Last Monday morning, we launched 'The Resilience Project' across the school. The Resilience Project (TRP) is a program committed to teaching positive mental health strategies to prevent mental ill-health and build young people’s capacity to deal with adversity. We will be implementing their evidence-based Teaching and Learning Program throughout our classrooms, staffroom and school community.

Teachers and students will engage in weekly lessons and activities around the key principles of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness (GEM) and Emotional Literacy to build resilience. These lessons will occur first thing every Monday morning. 

You will start to hear your children talk about "GEM CHAT" and how looking at the positive changes the way we feel and act towards others. There is a flyer sharing more information and I will be posting in the newsletter regularly so that you can integrate TRP (The Resilience Project) into your own homes. I will also be setting you a family challenge to try or GEM Chat topic. You will find this week's below.

FAMILY CHALLENGE

Sometime during the next fortnight, as family discuss what you are grateful for and share different moments of happiness and what makes you smile.  Complete a family poster writing/drawing what your family is grateful for.  When your family has completed this challenge I invite you to either email me an image of your completed poster, or send in the poster.  I will use the family posters to create an  "SJV Family Gratitude Wall" to be displayed in the school.

I have provided some optional templates:  Gratitude_template_1.pdf, Gratitude_template_2.pdf, Gratitude_template_3.pdf to help make the task easier.

Completed posters can be either sent in or emailed: nina.derosa@cg.catholic.edu.au

More parent information about The Resilience Project can be found in the Principal's Message.

Mrs D’s ‘Thought of the Week….’ 

“Gratitude changes your perspective about life.  You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way." Erwin McManus

Nina De Rosa

Assistant Principal