Lower School Learning Services
Student Support at CDNIS
From the category archives:
On May 3rd we hosted a workshop with a new target audience, household domestic helpers. The enthusiastic group of 70 helpers walked away with strategies and tools for effective communication with the children they help to raise in the household. This is a new direction of support that CDNIS is offering to our parent [...]
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This year one focus of the guidance program has been on empowering girls to have a more and positive self image while improving their relational skills. The program is offered to girls in grade 6 & 7, and focuses on providing a safe, educational and fun environment for girls to explore and share their feelings [...]
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In May the Lower School Guidance Team is offering two workshops free for the CDNIS community.
Helping the Helper: Practical strategies for enhancing the helper’s contribution to the household. Offered to domestic helpers. Please RSVP -robertgrantham@cdnis.edu.hk
May 3, noon to 2 in the LLAC lobby. (a light lunch will be provided)
ADHA- de-mystifying the diagnosis with Dr. Jadis [...]
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Part of our mandate as Guidance Councilors is to teach personal safety to students. This month the focus has been with G4 covering issues of ;
safe people
trusting your feelings / saying NO
how to get away
appropriate touch (private body parts)
A difficult topic but necessary. The emphasis has been on empowering children to trust their feelings and [...]
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Attitude is everywhere at CDNIS – just ask the Attitude Sleuths who are on the hunt for Attitudes in Action. For the last month Rob has joined with the Prep, G. 1 and G. 2 teams to reinforce the concept so clearly stated by Max Threkeld in Class 1A when he said “If we choose [...]
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The first of a 4-week session on parenting begin this week. Among the topics of this session were
1. parenting styles
2. building mutual respect
3. allowing choices
While at times being a more authoritative or permissive parent is a reasonable approach to the situation in general practicing the skills of being an Active Parent will help your child [...]
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Hope you enjoy this recent posting on the Michelle Garcia Winner Site about the 4 steps of communication. For more information please visit her site at
http://www.socialthinking.com/what-is-social-thinking/michelles-blog
Four Steps of Communication by Michelle Garcia Winner
The four steps of communication help to define how the communicative act is heavily anchored in a synergistic process [...]
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In anticipation of Bill Helin’s visit (the artist in residence who will be carving two totems next month) grade 5 learned about the Native Canadian Tsimshian tradition of the life crests. Many years ago the Chiefs and Elders of the tribe made a decision to give each hunter an animal identity. Through reflection the hunter [...]
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This month the guidance team (aka Rob and Lolita) have been highlight the ATTITUDES in the class lessons. Through storytelling, drama and song the focus has been to help students understand how to demonstrate these attitudes in their daily lives as well as encouraging them to notice when their friends & classmates are showing the [...]
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Anxiety and stress are a normal part of every child’s life. As parents and educators we can help students learn to cope and manage the stresses they face, so they develop functional habits and can deal with life’s challenges effectively. This podcast is a summary of topics covered at a parent workshop in December 2011 [...]
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