Emotional Regulation

Social-emotional learning enables students to develop self-awareness, self-control, and the interpersonal skills that are important for school, work and life outcomes. Social-emotional competence helps students cope with everyday challenges and improves learning and wellbeing.

We are aiming for all student to develop understanding and skills which:

• nurture a positive sense of self
• promote respectful relationships
• build capacity to manage emotions, behaviours and interactions with others.

The Zones of Regulation is a framework that we are using to teach our students how to regulate their feelings, energy and sensory needs. We are working with students throughout the school to develop their vocabulary around emotions; to understand how their body and brain feels when they are experiencing different emotions; to understand the different zones which describe their emotional, physical and mental states; and to develop strategies (or tools) to support them to regulate. Please see the chart below which briefly describes the 4 Zones. More information about this will be shared throughout the year in the newsletter and on our school FB page. Please let us know if you'd like to know more.

Lynn Wyllie-Watson