EASTBOURNE Primary School students dressed in yellow on R U OK? Day and were involved in activities that provide strategies to help students in dealing with mental health issues.
“The day has been an excellent one that also provided many fun activities at recess and lunch,” wellbeing coordinator Skye Miller said.
Last Thursday (8 September) students danced in the hall to recorded music while handicraft activities took place in the library, cooking in the school’s kitchen and bubbles floated through the playground.
The afternoon session included Jeannette Hausley from Jimmies, speaking to the upper school students about mental health and dealing with anxiety.
“R U OK? reinforces some of the areas in the school’s program, the resilience project’, Miller said. “It also gives many strategies to students based around gratitude, empathy and mindfulness. Our students have coped really well since COVID, based on how equipped they have become due to this initiative.
“Our soon to be completed wellbeing hub, will provide another aspect to dealing with issues based on, and associated with, mental health.”
R U OK? Day ended with students being given a show bag from the parents and friends group, a sausage sizzle by McCrae and District Lions and treats, fruit and breakfast from Anglicare.
First published in the Southern Peninsula News – 13 September 2022
