Grow Your Mind
Grow your mind
Grow your mind is our new social and emotional wellbeing program for students in Kinder to Grade 6. This program provides students with a toolbox of strategies so they can thrive in life and have the skills to cope with daily stressors. We aim to create a common language that can be used at school and home so that families can support the key messages delivered.
This is what students have been focusing on so far:
Character strengths: For the next two weeks our whole school is focusing on the character strength of respect. Students have been learning about what respect is, how we can grow respect and how we can show respect in different environments.
Conversation starters for your family on respect:
1.What is respect?
- How does your family show respect at home?
- Share a time when you have demonstrated respect yourself.
- Share a time when your child has demonstrated respect.
Students have also been creating wellbeing check ins:
Students have continued to learn about the animals.
Wise owl – pre frontal cortex – helps you to make good decisions and problem solve.
The guard dog- the amygdala- if it sense danger it keeps you safe.
Sifting sooty- RAS- Helps you to block out distractions and concentrate.
Elephant – the hippocampus – It helps you to store memories and remember.
Sensitive Octopus- the Insular Cortex- Demonstrates how to be a good friend and show empathy.
Everything is going smoothly when the animals are talking to each other we can focus, make wise decisions, remember things and feel safe. Sometime the guard dog makes every day stressors and set back such as mistakes or an argument with a friend as a serious threat. The guard dog can get really big and bossy and make it hard for the other animals to do their jobs.
Through this program students learn how to recognise when the guard dog is getting really big and can be taught ways to keep it calm.
The character strength focus for the next two weeks will be kindness!
