'Feeling Good and Thriving'

Our school’s Wellbeing Framework empowers students, staff, and whānau to develop the tools and strategies to ‘feel good and thrive’. Teams use the different dimensions of our Framework to explicitly teach students strategies to support the development of these tools.

Over the past two weeks, teams have been busy enjoying lessons with Harrold the Giraffe and Lou from Life Education. Life Education is New Zealand’s largest health education provider, supporting the health and wellbeing of children for over 30 years. Specialist Educators provide schools with unique lessons to meet their children’s learning needs. Children are excited to enter the mobile classroom where they have engaging and memorable learning experiences.

Māunu

We have been focusing on the Social and Emotional dimensions of the Wellbeing Framework through the lessons we have had with Life Education. We learned about how what we say to others can either make them feel ‘warm and fuzzy’ or ‘cold and prickly’. This was a nice, easy way for children to understand the difference between kind and unkind words. We also learned about how to decide if issues were small problems that the tamariki could solve on their own or if they were bigger ones that they needed support with.  

Kōraho

We have been focusing on the Social and Emotional dimensions of the Wellbeing Framework through our regular timetabled Wellbeing sessions. Over the past couple of weeks, we have been looking at Resilience, what it is, and what strategies we can use to help us overcome challenges and bounce back. During this time there has also been the opportunity to discuss fairness and rules and how to cope with losing games. We have also reflected on our PB4L ‘kindness’ and ‘helping each other’ goal, by participating in some fun teamwork activities. 

Pīrere

The Pīrere team has been focusing on the Social Dimension of our Wellbeing Framework over the past couple of weeks. We each spent two sessions with Lou and Harold from the Life Education team learning about how our actions can impact others. The two lessons taught us about seeing both sides of the story. Back in the learning space, we have talked about how this relates to things that happen here at school, both in and out of the classroom. This has led to some really interesting discussions and has given us some strategies to use when we are making difficult decisions in our play. The friendship bracelets that we made for the Twilight fair provided us with another good opportunity to discuss what makes a good friend.

Kātua

Kātua students enjoyed two sessions with Lou and Harold in Week 4. We explored a range of topics that were relevant to Year 7 and 8 students as young adolescents heading into teenage years and high school. Our first session taught us about the positives and negatives of peer pressure and reminded us of the responsibility to be upstanders rather than bystanders. In the second session, students unpacked what reputation means, and how to cultivate a positive one.

Whānau Resource

If you would like to know more about the Life Education Trust, their programs, and resources then please follow the link below.

Life Education