We know that adolescents have high rates of stress and often, not enough time to practice effective stress reduction or wellness skills. Our goal for the week was to offer students and faculty the opportunity to engage in relaxation and healthy lifestyle activities in an effort to reduce stress, improve health, and increase awareness of wellness practices and habits. Relaxing nature videos were shown on the lobby television all week long and teachers were given a menu of brief relaxing classroom activities to do with their students at the start of classes. In addition, an Advisory schedule ran on Wednesday and Thursday of Wellness Week and each advisory group was given the opportunity to choose a different stress reduction activity in which to participate each day. Choices included: yoga, mindful meditation, art activities, outdoor games, walking outside, a nutrition activity and music.
We were very grateful that the weather cooperated and initial feedback from both students and staff has been very positive! We are looking forward to planning more wellness activities in the future, with a focus on helping our school community build stress reduction skills on an ongoing basis. Please see the IMovie created by Ms. Hefez which highlights some of our Wellness Week activities!
Be well!
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