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Your mental health is a priority. is an happiness essential. is a self-care necessity.
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To fully understand the importance of being healthy, you will now have the opportunity to learn about physical and mental health and the impact both have on your overall wellbeing.
One way that you can look after your physical health is by eating a balanced diet, getting sufficient sleep and doing some exercise each day. Good diet, sleep and exercise have countless physical and mental benefits.
• Helps to build and maintain healthy bones, muscles and joints
• Helps to control weight, build lean muscle and reduce fat
• Prevents and reduces high blood pressure
• Improves your memory and lengthens your attention span
• Improves your decision-making, planning and multi-tasking skills
• Increases your production of new nerve, blood and brain cells
Ensure you have a healthy diet.
Scan this bar code to access the food pyramid, which shows how often you should eat different food groups.
Ensure you get a good night’s sleep. Avoid being on a screen before you go to bed, and it’s best not to bring your phone into your bedroom.
Try to get the daily recommended physical activity of 30 minutes of exercise. Consider including a column for physical activity in your study timetable so you can actively make it part of your daily routine.
Unfortunately, negative things happen to everyone in life; however, some people seem to bounce back quicker than others. This is referred to as resilience - your ability to bounce back after setbacks.
One useful way of understanding how to develop resilience is to use the acronym BOUNCE
Bad things and times happen, but things do get better.
Others are there to help you, but you need to let them know.
Unhelpful thoughts don’t make things better.
Nobody is perfect.
Concentrate on the good things in your life, it’s not all bad.
Everybody has setbacks or struggles. You are not on your own here.
Here are five useful ways that you can build your own personal resilience. In the space provided, identify one way you could incorporate each one into your own life!
Express Yourself
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Nourish Yourself (Diet, sleep, exercise)
Sunny Side Up
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Identify your strengths
Relax
your learning and develop important skills that will help you to grow as a person in this ever-changing world, including things to help your mental and physical health.
This section of your school journal contains key information about the Junior Cycle. We want you to be in control of all your learning in Junior Cycle, so we have developed an important list of keywords that you will need to be familiar with as you journey through your Junior Cycle.
The world that we live in is constantly changing. The Junior Cycle recognises that the world will continue to change and wants to equip you with the necessary skills to meet these changes as you grow older. While there are many important learning skills, the Junior Cycle has identified eight key skills that will be central to your learning from first to third year.
The eight Key Skills of Junior Cycle are illustrated on the diagram on the right. You will investigate these throughout your Junior Cycle.
Assessment is a way of gathering evidence of all the knowledge and skills you have developed.
Assessment is a very important feature of Junior Cycle because it gives you a clear picture of all the work you have completed from first to third year. It also allows you to reflect on the skills that you have learned and improvements you have made on your journey.
There are two main types of assessment at Junior Cycle:
This is a continuous assessment and happens in most classes in the form of quizzes, homework, etc.
This happens at the end of third year in an exam marked by the State Examinations Commission.
OPEN YOUR MIND, ARMS, AND HEART TO NEW THINGS AND PEOPLE, BECAUSE WE ARE UNITED IN OUR DIFFERENCES.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Pursue the unexplored.
Embrace the unknown.
TOLISTEN YOUR HEART.
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The struggle for human rights is an uphill battle. But every bit of the way is worth fighting for. - Ban Ki-moon
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Remember / Cuimhnigh: The rights of every person are diminished when the rights of one person are threatened. - John F. Kennedy
There are three main elements to managing your learning, these being:
1. Setting learning goals and planning your learning
2. Monitoring your progress
3. Reflecting on your learning and progress with a view to learning from past experience.
Learning how to manage yourself and your learning is a key skill for Junior Cycle and it will prepare you for success at Senior Cycle.
Below are links to tools/templates which will help you to manage your learning.
The templates are divided into the three elements of selfmanagement for learning:
1. Setting learning goals and managing your learning
2. Monitoring your progress
3. Reflecting on your learning and progress.
When you select a QR Code for a particular template, it takes you to the online template and you can then print that resource and use it manage your learning.
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“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Cultural Awareness involves recognising and respecting the differences between cultures and understanding the impact culture can have on communication, behaviour, and social norms. It helps to promote tolerance and understanding between people of different cultures, and it can also help young people to develop their own cultural identity.
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