Guide to Thrive – tools to support Year 6-7 Transition
Videos, flyers and resources to help you guide your young person through the transition to secondary school.
Resources
Information and advice from around the web
When do day to day worries turn into anxiety – and how can primary schools help students?
In this webinar targeted for Primary schools, psychologist Dr Lyn O'Grady dwells deep into children's worries and what primary schools could do to support them.
The secondary school’s role in understanding and responding to student anxiety
In this webinar targeted for Seconary schools, psychologist Dr Lyn O'Grady unpacks the impact of life's uncertainiites on students' mental health and the secondary school's role in helping students with anxiety,
Supporting students mental health - Re-adjusting to living with COVID-19
In this webinar, psychologist Dr Lyn O'Grady draws upon national and international research about the impact of COVID-19 on students' mental health to explore what this might look like in a school setting.
Challenge, opportunity and personal strengths
Work with students to identify potential stressors and some sources of support or advice.
Wellbeing activities and conversation starters
A range of activities that will help build and maintain students’ wellbeing. Suitable for secondary school-aged children.
Cooperative learning thinking tool
Meeting the social and emotional needs of students is a challenge for schools, yet is essential for learning.
Trauma-informed Practice for Challenging Behaviours Webinar recording
Rebecca Harris' webinar recording of Trauma-informed Practice for Challenging Behaviours
Supporting children after a community trauma
This podcast explores the importance of addressing the psychosocial needs of children following a community trauma.
Trauma-informed practice in education
Explore the meaning of trauma-informed practice in a school context, along with some great practical resources.
Emerging Minds Trauma Toolkit
This toolkit provides a range of resources to help and suppport adults and children deal with a disaster or traumatic event.
Using stories and games in disaster recovery
Find resources for young children to help them cope with natural disasters.
Mindfulness Meditation Webinar Recording
Recording of Nicole Lee's webinar on Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation Webinar Notes
Handout notes to accompany Nicole Lee's webinar on mindfulness meditation
Doing What Matters in Times of Stress
An illustrated guide for coping with adversity from the World Health Organization.
Professional learning
The Student Wellbeing Hub provides many free online courses for teachers and educators. These courses are recommended for anyone wanting to learn more about building student resilience or managing your own wellbeing.
Educator
Building student resilience
Explore the latest research about resilience. Learn how school communities have responded to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other events. Plan strategies from the classroom to the whole school environment to sustain resilient attitudes and practices.
Choose from 3 modules
Certificate for completion of each module
Self-paced learning
Educator
Principal and teacher wellbeing
When educators have a strong sense of wellbeing they are more able to support the health and wellbeing of their colleagues and their students, and to deliver the best possible learning outcomes for all.
Choose from three free modules
Self-paced modules
Resources, references and links
Certificate of course completion
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Relationships education for students with autism
In this webinar recording, Dr Emma Goodall discusses strategies for teaching students with autism about relationships and topics related to personal development.
Module 1 Years 7-8 - Expressing feelings
Teaching resource for students with autism.
All Of Us: Jamiee's video (lesson two)
A video case study to accompany the All Of Us unit.
Changing the picture
A national resource to support the prevention of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children.
The man box video
The man box video is a summary of 'The men's project', a study into what it is to be a young man in Australia. It focuses on the attitudes to manhood and the behaviours of young Australian men, aged 18 to 30.
Return to school resources
Resources focused on community recovery, to help principals and school staff start to bring their schools back together following recent challenging times.