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How Good is Our School Framework

HGIOS Part 2

Accessed at:

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/documents/hgiours-part2.pdf

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Wellbeing Wheel and Web

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How Good is Our School

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It is how you react to each of them that is important.

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Self-regulation: The ability to achieve the preferred state of alertness for the given situation. This includes regulating one’s body’s needs as well as one’s emotions.

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The Zones: A concept used to help students learn how to self-regulate. The Zones of Regulation creates a system to categorize how the body feels and emotions into four coloured Zones with which the students can easily identify.

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  • Blue Zone: Used to describe a low state of alertness. The Blue Zone is used to describe when one feels sad, tired, sick, or bored.
  • Green Zone: Used to describe the ideal state of alertness. A person may be described as calm, happy, focused, or content when he or she is in the Green Zone. The student feels a strong sense of internal control when in the Green Zone.
  • Yellow Zone: Used to describe a heightened state of alertness. A person may be experiencing stress, frustration, anxiety, excitement, silliness, or fear when in the Yellow Zone. The student’s energy is elevated yet he or she feels some sense of internal control in the Yellow Zone.
  • Red Zone: Used to describe an extremely heightened state of alertness. A person may be experiencing anger, rage, explosive behavior, panic, extreme grief, terror, or elation when in the Red Zone and feels a loss of control.

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Zones of Regulation �– Children understanding emotions

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Inside out meets the Zones of Regulation

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Tools to help children regulate:

Calming Techniques –

  • 6 Sides of Breathing
  • Lazy 8 Breathing
  • Calming Sequence
  • Count to Ten
  • Learning to take a deep breathing

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Thinking Strategies –

  • Big vs. Little Problem
  • Inner Coach vs. Inner Critic
  • Superflex vs. Rock Brain Thinking

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Thinking Strategies

  • What is the size of the problem? Big, medium or little (link to big deal, little deal)
  • Stop, Opt and Go: A concept used to aid students in controlling impulses and problem solving better solutions. This phrase is paired with a torch visual to provide additional cues for students.
  • Inner critic: used to describe negative, self-defeating thoughts.
  • Inner coach: Used to describe positive thoughts
  • Superflex thinking: A flexible thinking pattern in which a person is able to consider different points of view of ways to do something
  • Rock Brain Thinking: A rigid thinking pattern in which a person gets stuck on an idea and has difficulty considering other options or ways to do something.

Stop

Opt

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What can we do to help a child with big emotions?

Strategies to support big emotions:

Co-regulation with a safe adult –

  • Emotion Coaching/Restorative Language – visual supports, less language, safe space, outside break, quiet time with a friend (game/story/work) – use timer digital/sand

How do I feel? –

Mindfulness –

  • Breathing exercises, visualisations, bubble bounce, body scan e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLoK5rOl8Qk

Sensory –

  • Gross motor activities (running, bouncing, sand pit), fine motor (jigsaw, beads, drawing),
  • Sensory tools/timers/objects
  • Specific sensory apps from self service portal
  • Calming activities – instrumental music, aquarium, beach soundscape, audio book,, worry monster
  • Energising activities – go noodle/just dance

Stories –

  • Colour Monster, The Red Beast, The Big Bag of Worries, Big deal, little deal. Have you filled a bucket today?