Year 8s Building Resilience
Building resilience is an integral aspect of the Year 8 Mercy Wellbeing Curriculum. Building resilience helps us bounce back from failure, overcome challenges, and maximise our potential.
College Counsellor, Dr Kimberlee Burrows, led a pastoral session this week with the Year 8 cohort on how to build resilience in order to face challenges. The students were issued a custom-made booklet where they were able to work through a series of activities about resilience while hearing Kimberlee speak. This Year 8 Mercy Wellbeing session followed another recent presentation made by Kimberlee about overcoming ‘Perfectionism’.
What I Learnt Today
Below, some of the Year 8s share what they learned today.Â
I learned in Pastoral Care Time (PCT) with Dr Burrows today the four pillars of resilience. I learned about the importance of relationships and connection, helpful thinking processes, purpose, and gratitude. I now know what to rely on when I’m feeling rigid or non-resilient. Molly Carmichael
At the resilience talk today, I learned that through tough times when a challenge arises, and I don’t know how to deal with it, I can use the four pillars of resilience: Relationships and Connections, Helpful Thinking, Purpose, and Gratitude. Paige Lagana
At the resilience talk today with Dr Burrows, I learned the importance of the four S’s to focus on whenever I need help to get past my problems. Supportive people, strategies, sagacity (wisdom & insights), solution-seeking behaviours are the four main key plans to rely on whenever I need reassurance or help to overcome my worries and emotions. I found the talk really helpful and interesting, and I can definitely use the four S’s in the future when I have any unsure emotions. Alyssa Mulgat
I learned today about resilience to never underestimate someone else’s problems because they might be going through a tough time and aren’t able to tell people what they are going through. Sofia Gotsis
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Author: Santa Maria College
Santa Maria College is a vibrant girls school with a growing local presence and reputation. Our Mission is to educate young Mercy women who act with courage and compassion to enrich our world. Santa Maria College is located in Attadale in Western Australia, 16 km from the Perth CBD. We offer a Catholic education for girls in Years 5 – 12 and have 1300 students, including 152 boarders.
