Empowering Wellness: A Recap of Health Week
This week we celebrated Health Week, which aims to educate students and staff, about various aspects of physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
This week we celebrated Health Week, which aims to educate students and staff, about various aspects of physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
‘Colour Me Home’, a personalised mindfulness colouring book for our Year 7 boarders, aims to alleviate homesickness, foster connections, and promote understanding amongst the group.
How to listen and respond when someone shares their problems or mental health struggles with you. (Includes 2 great downloads)
‘Conversation benches’ have been installed at the College this week, as a result of a submission by the Year 12 Student Leadership group.
Let’s start a conversation. What is R U OK? Day? When is it a good time to ask someone if they are ok? And how do you ask the question?
Year 12 Boarding Leaders approached the College recently with a submission to have an artwork installed in the Boarding School raising awareness of mental health.
We usually think of role models as people who are well behaved and have achieved excellence. Maybe, what our kids need more are role models who fail and then recover.
We usually think of role models as people who are well behaved and have achieved excellence. Maybe, what our kids need more are role models who fail and then recover.
We usually think of role models as people who are perfectly behaved and have achieved excellence. Maybe, what our kids need more are role models who fail and then recover.
Guiding and comforting children as they experience grief is difficult, especially when you are probably struggling yourself. Here is what our school has learnt about children’s grief.
Guiding and comforting a child as they experience grief is difficult, especially when you are often grieving yourself. Here is what our school has learnt about caring for grieving children.
Adolescence is a time of huge emotional turmoil. Our kids can feel overwhelmed by their feelings but they don’t yet know how to regulate them. This is how you can help.
Mindfulness training is scientifically proven to be good for children.
Find out more: https://santamaria.wa.edu.au/why-mindfulness-is-awesome/
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