Maintaining Children’s Focussed Attention Over The Holidays
It’s the holiday season and for most of us, a time to wind down. However, with school finished for another year, parents will discover that their often already busy schedule becomes even busier with children around the home for an extra 6 hours a day. With the inevitability that at some point you will be […]
A Self-Care Framework – 14 Tips For Updating Your Routine
It is common knowledge that looking after yourself is a key factor in happiness. However, it may be overlooked just how important implementing positive, effective self-care habits can be in our lives… A report by the Australian Health Policy Collaboration (AHPC) in 2017, found that there is a growing necessity for effective self-care policy and reform. […]
Sticking to Your Goals: A Self Management Guide
“New Year, New Me” is the cliché often ascribed following the establishment of most new year’s resolutions, usually made with iron-clad conviction. Unfortunately by February, research shows 80% of these well-intentioned goals for self-improvement will have fallen apart. So how do we create goals we can stick to? The reality is; the stronger your self-management skills are, the […]
What You Need to Know About the New Australian Wellbeing Framework
Helping students reach their full potential has been a perennial challenge of educators and parents alike, with many different factors at play and a growing understanding of how to address these challenges. A key aspect to this potential being fulfilled is understanding and improving the status of student’s social, emotional and physical wellbeing. One study showed that 1 […]
IQ vs EQ: Why Do We Need Both?
The notion of success has most strongly been linked to general or academic intelligence (IQ) throughout history. However, over the past decade or so, there has been an increased awareness of emotional intelligence (EQ) with some researchers claiming its utility in forming behaviour and relationship management techniques. It has been found that these skills are crucial determinants […]
How SEL Can Impact The Individual Student | Stories From The Classroom
Have you ever wondered what kind of impact social, emotional and physical learning could have on the lives of individual students? We called upon our teachers who work in the hundreds of schools that we partner with across Australia, to share some of their impactful stories from our in-school social, emotional and physical learning programs. Here’s […]
Implementing a Growth Mindset in Classrooms
Developing a growth mindset is one key aspect of metacognition: the understanding of one’s own ability to process thoughts. I’m sure we’ve all heard someone say; “I’ll never be an artist, I’m terrible at drawing…” and then watch them give up on their dreams. Then there’s always that one person who seems to be able to […]
How to Measure Wellbeing and SEL in Primary Schools
The ability to measure the results of social, emotional learning (SEL) programs has become a major obstacle in the adoption of SEL programs for many schools around the world. The New Vision For Education report from the World Economic Forum acknowledges this: “Lack of measurement emerged from our survey as one of the most important impediments to promoting SEL among […]
Taming Your Brain: Emotional Regulation Through Mindfulness
Research from Harvard suggests that mindfulness exercises such as meditation, breathing and relaxation can have significant physiological benefits such as decreased risk of hypertension and reduced inflammation. This study builds upon what we already know about mindfulness exercises and their impact on reducing stress and anxiety. For many, these benefits come as no huge surprise, however the hard part […]
3 Strategies to Reduce Anxiety in Primary School Children
The first day of term, public speaking, NAPLAN, even just everyday interactions on the playground – what do these have in common? If you guessed common sources of anxiety for primary school children, give yourself a pat on the back. As adults with life experience, these activities can seem relatively innocuous, however, in a big and […]