PBL Up-date

The upcoming fortnight’s behaviour focus is going to be a lesson on “Flipping your Lid”. This is about arming our students with skills and strategies to assist them in responding to emotional triggers in a constructive way, and to communicate and manage strong or intense emotions more effectively.

The concept is based around recognising and understanding the signs in our bodies that let us know when our emotions are becoming overwhelming, and being able to employ strategies to avoid us “flipping our lid”. The hand model of the brain is used to assist students in understanding the role each of the different parts of our brains play, and how a balance in all the parts is required in order for us to regulate our emotions.

Students will be explicitly taught about the process that occurs in our brains when we are overcome with emotions such as anger, frustration, anxiety to name a few. Students will then be taught effective tools to calm and manage their self-regulation.

You may like to ask your child about the hand model of the brain in the upcoming weeks. Some adults find this concept beneficial in managing their emotions too!

Dougie Dollars

Despite our recent school closure due to Covid, our Wondall Learners are well on their way to achieving our school goal of 5000 Dougie Dollars! Our students are motivated and diligent at being Safe, Respectful and Responsible every day, in order to earn our whole school reward. Staff are constantly on the look out for those displaying our school expectations and values and have Dougie Dollars at the ready to reward those students!