:
- 61% of two to five-year-olds
- 26% of five to 12-year-olds
- 7.9% of 13 to 17-year-olds.
The Resilience Project
This week’s at home activity is focusing on a fitness frenzy. Why not try to have some fun getting fit together during the week. The challenge for the week is to complete as many PE lessons as possible from the following two YouTube channels;
PE with Joe OR
Get moving and have fun!
Specialist classes
The children have been doing some fantastic work in their SWAP specialist class. Last week the juniors identified their personal strengths and gave an example of a time when they were able to demonstrate this character strength. Here’s what some of the children had to say….
CARING: is when you are kind to someone. Sometimes, if your Mum says it is okay to be caring to strangers you can be caring to strangers too. I found a sick butterfly on a scooter ride with my Mum, brother and dog. I was enjoying holding it and helping it keep safe, but my brother was sad because he didn't have one. So I gently gave it to him and taught him how to hold it to keep it safe. We then let it go and it flew away happy. Even though I wanted to hold it, I shared with my brother so he could enjoy the feeling too. It made him so happy! It made me so happy to make him smile. By Elysian
HELPFUL: Being helpful means helping people in need. I can show this by helping Mummy in the kitchen. By Alexander R
LOVING:
I am loving when I hug my brother. By Janaya
LOVING :
That you love people. Take care of people. Make sure if someone trips over, you can go over and give them a hand to pull them up. And if you are at home, kiss your family. If my family is struggling, tell them it’s ok and give them a hug.
If your dog got your new headphones then I will try to get the headphones off him. By Bethany
Meaningful May Action Calendar
Check out the Meaningful May Action Calendar for some practical actions for happiness. www.actionforhappiness.org
Rachel Lenko
Student Wellbeing Leader