In the last Newsletter, we shared information about Second Step, our whole school approach to Social Emotional Learning. The Zones of Regulation are explicitly taught in the P-2 junior school, and the concepts embedded reinforced throughout the upper school.

Zones of Regulation is an approach used to support the development of self-regulation in children. All the different ways children feel and the states of alertness they experience are categorized into four coloured zones. We use Zones of Regulation to teach children how to:

•   Identify their feelings
•   Be aware of what zone they are in
•   Start to use tools to help be in the appropriate zone for the moment