Zones of Regulation

Zones of Regulation

With RTLBs Caroline Winter and Sarah

Trauma-

Caroline read out a poem from the perspective of a child with trauma.

Distressed and Deliberately Defiant

Two key things:  Relationships and Emotional Self Regulation.  

Need to help rewire brains to support children with relationships.  Expecting rejection, however are wanting relationship.  

Self Regulation- Taught to calm, minimise outbursts and have a plan in place to deal with outbursts.  

After a meltdown, thirty minutes of low stimulus activity.  Older kids need an hour.

  

Prevent, Teach, Reinforce

MOE initiative trialling, aimed at severe behaviour kids, team of people around child.  The manual needs to be followed step by step.  Class assessment needs doing.  This looks at feedback, 5 to 1.  Predictability, are timetables etc clear?  Routines-Are these set within each other?  Providing consistency for children.  Teaching expectations-have these been taught throughout the day.  Social Skills-Are these taught explicitly?  These things need to be in place before a referral is done or the observation even takes place.  

IYT

We identified what we do well and what we will work on this year.  

I think I am good at building relationships with children and families and have clear routines in place.

I need to work on sharing success with home more and emotional coaching.

Zones of Regulation

Target things that zones of regulation focus on.  Sensory, emotional, executive functioning, visual, social thinking regulation.

Staff Only Day 2019

Staff Only Day 2019

After doing our First Aid course yesterday, we had a full staff day so we could start off the year all on the same page and sharing the same focus.

This is the slide the leadership team collated for the two day sessions.  (Note the new logo).

Notes~

• Wellbeing is our focus-staff, students and whanau
• Focus on the students in front of us and determine what will work for them
• We are here to serve this community-what does that mean and what does it look like?
• Bullying and suicide in New Zealand is at crisis point.  Developing wellbeing and resilience starts with us when children are young.
• The first month is for settling and establishing expectations and our positive culture.
• Wellbeing- Identified ways we can support wellbeing.
• Charter-This will be based on a wellbeing lens.

School Based Mental Health Georgina Guild and Reece

Introduction to Sparklers

Link to Sparklers Site

Key points

• Behaviour is Communication
• Dan Siege and brain anatomy

Inner World Site

Calm, Clarity, Connected, Communication, Caring, Consistent

First Aid 2019

First Aid 2019

To kick off 2019 those of us who needed to, completed our First Aid Practical Certificate.  Mine had lapsed in 2012 and I had not been interested in doing the course.  To my surprise, it was actually really good.  
We had an app to work through throughout the holidays to complete the theory side of things.  When we were at school for the face to face part, we mainly focused on the practical side with a bit of revision.  

Betty shows us CPR

Mel got a whiteboard marker stuck in her arm

Kathy performs CPR to save this guy's life

Betty makes sure this guy is breathing