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Helping children tolerate discomfort

Few right-minded people want children or young people to experience hardships or difficulty. However, growing up generally means that children will experience their fair share of hardships, frustrations and challenges which lead to uncomfortable feelings.

Exercising their discomfort muscles

Tolerating discomfort is an important resilience skill. It refers to an ability to sit with an uncomfortable or emotionally painful feeling such as disappointment, apprehension, nervousness or fear. These emotions can be brought about as a result of not being picked for a team; getting lower than expected marks for an assignment; or going into new, unfamiliar situation such as school camp. These are the sorts of everyday situations that can make some children feel uncomfortable. It’s helpful to think of discomfort as a ‘muscle’ that gets stronger with training. Each time a child or teen successfully tolerates discomfort they’re reinforcing their ability to do so and cementing the knowledge that they can overcome emotional challenges.

Opportunities to practise tolerating discomfort

Opportunities for practice are plentiful and are found in common situations such as when a child or teen is: feeling hungry; wanting something they can't have; having to end screen time; contributing to household chores when they don't feel like it; missing out on a job interview; or not receiving a party invitation.

It’s not toughing it out

Tolerating discomfort doesn’t mean toughing out an unbearable situation. It’s teaching your anxious child to notice how they’re feeling, naming their emotions, and practising acceptance of difficult feelings as they occur. This is done in the knowledge that what they’re experiencing is temporary and that they’re lovingly supported by a warm and comforting adult. Couple tolerating discomfort with social rewards (such as words of praise or shared fun activity) for coping behaviours and you’re helping to build their personal resilience.

Article taken from Parenting Ideas.

SQUAD  Athletics Training Tuesday  6/8, 13/8, 20/8, 27/8, 3/9

Mandarin Lessons (optional) Monday afternoons from 3-4pm

Grandparent's Day  Friday August 16 @ 9.00am

Year 6 Assembly Monday August 19 & @ 8.30am

Book Week Parade Thursday August 22 @ 8.30am

Father's Day Breakfast  Tuesday August 27 @ 7.30am

Father's Day Stall - Wednesday August 28

South Harbour Athletics (SQUAD only) Saturday August 24

IPSHA Athletics (SQUAD only) Monday August 26

QUAD Athletics (SQUAD only) Friday September 6

School Concert: Peter Pan  Tuesday September 3rd 

Kindergarten Assembly Monday September 9

Year 5 & 6 Country Tour Tuesday September 10 - Friday September 13

School Photos Tuesday September 17

P&F Annual Fundraiser Saturday September 21

Last day Term 3 Friday September 27

First Day Term 4 Tuesday October 15

Speech Morning  Friday  December 6

1st  McKeown

2nd  Nimmo

3rd  Storey

The grading system for REACH is quite different from ICAS and is explained below.

There are 5 categories from Participation, Good Effort, Commendable, Outstanding through to Exemplary.

Exemplary is the top 1% of students

Outstanding is the next 10% of students

Commendable is the next 25% of students

Good Effort is the next 10% of students

Participation for all remaining students.

Each boy has an individual TAP-ID and PIN so parents can access online reports for their sons. These details were handed out with the certificates last Friday.

In the Science REACH Assessments this year, Coogee Prep received 2 Exemplary Certificates for Orlando Noble in year 3 and Archie Coulton in year 4

We also received 20 Outstanding, 17 Commendable, 8 Good Effort and 34 Participation Certificates.

The following boys received certificates and all other boys received a Participation Certificate.

Year 3

Exemplary – Orlando Noble

Outstanding – Joshua Capaan, Justin Lo Nero, Rugby Mangan, Sam Wolfe, Lawson Worrall and Ethan Zorbas

Commendable- Dylan Crewe, Christopher Go, Rowan Munro, Zavier Prichard, Joshua Scala, Dylan Silva

Good Effort - Freddie Grindrod, Harry Mozley, Sam Read

Year 4

Exemplary – Archie Coulton

Outstanding – Luke Brown, Akash Dutta, Tyler Fielding, Harry Middleton, Anthony Panos, Dylan Sperring and Owen Storie

Commendable – Charlie Appleton, Gabriel Joseph, Joshua Morris, Sam Radburn

Good Effort - Christian Harris, Hudson James, Henry McAusland,

Year 5

Outstanding - Ben Capaan, Harry Howells, Lu Jurgens, Billy Lagos

Commendable - Oliver Goold, Brooklyn Lagos, Zac Sperring

Year 6

Outstanding- Maximo Di Blasio, Leo Jreige, Ayrton Palmer

Commendable – Harry Crewe, Otto Freiheit, Freddie Fullerton, Aidan Zorbas

Good Effort- Saul Teen, Fabian Wrigg

Kindergarten     Sebastian Siu

Year 1                  Jakob Saad

Year 2                  Noah Nunn

Stephen Chen in Kindergarten receives his Bronze Award and is all smiles despite his painful face plant over the weekend!

Well done Stephen!

Archer Wong in Year 4  participated in the World Choral Festival and performed with the Sydney Children’s Choir at the concert house at Sydney Opera House and also at the Sydney Conservatorium during the term break.  

Joshua Prazan in Year 1 has been recycling for over a year now and recycled over 1000 bottles. He has donated all of the proceeds ($100) to the School and we will be buying some playground equipment with it at his request.  Well done Joshua - you have done well for the planet and the School and we are proud of you!

Our annual Founder’s Day will be held on Friday 2nd August. We will have a church service at 9am followed by a screening of the new ‘Lion King’ movie at the Ritz in Randwick. The boys are able to take their recess with them to the movie. On our return to school, the P & F are organizing a BBQ lunch for the boys.

A permission note has been sent out. Click here to sign it

The P&F are looking for helpers with the BBQ - if you can help please contact Lizzie Mangan 0413 999 717 or Emma Garrett Brown 0415 473 450

Riley Thurman Year 2 Age 8

Thank you to RIley  who has presented us with two wonderful books for his birthday!

Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
Elementals - Scorch Dragons

Book week will take place in week 5, with the parade on Thursday, 22nd August at 8.30am.

The theme this year is 'Reading is my Secret Power'.

All students will participate in the parade. We encourage and welcome parents  to attend. A reminder that costumes are to be organised at home and students may wear their costumes for the day. We look forward to a fun morning celebrating books!

Never in the history of the Art Cupboard has it been so well organised. A big thanks to Angela Richards (Harry Year 2) and Vanessa Miers (George in Year 1) for the hours they put into doing this last week. We have had a full audit and will do a massive re-order of supplies to keep our creative  output on going!

Championship A - ALL GAMES FINISHED

1. Marshall Jones

2. Brooklyn Lagos

3. Billy Lagos

4. Vincent Larcinese

Championship B ALL GAMES FINISHED

1. Harry Crewe

2. Arran Storie

3. Ben Capaan

4. Lachlan Doble

Intermediate C

1. Luc Jurgens

2. Akash Dutta

3. Archie Coulton

4. Oliver Goold

Freddie Sharpe

Intermediate D

1. Vlad Law

3. Henry Merrion

4.Jack Brandtman

Reserves  Cobey Owen and Jeremy Trueman-Farrell

Rookies E

1. Dylan Crewe

2. Joshua Capaan

3. Sam Wolfe

4. Isaac Makim

Reserve Luke Brown

Rookies F

1. Archer Wong

2. Ned O’Halloran

3. Harrison Wood

4. Charlie Appleton

 Reserve Luke Brown

Junior Rookies G

1. George Tsaccounis

2. Justin Lo Nero

3. Harry Mozley

4. Freddie Grindrod

Junior Rookies H

1. Rugby Mangan

2. Aidan Quinlan

3. Zavier Prichard

4. Rowan Munro

This campaign began last year, where a young boy named Jack Berne, started the initiative. In 2018 schools all throughout Australia raised over 1.5 million dollars for such a great cause.

Boys are asked to bring in a $5 note or more to support this important campaign. I am looking forward to seeing all the boys and teachers in their farmer outfits. 

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