Respectful Relationships & Wellbeing News
Respectful Relationships
Our students respectful relationships lessons in all the classes are now coming to an end and we should we really proud of our community for completing all 8 topics of the program across the year.
Topic 1: Emotional literacy
Topic 2: Personal strengths
Topic 3: Positive coping
Topic 4: Problem-solving
Topic 5: Stress management
Topic 6: Help-seeking
Topic 7: Gender and identity
Topic 8 Positive gender relations
Over the school holidays it would be great if students continued to work on their emotional literacy and how they are feeling during a situation they may be great or a struggle they may feel during the holiday period. Research shows that students who participate inrigorously designed and well-taught social andemotional learning programs demonstrate morepositive social behaviour, are less likely to engage inrisky and disruptive behaviour, and show improvedacademic outcomes. Collaborative learning activities help students to build their social skills. Building a large vocabulary for emotions helps to increase emotional literacy, build self-awareness and empathy for others. Teaching our children about feelings (the full range of them) is just as important as teaching them literacy & numeracy skills (If not more so!).
Emotional literacy is the phrase that is used when talking about an individual's ability to recognise, understand, and appropriately express feelings. The ability to label feelings is a developmental skill that is learned through experience; we're not born with the ability. Just as early literacy skills are the basic building blocks for reading and writing; emotional literacy is the foundation you give your child to understand the world of feelings.
Wellbeing podcast of the week
In this episode, Dr Emily reflects on why Emotional Awareness, and explains why it’s not only important to identify your unpleasant emotions, but why it's even more important to express them when they arise.
sbrown@shsandringham.catholic.edu.au
Simon Brown
Head of Wellbeing