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Thank you to awesome music teachers Maria Hadjis and Wayne Todd, and tech-extraordinaire, Francis Ngo for coordinating this assembly. Talk about student voice!

BURROWS HALL PUBLIC SCHOOL - “KEEPING IT COOL KIDS!”

~Ila Mistry, Grade 6 Teacher @ Burrow's Hall JPS

Since 2018 the KICK (Keeping it Cool Kids) program has been delivered in schools around the community. The Grade Six class at Burrows Hall Public School has been very fortunate to have been receiving this program. With the recent events of COVID-19 Malvern Family Resource Centre has taken the program on an online platform via Google Classroom and Instagram (@MalvernFRC).

The program will allow early adolescent youth to develop healthier methods to express their emotions through developmentally age appropriate activities which enables them to function successfully in all areas of their lives. These skills include building healthy relationships, conflict resolution, managing emotions, self-care strategies, and decision-making skills. The classroom will have weekly activities posted to engage youth.

Below are topics being covered in the KICK online classroom and Instagram page:

Modules Objectives:

1. Self-Identity: Fitting in and Belonging

By the end of this module, youth will have reflected on what it means to belong and fit into peer groups, family systems, and their communities.

2. Acceptance, Self-Acceptance and Strengths

By the end of this module, youth will be able to identify and describe the importance of accepting others, self-awareness and acceptance, and personal strengths.

3. Peer Pressure and Making Healthy Choices

By the end of this module, youth will be able to define and describe common sources and types of peer pressure. Through an exploration of decision making strategies, participants will also be able to identify ways of resisting peer pressure and making healthier choices that work for them.

4. Values and Ethics

By the end of this module, youth will be able to identify and describe personal values and ethics and how they impact their everyday lives.

5. Conflict Resolution

By the end of this module, youth will have an understanding of conflict and basic emotional regulation. Through an exploration of healthy conflict resolution strategies, participants will also be able to identify personal ways of dealing with conflict, and will use these strategies in their communities.

6. Stress and Healthy Coping Skills

By the end of this module, youth will have an understanding of issues causing stress, and basic coping skills to manage and reduce stress in healthy ways.

7. Building Healthy Relationships

By the end of this module, youth will be able to define and describe the importance of, and the characteristics of healthy relationships.

8. Self-Care and Mindfulness

By the end of this module, youth will have an understanding of the importance of self-care and ways in which they can engage in self-care on a daily basis. Participants will also have a basic understanding of mindfulness and can use both principles to stay healthy and increase mental well-being.

9. Leadership to Increase Self-esteem and Self-efficacy

By the end of this module, youth will be able to define and briefly describe leadership and the importance of leadership. Participants will also have an understanding of different forms of leadership and their usefulness.

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