Indigenous Planner

TECHNICAL ISSUE?

IF THE AURORA CLASS DOES NOT COMMENCE WITHIN 10 MINUTES OF THE SCHEDULED LESSON START TIME OR IF YOU LOSE CONNECTION DURING CLASS AND CANNOT RECONNECT

STEP 1

Have you tagged your teacher in Teams? Yes. No response?

Go to your ACC first to check if it is a school-based issue.

STEP 4

Check your @education email every 5 minutes for updates.

STEP 2

Can’t find your ACC?

Go to your school’s front office to check if it is a school-based issue –ask for a tech support person at your school.

STEP 3

Not a school-based technical issue?

Contact us: support@aurora.nsw.edu.au OR 1300 610 733

STEP 5

Follow instructions in email. Still having issues? Contact us again: support@aurora.nsw.edu.au OR 1300 610 733

STEP 6

Once the issue has resolved make contact with your class teacher via Teams or email to check in.

SUPPORTING YOUR WELLBEING

QLife

Phone: 1800 184 527 Age Group: All ages

About: QLife provides anonymous and free LGBTI peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings, or relationships.

Link: https://qlife.org.au/

Chat Online: Webchat 3PM - MIDNIGHT 7 days.

Suicide Call Back Service

Phone: 1300 659 467 Age Group: All ages

About: A 24/7 nationwide online counselling to people who are affected by suicide, experiencing thoughts of self-harm or suicide.

Link: https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/phone-and-onlinecounselling/suicide-call-back-service-online-counselling/

Chat Online & Video: 24/7

Mental Health Line

Phone: 1800 011 511 Age Group: All ages

About: A mental health professional will answer your call about mental health concerns for you or someone you are concerned about including children, teens, adults and older people.

Link: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/Mental-HealthLine.aspx

Phone: 24/7

Looking for more information?

Black Dog Institute

About: Primary areas of mental health research and treatment include depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, workplace mental health, adolescents and young people, suicide prevention, e-mental health, and positive psychology and wellbeing.

Link: https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/

Reach Out

About: Our mission is to deliver innovative e-mental health services that enable young people to take control of their mental health and wellbeing.

Link: https://au.reachout.com/

WellMob

About: A website of culturally relevant social and emotional wellbeing resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Link: https://wellmob.org.au/

SUPPORTING YOUR WELLBEING

Looking for an app?

Calm Harm

About: Calm Harm provides tasks that help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. You can add your own tasks too and it’s completely private and password protected.

Cost: Free Available: App Store & Google Play

Clear Fear

About: The fear of threat, or anxiety, is like a strong gust of wind. It drags you in and makes you want to fight it or run away. Instead, face your fear with the free Clear Fear app and learn to reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions.

Cost: Free Available: App Store & Google Play

iBobbly

About: A social and emotional wellbeing self-help app for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians aged 15 years and older.

https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/digital-tools-apps/ ibobbly/

Cost: Free Available: App Store & Google Play

Niggle

About: A self-help toolkit for all things related to mental, social and emotional wellbeing.

Cost: Free Available: App Store & Google Play

ReachOut Worry Time

About: ReachOut Worry Time interrupts repetitive thinking by setting aside your worries until later, so you don’t get caught up in them and can get on with your day. This means you can deal with worries once a day, rather than carrying them around with you 24/7

Cost: Free Available: App Store

ReachOut Breathe

About: ReachOut Breathe helps you reduce the physical symptoms of stress and anxiety by slowing down your breathing and your heart rate with your iPhone

Cost: Free Available: App Store

Smiling Mind

About: Smiling Mind is a meditation app for young people. It has been developed by a team of psychologists and uses mindfulness to boost calmness, contentment and clarity. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to help manage stress, resilience, anxiety, depression and improve general health and wellbeing.

Cost: Free Available: App Store & Google Play

750 STUDENTS IN 220 SCHOOLS.

ABORIGINAL NATIONS.

Acknowledgement: https://storyplace.org.au/aboriginal-nations-1/

Term 1 –

ACCOMPLISHMENT + OPTIMISM

GOALS TO GROW

WHY: by understanding that using your strengths to write down your goals is a proven way to overcome challenges, you will be much more likely to achieve them.

HOW: each term in the goal setting pages, write down a goal to build your learning and thinking skills, a goal to grow relationships with others, and a goal of your choice. Then write the strengths that you will use to overcome challenges, what you need to learn and who can help you.

Acknowledgement: Sheldon & Adams Miller

DO: how can writing down your goals significantly improve your chances of achieving your goals?

What is a challenge that you could have in working towards your goals, and who can help you to overcome it?

WHAT WENT WELL THIS WEEK?

MIND GAMES

Catastrophising: is when you are taken out of your comfort zone by an issue or a challenge, and you think that the absolute worst things will happen. When is a time that you have thought this way?

Acknowledgement: De Bono

MEANING + PURPOSE

LISTEN

TO YOUR MIND

WHY: by using your strengths to listen to and do what your mind tells you is the right thing for you to do, you will live a good life that matters. This is called ethical living.

HOW: be honest with and rely on the person who you see in the mirror, be prepared to listen to your mind to say no to your friends when you need to, give of yourself to be kind, and smile to spread positivity wherever you go.

Acknowledgement: Kabat Zinn & Sinek

DO: who is someone you know who lives in an ethical way and how do they show it?

When has your mind told you to say no to your friends about doing something risky, and you did?

WHAT WENT WELL THIS WEEK?

RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS

Choose a set of three emotions, which rise in intensity from weak to strong. For example, calm, worried, frantic. Role play what body language you would show for each of the emotions?

Emotions and body language

1.

WHAT IS A TEAM I WAS IN?

2. ............................................................................. 3.

Acknowledgement: 7-8 RRRR, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne

Term 3 – Week 5

HEALTH + STRENGTHS

KIND TO YOU

WHY: by treating yourself with kindness, you will be calmer and have greater problem solving abilities to welcome tackling more difficult tasks.

HOW: the most important relationship that you have is the one with yourself. To grow it use your strengths to practise kind self-talk, use JOMO to have frequent breaks from social media, do each of the Big Five really well, give to add meaning to your life, smile, have fun and laugh and savour your proudest achievements often.

Acknowledgement: Neff & McGehee

DO: what is something that you love doing that you should do more often to be kind to yourself?

Who is someone that you enjoy being with who brings out the best in you?

WHAT WENT WELL THIS WEEK?

MINDFUL MAZE

WHAT WAS I GRATEFUL FOR?

TERM FOUR GOALS AND SUBJECT REFLECTIONS

This Lesson: WHY: for you to reflect on how far you moved towards achieving each of your three goals and progress in each of your subjects. HOW: in the left hand column, reflect on what you learned for each of your goals that you are grateful for and how far you reached towards achieving each of them. In the right hand column, reflect on how well you went in each of your main subjects.

REFLECTIONS ON MY TERM FOUR LEARNING GOALS

GOAL ONE: What positive things did I learn for this ‘learning and thinking skills’ goal?

....................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................... .......................................................................................................

REFLECTIONS ON MY SUBJECTS

Subject: My effort and outcome rating: 1 2 3 4 5

Something to improve?

Subject: .................................................................

My effort and outcome rating: 1 2 3 4 5

Mark where you felt you reached towards achieving this goal: 1 2 3 4 5

GOAL TWO: What positive things did I learn for this ‘building my respectful relationships’ goal?

Something to improve? ................................................................................

Subject: My effort and outcome rating: 1 2 3 4 5

Something to improve?

Subject: .................................................................

My effort and outcome rating: 1 2 3 4 5

Mark where you felt you reached towards achieving this goal: 1 2 3 4 5

GOAL THREE: What positive things did I learn for this ‘what I want to achieve’ goal?

Something to improve?

Subject: My effort and outcome rating: 1 2 3 4 5

Something to improve? ................................................................................

Subject: My effort and outcome rating: 1 2 3 4 5

Mark where you felt you reached towards achieving this goal: 1 2 3 4 5

Something to improve?