Heathy Minds Compact: Growing
Growing builds on children’s early experiences by giving them simple language for psychological fitness skills and more opportunities to practise them intentionally.
Learning continues through stories, play, movement, modelling, conversation and repeated classroom experiences.
Children learn through five lessons:
1. Kind Hands, Kind Words Discovering how kindness appears in the things we say and do. 2. Listen With Care Practising giving someone attention and responding to what they have communicated. 3. Name That Feeling Developing emotional vocabulary and beginning to understand feelings as signals. 4. When I Shine Recognising strengths through what people actually do. 5. The Things That Make Me Shine Recognising, sharing and developing strengths in everyday life.
Developmental focus Experience it → Name it → Notice it again
Children begin to connect their experiences with simple psychological fitness language and recognise skills when they appear in everyday life.
Lessons
5 lessons in this module.
Healthy Minds Compact: Growing: Kind Hands. Kind Words
Discover how kindness shows up in the things we say and do.
Healthy Minds Compact: Growing: Listen with care
Practise giving someone our attention and showing that we have heard them.
Healthy Minds Compact: Growing: Name That Feeling
Notice the clues our feelings give us and learn simple words for what might be happening inside.
Healthy Minds Compact: Growing: When I Shine
Discover that strengths are things we show through what we do.
Healthy Minds Compact: Growing: Things That Make Me Shine
Notice, share and celebrate the strengths we use in everyday life.