Teaching children resilience

By Youssef Saudie

May 2, 2022

Learning strategies: Shepparton East Primary School will introduce the Resilience Project during Education Week. Photo by Megan Fisher

Shepparton East Primary will be one of 20 schools in Australia to introduce the Resilience Project during Education Week.

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The Resilience Project delivers programs and provides evidence-based wellbeing strategies to build resilience in children.

Principal Les Walsh said the initiative would provide resources and training for staff to help in the further development of students.

“We can use it to help build and develop resilience within our students,” he said.

The initiative helps address youth mental health at schools and aims to teach positive strategies to help build resilience.

Caring for kids: The Resilience Project helps address youth mental health and wellbeing at school. Photo by Megan Fisher

As part of Education Week’s celebration of 150 years of public education, Shepparton East Primary will acknowledge its own history for getting close to turning 150 years old.

“We plan on taking the kids through what school was like to what school is like now,” Mr Walsh said

“What students wore, the activities and games that students may have played at schools, the classrooms, the resources that schools had — things like playground equipment.”

Mr Walsh said it was a chance for students to reflect on how their grandparents and great-grandparents learnt when they were at school.

“I think sometimes all students think that school’s pretty hard these days, and it's good to reflect back on and have a look at how challenging schooling was back then.”