At Koo Wee Rup Primary School, we are privileged to be a partnership school with The Resilience Project. Students are explicitly taught evidence-based mental health strategies to help build resilience and happiness.
They key principles of The Resilience Project are the GEM +EL principles:
Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy.
Gratitude: being thankful for the things they DO HAVE and not worrying about what they don't have. Did you know that if you make a list of 3 things that you are grateful for everyday for 21 days, it will change the way you see things for the better?
Empathy: they want to HELP OUT OTHERS, not for any extrinsic reward. Did you know when you help others, it not only makes the recipient feel good, but you feel good too?
Mindfulness: being PRESENT AND IN THE MOMENT and not constantly looking to the future. Did you know that our brains receive 60 000 pieces of information in a week? Prior to the Internet we received that much information in a year.
Emotional Literacy: recognising our own emotions and using tools and strategies to help us with our emotions when we need it. Having a ‘toolbox’ of things to help us when we are worried, frustrated or even upset helps us know that while things might be tricky right now, we can work through it, and we will be ok.
Please go to the Parent and Carer Hub from The Resilience Project to find out more about the key principles we focus on teaching our students.
They key principles of The Resilience Project are the GEM +EL principles:
Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy.
Gratitude: being thankful for the things they DO HAVE and not worrying about what they don't have. Did you know that if you make a list of 3 things that you are grateful for everyday for 21 days, it will change the way you see things for the better?
Empathy: they want to HELP OUT OTHERS, not for any extrinsic reward. Did you know when you help others, it not only makes the recipient feel good, but you feel good too?
Mindfulness: being PRESENT AND IN THE MOMENT and not constantly looking to the future. Did you know that our brains receive 60 000 pieces of information in a week? Prior to the Internet we received that much information in a year.
Emotional Literacy: recognising our own emotions and using tools and strategies to help us with our emotions when we need it. Having a ‘toolbox’ of things to help us when we are worried, frustrated or even upset helps us know that while things might be tricky right now, we can work through it, and we will be ok.
Please go to the Parent and Carer Hub from The Resilience Project to find out more about the key principles we focus on teaching our students.
