Today, you'll learn about networking - what it is, why it's important, and how to do it well. Whether you're looking for a job, seeking advice on university applications, or exploring different career paths, networking can open up endless opportunities. Connect is your chance to get started on networking today!

Today is all about your personal brand! You'll have the chance to think abut your bio, and to consider your online presence as to start to seek out potential professional opportunities.

Today, you'll learn about the final steps involved in completing your Regulate and Ready Routine. You'll identify strategies that will help you to manage different uncomfortable emotions, and you'll learn how to review and change your strategies as needed. Great work on completing your Routine!

We're back to thinking about emotions this week! Today, you'll learn about cognitive restructuring as a potential emotion regulation strategy. You'll also learn about Step 3 of your Regulate and Ready Routine, which involves identifying strategies that you can use when you experience particular uncomfortable emotions at school.

This week, you have the opportunity to complete the annual Attitudes to School Survey. This is an anonymous and confidential survey that provides our school with important information about your experience at school. Your responses will inform planning and decision-making here at Mac.Rob. We're listening to you!

This week, we're celebrating International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination. You'll learn more about IDAHOBIT and you'll have a chance to make a poster about IDAHOBIT. 

Regulate and Ready Routine: Step 2

This week, you'll learn about Step 2 of your Regulate and Ready Routine, which involves recognising when you're feeling an uncomfortable emotion, and identifying how you would prefer to feel. You'll also learn about two very effective emotion regulation techniques - Progressive Muscle Relaxation and grounding techniques. You are encouraged to try out and practise these strategies over the next few weeks, to see if they might be effective for you. 

Regulate and Ready Routine: Step 1

Today, you'll learn about Step 1 of your Regulate and Ready Routine, which involves determining if you are ready to learn. You'll create your own Ready to Learn Check that you can use in every lesson from now on, and you'll identify the cognitive and physical indicators that are associated with different emotions for you.

Regulate and Ready Routine: What is emotion regulation?

Today, you'll begin a series of lessons focussing on our new Regulate and Ready Routine. You'll learn more about what emotion regulation is, and why developing this skill is crucial for effective learning. The Regulate and Ready Routine will allow you to build your own, individualised plan for helping you to regulate your emotions at school, thus making you more ready to learn!