Counseling Newsletter
Happy Spring from Your School Counselors!
Please check out our newsletter to see what we are doing as your SR school counselors. We are here to support ALL students and families!
Love,
Mrs. Davenport and Ms. Dimpflmaier (Ms. Dimpf)
Spring Highlights
The Great Kindness Challenge
In January Saddle Ridge Participated in the annual Great Kindness Challenge. This is a week where students got to participate in different challenges to spread kindness in our school community and beyond. They did this by completing the kindness challenge checklist, adding a link to our kindness chain with their own kind acts or words, and creating their own square for our Kindness Quit. We love celebrating this week and can’t wait for next year!
If you would like to keep the challenge going at home, I’ve linked the Family Kindness Challenge Checklist here.
Erin’s Law Lessons
In January we also completed our Georgia state required, Erin’s Law lessons on preventing sexual abuse. These lessons are created to be age appropriate for each grade level to help students learn about safe and unsafe touch, safe and unsafe secrets, and how to stay safe and protect themselves and others. If you have any questions or would like to see our lessons, please reach out and we are happy to share them with you. Additionally, if you decided to opt your student out of these lessons, we are happy to provide a copy of the lesson for you to go over the material with them yourself. To learn more about Erin’s Law check out their website.
The NED Show
The NED Show, is a character education program that centers around three important messages that have lifelong relevance: Never give up, Encourage others and Do your best. During the assembly, students will learn about the importance of these three life skills while also enjoying storytelling, magic, humor and yo-yo tricks.
Parents, meet NED! - http://www.thenedshow.com/parents.html
The NED Show homepage - http://www.thenedshow.com
Like them on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thenedshows
Small Groups
Small Groups have concluded for students PreK-8th grade! This a preventive action to provide more support for students in our school. These groups are not therapy, but more so a way for us to connect with more students and help provide them with skills to manage their feelings, connect better with peers, and do their best in and out of the classroom. If you are interested in your student joining a group next year reach out to us!
WHAT'S NEXT???
Elementary Weekly Lessons
For the month of April, we will be going into classrooms weekly to provide them with lessons on growth mindset, personal space, and conflict resolution. We can’t wait to get to connect with our elementary students while our others prepare and take their tests!
Transition events for our rising 6th graders and our rising 9th graders!
We are here to help our students feel supported during these important upcoming transitions.
