FROM THE REC AND CLASSROOM SUPPORT TEACHER
Religious Education
Upcoming Chapel Masses:
Friday 22nd October Week 3 - 1/2F
Friday 5th November Week 5 - 1/2B
Friday 12th November Week 6 - 1/2M
Parents are able to attend Chapel Mass following the Church COVID guidelines.
Ways to Pray
A Centering Prayer Experience
- You may wish to light a candle.
- Find a comfortable position to enable you to remain still, then close your eyes.
- Repeat a sacred word (e.g love, peace, Jesus) as an intention to consent to God’s presence.
- If you become aware of other thoughts/sounds/feelings, gently return to your sacred word.
- At the end of your experience, remain in silence with your eyes closed for a couple of minutes.
Helping Children to Regulate
This week I participated in Professional Learning with Royal Far West. The module focused on Supporting Attention and Behaviour: Understanding Reasons for Attention and Behaviour Difficulties, and how to help.
A few thoughts and tips for parents:
*Humans never stop needing help from others to regulate our emotions
*Empathy is an important technique. Demonstrate you understand how your child feels by labelling emtions, using few words, using statements not questions and using a low tone in your voice.
*Use sensory strategies such as deep pressure eg a tight hug.
*It can be hard to support big emotions so practice empathy with the small emotions to help your child be able to regulate better when there are big emotions.