Student Wellbeing - The Resilience Project
This year we have launched The Resilience Project (TRP) - an initiative that’s designed to help our students build essential emotional skills for navigating life’s ups and downs by focussing on the following principles:
● Gratitude: paying attention to and being thankful for the things we have.
● Empathy: understanding others’ feelings and perspectives and being kind to others.
● Mindfulness: bringing our attention to the present moment and being aware of our thoughts, emotions and surroundings.
● Emotional Literacy: labelling our emotions as we experience them and increasing our emotional vocabulary.
In today’s fast-paced world, resilience is more important than ever. It’s the ability to bounce back from setbacks, stay grounded in the face of challenges and cultivate a positive mindset. Through TRP we aim to equip our students with the tools they need to not only thrive in school, but to grow into confident, emotionally intelligent individuals.
Throughout the coming weeks, we'll be diving into various aspects of resilience, from fostering gratitude to developing mindfulness practices. We are looking forward to partnering with parents to help us develop not only the wellbeing of the students but also the staff, parents/carers and the wider school community as we believe that the best outcomes are achieved when families and schools work together. For those families who have already attended their Meet & Greet with classroom teachers, each family has been, or will be, gifted a pack of GEM conversation cards. We encourage families to utilise these cards and have these conversations at home. They are designed to ignite discussions and inspire the practical use of GEM principles in daily life.
The Resilience Project also includes excellent resources for parents and carers which we will share throughout the course of the year. Here is a short video, (3 mins) from one of the Imperfects podcasts. The Imperfects podcast, hosted by Hugh van Cuylenburg, Ryan Shelton and Josh van Cuylenburg, celebrates just how imperfectly perfect we all are. Together, they chat to a variety of people who bravely share their struggles and imperfections alongside valuable learnings we can apply to our own lives and use to support the teachings of TRP. Guests include Nathan Buckley, Grace Tame, Jack Steele, Zan Rowe, Michael Klim, Billy Slater, Lael Stone, Pat Cummins, Tim Minchin and many more.
Melissa Tronc
Director of Senior Primary