Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships

On Tuesday the 1st of June a Parent Forum regarding Respectful Relationships and the curriculum was delivered to our parent community. This was offered remotely via Webex by our NWMR representatives Brigette Walker and Peta Falau.

As previously mentioned, the Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships Curriculum covers eight topics:

Emotional Literacy
Personal Strengths
Positive Coping
Problem Solving
Stress Management
Help Seeking
Gender and Identity
Positive Gender Relations

All teachers at CHPS participated in Professional Development at the beginning of the year regarding Topics 1 – 6, and spent the afternoon of Wednesday the 9th of June learning more about teaching the last two (2) topics.

Each fortnight in the Newsletter you will find information regarding lesson activities that could form part of your child’s learning regarding each of the Respectful Relationships topics.

The focus of this fortnight’s information is:

Topic 6 - Stress Management

AIMS:

Activities within this topic area will assist students to:

Describe the influence that people, situations and events have on their emotions
Explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change
Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe
Explain the value of self-discipline and goal setting in helping them to learn and to cope with change and challenge
Describe personal strengths and identify coping strategies that they can apply

Stress is a normal part of life, especially as children get older. Children who cope better with life’s stressors develop good mental health and wellbeing. Assisting students to recognise their personal signs and symptoms of stress and to develop strategies that will help them to deal with those effectively, will help them cope with challenges in the future. The activities focus on the ways in which self-calming strategies can be used to manage stressful situations.’ fuse.education.vic.gov.au

The following links provide an insight into what an activity at each curriculum level might look like:

An activity at Foundation may look like THIS
An activity at Year One or Two may look like: THIS
An activity at Year Three and Four may look like: THIS
An activity at Year Five and Six may look like: THIS

Year Four students decided that cuddling a pet or soft toy often reduces their stress levels:

Making music at home