01 May 2023
On Monday for our Staff Development Day MHS staff (teachers, SASS and SLSOs) attended the RIOT (Resilience in Our Teens) workshop in Bega.
The RIOT Whole-School program takes a wrap-around approach to help teenagers learn and develop skills to manage anxiety and build resilience by repeatedly engaging in 'coaching conversations' with significant adults in their lives.
The program is consistent with the Australian Student Wellbeing Framework (ASWF) and includes:
- Providing training and resources for our staff to ensure they always have access to the latest research and resilience practices available to them.
- Helping MHS to connect with our communities to ensure there is a whole-of-school cultural change in addressing anxiety, improving school attendance and improving student engagement and performance.
- The RIOT program assists educators to identify and to manage student's low/mild levels of anxiety.
We are looking forward to implementing what we have learnt in the school environment and will be teaching it explicitly to the students. We will also have an information night for parents and carers in the near future where we can share some important resources along the way.
