Wellbeing

How to stay healthy over the holidays

Over the holidays it can be difficult for some children as they feel they are taken away from their routine of seeing their friends, teachers and being active. Headspace has offered some suggestions for families on how to help support your child to remain physically and socially active over the holidays. They have offered some tips on how to maintain parts of routine- such as sleep as well as offering some suggestions on how to stay active as a family.

Headspace- staying healthy over the holidays

Returning to school routine in the new year

As we look forward to welcoming our current and new families back for a new year, Raising Children has included some tips on how to support your child to get back into their school routine. They have provided links on the importance of sleep for children and how to create a smooth transition from home to school drop off. Please click on their link to continue to read about how to return to routine in the new year. 

Raising Children- Returning to school

WELLBEING FOR LEARNING

GETTING READY TO LEARN every day 

BEGINNING @ 8.50 AM IN CLASSROOMS  

Each morning we will begin with our ‘getting ready to learn’ time. 

This is a time to be ‘Present. Grounded and Centered.’ 

This time has a direct impact on student learning outcomes. 

This is a result of a lot of research into - the effect of wellbeing on learning:  focusing on student dispositions, teaching strategies when we are not in the zone of learning and ensuring we can recognise our zone and move from a not ready zone to a learning zone. 

Some days this will include meditation other days it will be a time for explicit teaching of a social or emotional focus. 

A question we will be asking - How charged are you today? How can you charge or recharge  your battery? 

HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US:

1. Children arrive no later than 8.40 am ready to begin at 8.50 (staff are all in rooms at 8.30)
2. Children have calm and settled mornings including breakfast
3. All external gates will be locked from 8.45 am to ensure staff can take part in this time, if you arrive late, your child will wait inside with our office staff until getting ready to learn is over at 9.10. This is to ensure meditation or mindfulness can occur without disruption.

We thank you for your support in this.