Our philosophy or approach

 

At Positive Living Skills, we believe that every child has the capacity to reach his or her unique potential and that every child in today’s world must learn proactive and practical ways to look after their own mental wellbeing, starting in Early Childhood, so that when they are ready to transition into High School they have developed some procedural memory for how to calm themselves when feeling stressed, and they have tools to apply to help them to self-direct their thoughts, feelings and behaviours toward a positive life experience.

 

The teacher-led Positive Living Skills programs are made up of evidence based concepts, skills and activities that will help children build a lifelong skillset to self-direct their own thinking processes, emotions, actions and outcomes.

 

Ultimately, our purpose is to positively and significantly impact the alarming and growing statistics of anxiety, depression and suicide that our societies are experiencing today, and we know parents and families want to see their children grow to be healthy and, happy and to find meaning and direction in their lives.

 

To find out more about us and our approach, visit the About Us page.

 

The Program:  

 

There are 6 units in the PLS Early Childhood Wellbeing Program and the first two stages of the Primary School Wellbeing Program (Early Stage One and Stage One or Years F-2) and then the program expands to 12 units in Stages Two and Three or Years 3-6.

 

Within the Early Childhood Wellbeing Program, each of the 6 units contain 8 Learning Experiences for a total of 48 Lessons, and within the Primary School Wellbeng Program, there is a total of 216 stand alone Lessons.  

 

Early Childhood Program

& Early Primary Program

(Early Stage 1 and Stage 1)

Foundation to Year 2

Primary Program

(Stage 2 and 3)

Years 3-6

Unit 1   Highlights

Unit 1    Highlights

Unit 2   Feelings

Unit 2    Feelings

Unit 3   Focus

Unit 3    Focus

Unit 4   Relaxation

Unit 4    Relaxation

Unit 5  Cooperation

Unit 5    Cooperation

Unit 6  Self-Esteem

Unit 6    Self-Esteem

 

The Early Childhood and Early Primary Program lessons are activity based, engaging experiences that focus on bringing awareness and understanding for self-management.

 

Unit 7    Appreciation

Unit 8    Communication

Unit 9    Choice

Unit 10  Solutions

Unit 11  Leadership

Unit 12  Potential

                                                                                               

How can you help?

 

If you are interested in learning more about our philosophies and concepts and how they can be applied in the home environment, sign up for our regular PLS article HERE. LINKS TO OPT IN

 

If you would like to see this program implemented in the Early Learning Centre or Primary School in your community, then click HERE. LINKS TO OPT IN

 

OPT IN: 1. YES!  I would like to sign up to receive your regular PLS Articles (something about how they are generally once a month and we won’t spam you or give your details away)

 

OPT IN: 2.YES! I would like to sign up to receive your regular PLS Articles AND please send me something I can forward to my ECEC centre

 

OPT IN: 3. YES! I would like to sign up to receive your regular PLS Articles AND please send me something I can forward to my Primary School

 

Our notes: What is the newsletter? More information about the program concepts and our beliefs and philosophies and how you can support the concepts at home or apply them in your own life, and offers connection with parenting experts, or child psychologists, parenting experts Guest blogs and contributions

 

The family link is no longer a part of our open website and becomes a membership only site for families linked to subscribed Schools. Inside is sample of our PLS program resources and links with support services and other information.

Where does this site sit? How do members join? Is it a password for the School?