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Week Seven - October 11th, 2024
11 October 2024
GIS Mental Wellness Week in Action
Wellness Week was a smashing success! The week contained something for everyone. Students across all of the PYP homerooms entered into a variety of themes that explored mental wellness. From self affirmation, to the "Power of Yet", students found great depth in exploring self in their class meetings.
We are also proud to announce the official launch of Upstrive in the PYP, a social and emotional learning platform that we are currently using to monitor students' wellbeing. Each day, students in grades 3-5 are "checking in" using a list of emotion emojis. Using this data, we will be able to create bespoke learning for students to better develop social and emotional skills.
Parents also got into the action! Through our parent ConnectED sessions, parents were able to self-reflect on their own parenting skills as they explored resilience and the impact of technology on child development.
We are looking forward to futher expanding out social and emotional learning opportunities for all stakeholders. Please reach out to any of our staff with more ideas!
4 October 2024
GIS Mental Wellness Week
We are incredibly excited to share our upcoming GIS Mental Wellness Week. The week will include activities for everyone in the community. From digital wellness for parents to work balance for staff. Students will dig in the deepest as they engage in daily class meetings and activities that see them unpacking and developing strategies for mental wellness.
Don't forget to wear green on Thursday in support of Mental Wellness Week!
Power of Words Assembly
Counsellor, Ms. Rose, did a wonderful job in her assembly with student this week. She engaged the students in reflective and thoughful thinking routines that enabled the grades 4-5 student to see the power of the words.
In a truly international and inclusive school, language can become a powerful tool for connection and relationships. Ms. Rose did an incredible job guiding students through a reflective journey of word use. Through the presentation, students were able to gain new insites and strategies for thinking and speaking positively in order to grow in communication and speaking skill.
27 September 2024
Wellbeing takes many forms at GIS, oftentimes in creative and engaging ways. Above, our local principled pirate Captain Bluebeard is engaging our Pre-k students in conversations about being principled and balanced. He discussed the many ways to be kind to one another while learing to share. Students felt empowered and gave their best principled pirate roar!
Students also explored inclusivity through discussion about Captain Bluebeard's eye patch and how our differences are what make us unique and strong!
We are sure Captain Bluebeard will visit many more classes through the year as he helps to develop self-regulation skills and principled decision making in students.
20 September 2024
Students, parents and staff alike were over the moon with this week's Back-to-School Connection Event. This year, the primary team wanted to enhance our "Back-to School Night" with something exciting, new and innovation for GIS families. Indeed, it seems that new approach worked with hundreds of parents coming and taking part in their student's learning.
This event offered parents an opportunity to take part in class meetings and learning directly in the homeroom classes. With Positive Discipline, connection, and self-management skills as the central themes of class meetings, parents gave compliments, spoke in the foreign tongues and had the opportunity to see their own children in the midst of learning and community building.
As a staff, we are more than pleased to see the community members growing tighter through events like this. Sharing our truly international nature only benefits the children, and intimately families, at GIS. We hope to continue developing more ambitious, interactive and meaningful events with GIS families as we strive to help children grow and learn.
13 September 2024
Classroom Meetings:
Classroom Meetings:
Scenarios to Solve
Scenarios to Solve
Class meetings offer students and whole classes the opportunity to develop a variety of social, communication and self-management skills through the Positive Discipline framework. We are very fortunate that time has been allocated in all PYP homerooms each day for students and teachers to connect through class meetings. Each meeting is like a fingerprint, very different in the learning and connection it contains due to its adaptive nature.
In the photo above, students from Mrs. Maya's 4F homeroom are using scenarios to develop skills. This example has students discussing school procedures and how to participate in them safely and kindly. In the early part of the school year, class meeting are often focused on routines and procedures with deeper dives into problem solving once the basics are covered. Through class meetings, classes can use the power of "us" to work their way through most any problem.
September 6th, 2024
In our commitment to student wellbeing and safeguarding, the GIS PYP has rolled out an interesting, unique and transformational class space called the “Calm Corner.” As part of our Positive Discipline initiative towards students’ social and emotional learning, each classroom now hosts a Calm Corner where students can practice self-management skills.
In our commitment to student wellbeing and safeguarding, the GIS PYP has rolled out an interesting, unique and transformational class space called the “Calm Corner.” As part of our Positive Discipline initiative towards students’ social and emotional learning, each classroom now hosts a Calm Corner where students can practice self-management skills.
Calm Corners are designed to create a space and moment for students to process thoughts and emotions using skills gained during “Class Meetings,” another of our major Positive Discipline initiatives.
Calm Corners are designed to create a space and moment for students to process thoughts and emotions using skills gained during “Class Meetings,” another of our major Positive Discipline initiatives.
Calm Corners are centered around the idea that students learn and develop skills to work and problem-solve their way through common, unique or complex situations, moments or emotions.
Calm Corners are centered around the idea that students learn and develop skills to work and problem-solve their way through common, unique or complex situations, moments or emotions.
Finally, Calm Corners will contain an increasing set of universal emotions graphics in a various translations, along with practical skills developed by classes to grow in social, self-management and communication skills.
Finally, Calm Corners will contain an increasing set of universal emotions graphics in a various translations, along with practical skills developed by classes to grow in social, self-management and communication skills.
We look forward to sharing much more in our Positive Discipline journey throughout the year.
We look forward to sharing much more in our Positive Discipline journey throughout the year.
30th August 2024
PASTORAL CARE TEAM 24-25
PASTORAL CARE TEAM 24-25
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