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Classroom ideas, Whole School Approach, Foundations - Updated
Children and young people spend a large proportion of their time in school. There are few other settings where large numbers of children and young people can be reached during their formative years of cognitive, emotional and social development. Promoting mental, emotional and social wellbeing early in life provides a strong platform for the future.
Photovoice is an effective way of engaging children and young people to share concerns, ideas and issues about school that are important to them. It also provides an opportunity to bring students and teachers together to share viewpoints and find out more about each other.
Emotional literacy (the ability to name and recognise different emotions) is critical to thinking about our feelings and managing our reactions. It can also help us to better understand - and be there for - others.
This game builds emotional literacy by encouraging tamariki to think about, name and share different emotions. Away from this game, we can encourage students to share their emotions when telling stories and expressing themselves, and by noticing and recognising the emotions we see in stories and everyday life.
Some tamariki seem to have a lot of energy. They like to jump, run, climb - sitting still is a challenge! Meanwhile others seem to have a lower energy output and gravitate towards calm activities.
This activity helps students to think about their energy in an objective way and learn strategies for adjusting it to suit different situations. It's a great intro to our other energy activities.
Alcohol and other drug abuse is really common. Find out about the services available for help with an alcohol or drug problem. This web page at the Ministry of Health is a portal to a range of resources.
In this guide, we share a number of helpful coping strategies that have been found to be useful by others struggling with self-injury. Often, recovery comes down to trying to cope moment-to-moment with the urges to self-injure, the day-to-day struggles with difficult emotions, as well as improving overall well-being in our lives. None of this is easy.
If you want to make a difference in the lives of the children in front of you – look for differences you can make to your professional practice.
Some of these ideas are suited to working with one child, some will apply to the whole class and some are concerned with your teaching space or your professional approach.
Classroom ideas, Support Agencies, Whole School Approach - Updated
The Bullying-Free NZ website is designed to act as a central hub for New Zealand schools. It provides guidance, resources and tools to schools to review, plan, and implement evidence-informed bullying prevention approaches.
Support Agencies, On Line Support, Foundations - Updated
It's not OK is a community-driven behaviour change campaign to reduce family violence in New Zealand. Its goal is to change attitudes and behaviour that tolerate any kind of family violence.
