P-2 Cross Country

This Term all students in Years Prep-2 have been busily training for the P-2 Interhouse Cross Country which will be held on Wednesday 20th June starting at 1.40pm. A letter giving details of the event was sent home this week. All parents are warmly invited to come along and support their children’s participation in the event.

Emotional resilience is essential to help deal with the daily confrontations with difficult people, making wrong choices, getting bad results, encountering negative situations that are beyond our control and struggling with day-to-day things that are boring, difficult or what we consider a waste of time.  As adults we generally face such difficulties with varying levels of resilience. Teaching children the skills to support the development of resilience is an important facet of growth and development.  Negative habits-of-mind, greatly fuel emotional discomfort. These negative habits of mind include self-downing, the need to be perfect, the need for approval, the ‘I can’t do it’ or ‘I can’t be bothered’ mindset and being intolerant of others.  This week I would like to continue to share some strategies from the You Can Do It Program which may help eliminate or help to balance these negative mindsets.