On Friday we held our first ever Kinder to Year 12 Wellbeing Day!

Our day was based on the key principles from The Resilience Project, alongside the Olympics and Paralympics with an exciting special guest Paralympian and former student, Scott Reardon. Dressed in our GEM colours, Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy our intentions were set with 100% commitment for the day, the activities began.

Scott delivered an inspiring presentation to each group of students with the highlight being the kids getting to feel and touch his Paralympic medals and prosthetic leg. Scott shared the importance of gratitude, proving that no matter what challenge you face coming back to a state of gratitude will guide us through. He used this a lot during his accident to help him navigate through life.

Scott then went into mindfulness, demonstrating and talking the kids through some guided breathing techniques. These techniques were able to calm him during those big moments of being on the starting line at the Paralympics and he explained how we can use these tools to help bring us back to a calm state at any time in our day.

We enjoyed lunch outside together with sausage sandwiches and fruit boxes.

Our activities for the day,

Gratitude                                                           Mindfulness

• Gratitude Jars                                            * Mindful Colouring  
• Gratitude Reflections                                * Making beaded key chains
• Gratitude A-Z with an M&M game           * Drawing & colouring key chains

Empathy- Whole school                                  Emotional Literacy

• Maranatha                                                 * Group Roleplays
• Gratitude Tree
• Bluey

To finish our day we ended with some Paralympic Races in our country groups and a Primary and Secondary dance off with the winning team, Secondary, versing the teachers. We don’t talk about who won that one!

Based on all feedback this was a great day for both staff and students!