AROUND THE SCHOOL
HOLIDAY PROGRAM
Have a look in the Holiday Care Section for full details of the program RNPS will be having here at RNPS in the July school holidays.
ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS
This year you can purchase your Entertainment Books directly from the school office or by clicking the link below. The cost is $70.
You can purchase a book or a digital phone app not only for Melbourne but many areas around Australia, New Zealand and Bali for terrific holiday savings. Great for presents too!
SCHOLASTIC BOOKCLUB
Every purchase from Scholastic Book Club
helps the school to buy extra library and classroom resources.
RNPS offers Scholastic Book Club once a term. Families should order and pay for Book Club by using the online LOOP platform. This will ensure that students get their orders, which are delivered to school for free, and that the correct payment is received. Please use the link to register and start your order www.scholastic.com.au/loop
LOOP is also available as an app, for both apple and Android devices.
Families who order via LOOP will receive a free reusable book bag with their second order for the year, and a poster and bookmark for those who place their third order.
MATHLETICS OF THE FORTNIGHT
CHAPLAINS CHAT
Helping Children to Manage Feelings
Children can be quickly taken over by feelings of excitement, frustration, fear or joy and when the feelings come they are often intense.
When feelings take over children’s behaviour, they can often find it difficult to manage without support. Parents and carers can support their children in learning to manage their feelings and behaviour. Learning how to recognise and manage feelings is an important part of children’s social and emotional development.
Before children can learn to control their feelings, they must learn how to notice them. We can help children notice feelings by noticing them ourselves and giving them labels such as angry, sad, nervous, excited, frustrated, embarrassed, worried, surprised, or happy. Naming our feelings helps to make them more manageable. Learning to pay attention to how they are feeling helps children understand that all feelings are okay and that they can have emotions without being controlled by them.
Talking with children about what it’s like when you’re angry, sad, nervous or excited helps them find ways to express feelings without having to act them out through negative behaviours.
We can support children by creating space for talking about difficult emotions. Although all feelings are okay, some feelings can be more difficult to cope with than others. We can help children to separate a feeling from a difficult reaction by helping them name it. Being able to say or think “I am feeling angry” means that children don’t have to act really angry before we take notice. Learning to name their feelings allows children to choose how they will respond.
Learning skills for managing feelings takes practice. Noticing and naming feelings comes first. Talking about feelings in everyday conversations makes it easier when the difficult feelings come up.
Dorothy Dullege
School Chaplain