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Parents, please scroll to the right for more information on our Wellbeing Week (11th-15th Oct 2021)

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Information for Parents for Wellbeing Week 11th - 15th Oct 2021

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Information for Parents for Wellbeing Week 11th - 15th Oct 2021

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In GCC this week we are promoting mental health awareness and wellbeing. We have activities planned for staff, students and parents. An outline of the week can be seen in the document above.

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GCC Focus on Wellbeing Week Timetable Oct 2021

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The link to the nomination form can be found by clicking on the blank space above.

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3 rd Years - Punch Your Feelings Out Sessions:

·         9am - Sarsfield

·         10am - Esker

·         11.15am - Shakelton

- GCC PE Room (teachers need to accompany their class).

5 th Years & LCA 1 – Cycle Against Suicide Sessions:

during Careers/VPG Classes with AW & EC

Wellness Wall with 1 st Years:

Thunberg (Ms Ward)

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Wellbeing Week Outline:

Tutor’s share outline for week with students during tutorial – PowerPoint attached to email.

World Mental Health Day

Short PowerPoint to be shown in first class @ 8.40am on World Mental Health Day. PowerPoint is attached in email.

Whole school meditation:

9.10am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9YKY7fdwyg

Wellness Wall with 1 st Years:

Attenborough, Noble & Goodall – Jack & Katie will do this with these class groups today.

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Wellbeing Week Oct 2021 Outline PP for Tutors

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Whole School Walk in Your Shoes/Non Uniform Day:

2euro per student for charity (St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services). Tutor’s to collect 2euro per student during tutorial. Envelops & gloves will be provided. Walk begins at 9.05am as follows:

9.05am – 3rd Years

9.10am – 5th Years

9.15am – 2nd Years

9.20am – 1st Years

End of Week Celebration:

certificates and prizes awarded during last class today.

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Whole School Quiz:

Over intercom & with slides in GCC building, through PowerPoint in KCC building – last class. Teachers to put students into teams of 4. Certificates for the winning team members in each room – teacher to email Audrey/Katie with winner’s names once quiz is complete. Audrey will email quiz & instructions to all teachers in advance. Quiz will start at 13.55pm, allowing time to sort teams and get paper ready.

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1 st Years Movie Afternoon:

Inside Out – from 12.45pm in base rooms (KCC 1, 2, 3 & 4) – Small Popcorn and Jellies provided – students to bring own drink as normal.

2 nd Years – Positivitree:

Each 2nd Year student will design a leaf for the positivitree during the following classes:

·         Hume @ 9am with KK

·         Robinson @ 11.15m with KK

McAleese @ 12.45pm with AW

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Parents are invited to take 45mins to complete this module in Self-Care provided by Jigsaw, the national centre for youth mental health. Click the link above to take this course. It can only be completed on a desktop/laptop. You will be asked to register for an account first which is free.
For more information on Jigsaw please visit their website www.jigsaw.ie

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This 45 minute course is aimed at parents and guardians of young people. It provides skills to help parents/guardians understand and look after their own wellbeing while acting as that One Good Adult for a young person.

Participants will:

Have a greater understanding of what self-care is

Have a greater understanding of the importance of looking after their own wellbeing in their role as a parent

Be more aware of their own self-care needs

Be able to develop their own self-care plan.

Login to our parent portal

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Self-care course for parents | Elearning for parents | Jigsaw.ie

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This 45 minute course is aimed at parents and guardians of young people. It provides skills to help parents/guardians understand and look after their own wellbeing while acting as that One Good Adult for a young person.

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Wellbeing Mandalas - Inspired by Artist Andy Goldsworthy. 

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Wellbeing Mandalas - Inspired by Artist Andy Goldsworthy. 

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http://gapminder.org/dollar-street

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Get some fresh air in your lungs & create an organic mandala on your way, Don't forget to take a photo of your creation!

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'More/less' 2021 lists inspired by Julie Rothman, New York Times illustrator. 

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'More/less' 2021 lists inspired by Julie Rothman, New York Times illustrator. 

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Cooking is a great way to relieve stress and make a tasty meal you’re proud of.

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GCC’s First Year students supporting walk-in your shoes with #mindyourselfie for wellbeing week ☺️

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GCC’s First Year students supporting walk-in your shoes with #mindyourselfie for wellbeing week ☺️

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A heartwarming story from the mountains.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2591634014294680&id=204563096335129

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A nice relaxing afternoon!

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Mr Kelly getting some practice in during the Whole School Wellbeing afternoon.

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Afternoon activities can be uploaded to this column.  

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Every Kid needs a Champion and at Griffeen Community College, Students are surrounded by Champions!

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Every Kid needs a Champion and at Griffeen Community College, Students are surrounded by Champions!

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https://youtu.be/SFnMTHhKd

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Drop Everything And Read is a great opportunity for you to be present in the moment. We encourage the whole family to put aside everything and delve into a different world for a half an hour; whether it's a new adventure or an old beloved volume, take time to visit it.

Share the book love by uploading the cover picture and recommendation to our 'What is GCC reading?' wall.

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1. Download Strava
2. Join the club and upload your runs!

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https://cybersafeireland.org/parents/

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- Empowering healthy online behaviour in teenagers.

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#bekindonline series: empowering healthy online behaviour in teenagers

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#bekindonline series: empowering healthy online behaviour in teenagers tickets

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#BeKindOnline Series: Empowering Healthy Online Behaviour in Teenagers

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Eventbrite - Department of Justice presents #BeKindOnline Series: Empowering Healthy Online Behaviour in Teenagers - Tuesday, 9 February 2021 - Find event and ticket information.

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To watch the video recording of the sessions please follow the links below:
#BeKindOnline Webinar
Empowering Healthy Online Behaviour in Teenagers - https://youtu.be/P7Ao3X4P-8E

Guest Speaker: Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton, Cyberpsychology Researcher, member of the Cyberpsychology Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton and lectures in Cyberpsychology and Psychology in IADT, Dun Laoghaire (Tuesday, 9th February 2021)
#BeKindOnline Webinar: Empowering Healthy Online Behaviour in Younger Children -https://youtu.be/rwuuO9FTsi0 #BeKindOnline Webinar: Empowering students to build digital resilience and manage their online wellbeing -https://youtu.be/HR0wmMLfcdw
Guest Speaker: Mark Smyth, Consultant Clinical Psychologist(Wednesday, 10th February 2021)

Webwise Slides: Empowering students to build digital resilience and manage their online wellbeing

Guest Speakers: Jane McGarrigle and Tracy Hogan, Webwise (Thursday, 11th February 2021)

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Online Wellbeing Discussion

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Course from Microsoft on headspace and mindfulness. 

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Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid portrait of how to be prepared for the worst in space (and life).

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What I learned from going blind in space | Chris Hadfield

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Morning GRATITUDE Meditation Guided | Best 12 Minutes

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Positive Energy Guided Meditation for Raising Your Vibrational Frequency

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15 Minute Meditation for Positive Energy (Energy Clearing)

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Learning to knit is a lot of fun, and it's not as difficult as you might think. This guide to the basics and beyond has everything you need to get started, whether you've never picked up needles before or just need a refresher.

There are several basic skills involved in knitting. These are the stitches and methods that you will use in every knitting project. In the case of the knit and purl stitches, they form the foundation for more advanced stitches that you'll learn in the future. These are the basics you will need to start:

You will also need a few basic knitting tools to get started. Don't go all out at first, just pick up a pair of needles (U.S. size 6 to 8 is perfect for beginners), a ball of yarn (medium weight is easiest for learning), and a crochet hook or yarn needle. The rest will come later, so save your money until you get into it and have a better idea of what you need (or want).

Once you have the basics down, it's time to pick your first project. It's a good idea to start with something small and flat that doesn't require shaping.

Scarves are a great place to begin because they're so long that it forces you to really get to know the basic stitches. Also, dishcloths are fun and quick projects that simply require you to knit a flat square. They're both also useful projects and keeping your finished knitwear in your line of sight is a great motivation to keep knitting.

Patterns are usually labeled with the knitting skill level to help you choose a good beginner project.

Once you've reached the end of your knitting, all is not quite finished. Depending on the project, you will need to do one or several of the following before your work is done:

Many knitters enjoy the process of knitting more than these finishing tasks. It's true that they're not a lot of fun, but you cannot enjoy what you've created without them. Learn to love (or at least enjoy) these skills and avoid a stash of unfinished projects.

Once you're comfortable with the basics and have successfully finished a project or two, there are several other skills to try. Here are a few that are well-suited to beginners:

Try not to take on too much at once, but don't be afraid to challenge yourself. Remember, knitting is little more than making a series of loops across a row of stitches. Most patterns are very good about explaining complex or unique techniques and you can always search for the answers.

Everyone has problems with their knitting from time to time, but most of the time it is easy to fix knitting mistakes. The worst thing that can ever happen when you do something wrong is that you have to tear the work out and start over (knitters have a sense of humor and call this frogging). Some mistakes, like a dropped stitch, can be fixed in less dramatic ways. These are a couple of common problems:

You will also want to learn about proper stitch orientation so you can put the stitches back on your needle correctly if (and when) they fall off.

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Everything You Need to Know About Learning How to Knit

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Learning to knit is a lot of fun, and it's not as difficult as you might think. This guide to the basics and beyond has everything you need to get started, whether you've never picked up needles before or just need a refresher. There are several basic skills involved in knitting.

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Staying Motivated During Lockdown - Pat Divilly

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Staying Motivated During Lockdown - Pat Divilly

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‎The Pat Divilly Podcast: EP 132- Staying Motivated During Lockdown on Apple Podcasts

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‎Show The Pat Divilly Podcast, Ep EP 132- Staying Motivated During Lockdown - 7 May 2020

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Mindfulness practice and meditation

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Where is my Mind? is a podcast about how we can navigate the manic, always-on, and head-melting world we live in. Our lives are changing so quickly, its hard to keep up. Although a lot of this change is for the better, our culture is more fast paced, more polarised, more narcissistic, and more disconnected than ever, and that's having a massive effect on our stress levels. We're overwhelmed, we're too busy, we're out of balance.

In this podcast, Niall 'Bressie' Breslin talks about what impact this society has on us, and how we can deal with it by introducing the basics of mindfulness practice and meditation... and you'll learn how to get off autopilot, how to navigate constant distraction, how to be a more skilful stress-head, how to focus on the parts of our world that are truly wonderful.... and even how to be deadly at Jenga.

Produced by Niall Breslin and Ciara O'Connor Walsh.

Where is my Mind? is a podcast about how we can navigate the manic, always-on, and head-melting world we live in. Our lives are changing so quickly, its hard to keep up. Although a lot of this change is for the better, our culture is more fast paced, more polarised, more narcissistic, and more disconnected than ever, and that's having a massive effect on our stress levels. We're overwhelmed, we're too busy, we're out of balance.

In this podcast, Niall 'Bressie' Breslin talks about what impact this society has on us, and how we can deal with it by introducing the basics of mindfulness practice and meditation... and you'll learn how to get off autopilot, how to navigate constant distraction, how to be a more skilful stress-head, how to focus on the parts of our world that are truly wonderful.... and even how to be deadly at Jenga.

Produced by Niall Breslin and Ciara O'Connor Walsh.

Calming, interesting, worth really listening to.

I came across this podcast after stumbling on Bressies Live Instagram meditations during covid-19. Ive been practising mindfulness for 5 years myself (no expert) after being introduced to it on an American psychic/meditation radio station who also publish books, after listening to so many people around the world on that station and how spiritual their way of teaching was (too much for me), I have to say This podcast from Bressie is my favourite and a lot more refreshing for me, for a lot of reason but also he doesn't try bring in anything to do with religion, I'm so glad I found it.

Maybe it's the comforting Irish accent, but I know it's also more about the important content and message, his explanation, his take on it all that I enjoy. As an Irish person growing up in a time and age similar to Bressie it's very very easy to relate to.
I'm only half way in on it as I write this, but so far so good it's very calming in these current times.

Cheers Bressie for these, you definitely will have touched, and changed a lot of lives for the better with these.

Great present for the mind!

Wonderful podcast from Niall Breslin (Bressie). He does so much for raising awareness around mental health, the practise of mindfulness and looking after yourself. This 6 part series and it's accompanying meditations are a treat and a fantastic starting point on your journey. Highly recommended!!!

Excellent

Excellent podcast, calming, interesting and informative. Can't wait for series 2.

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We can thank the cuisine of Tex-Mex for the classic fajita. Originally, the term referred to a grilled strip of meat served in a tortilla. These days you can find steak, chicken, shrimp, or even vegetarian fajitas. Minimal prep and minimal cook time means these can be on your dining room table FAST. Top them off with sour cream, pico de gallo, and guac and for an extra special treat go ahead and make your own flour tortillas! If you like a little extra spice on your fajitas go ahead and add some chili powder, cayenne, or paprika!

Tried these yet? Let us know how it went in the comments below! You'll find this and 90+ other recipes in our new cookbook: Insanely Easy Chicken Dinners.

Editor's Note: The introduction to this recipe was updated on July, 24, 2020 to include more information about the dish.

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We can thank the cuisine of Tex-Mex for the classic fajita. Originally, the term referred to a grilled strip of meat served in a tortilla. These days you can find steak, chicken, shrimp, or even vegetarian fajitas. Minimal prep and minimal cook time means these can be on your dining room table FAST.

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A basic soup recipe that can be adapted to whatever needs using up from the fridge, from BBC Good Food

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Chicken Bacon Pasta Bake - a reader and family favourite!

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Healthy eating guidelines

Your body needs lots of different nutrients to stay healthy. That means eating a variety of foods from each of the main food groups.

The Food Pyramid is designed to make healthy eating easier. It shows the different food groups and how much of each we need to have a healthy diet. Eating the right amount from each food group is called eating a "balanced" diet.

Eating well is important for all of us. In the short-term, it can help us to feel good, look our best and stay at a healthy weight. In the long-term, a healthy, balanced diet can reduce our risk of heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and some cancers.

For adults, teenagers and children aged 5 and over | For children aged 1 to 4

New healthy eating guidelines for children aged 1 to 4

Children need lots of different nutrients to stay healthy. The amounts of food a young child eats changes every day and at every meal depending on their needs. Taller, older children and children who are more active will eat more.

It is important to use your child's appetite to help you decide how much food to offer them. The Children's Food Pyramid is designed to help you decide what foods and how much to offer them.

This pyramid organises food into five main shelves - a shelf for each food group.

What's on each shelf of the pyramid?

Cereals, breads, potatoes, pasta and rice

Vegetables, salad and fruit

Milk, yogurt and cheese

Meat, poultry, fish, eggs, beans and nuts

Fats, spreads and oils

Food high in fat, sugar and salt

There are seven key messages that will help us all building good eating habits for children.

1. Healthy eating habits last a lifetime - Parents should eat a variety of healthy foods at home to lead by example and instill healthy eating habits from an early age. Happy Healthy Mealtimes

2. Small servings for small tummies - Children aged 1 - 4 years old should be given 3 small meals and 2 to 3 healthy snacks a day. Some examples of portion sizes | Healthy snack ideas

3. Milk is essential - Offer your child 3 servings of milk, yogurt or cheese every day.

4. Limit treat foods - To avoid childhood obesity, you should only allow your child tiny amounts of foods high in fat, sugar or salt just once a week.

5. Forget fizzy drinks - Fizzy drinks and some cordials can damage your child's teeth. Offer them water or milk instead.

6. Stick to a routine - Start every day with a healthy breakfast and stick to regular times for meals and snacks.

7. Top up vitamin D in winter - Young children should be given 5 micrograms of vitamin D every day from Halloween (31 October) to St Patrick's Day (17 March). More information about Vitamin D

Get the booklet: A Visual Guide to The Children's Food Pyramid

Daily meal plans for children aged 1 to 4.

Meal Plan Age 1 | Meal Plan Age 2 | Meal Plan Age 3 | Vegetarian Meal Plan Age 3 | Meal Plan age 4

The Food Pyramid for adults, teenagers and children aged 5 and over

The Food Pyramid organises food into five main shelves - a shelf for each food group. The most important shelf is on the bottom and the least important on the top.
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What's on each shelf of the food pyramid

Vegetables, salad and fruit - Eat plenty of these, up to seven servings a day.

Starchy foods - Have wholemeal cereals and breads, potatoes, pasta or rice with each meal. Wholegrain is best.

Dairy - Have some milk, yoghurt and cheese. Choose reduced-fat or low-fat.

Meat and alternatives - Have some meat, poultry, fish, eggs, beans and nuts. Choose lean options and have fish at least twice a week - one being oily.

Fats, spreads and oils - Have small amounts and choose unsaturated or reduced-fat options.

We call these 'treats' - foods that have high amounts of salt, fat and sugar. This is the least important shelf. Have a treat once or twice a week.

You don't have to get the right balance at every meal. It's fine if you balance it out over the whole day or even a week.

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Your diet can either help or hinder your health. A healthy diet means eating a variety of foods from the major food groups and eating less salt, sugar and fat. Find out about how to balance the food groups for a healthy diet.

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SpunOut.ie - Ireland's Youth Information Website

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SpunOut.ie is Ireland's youth information website created by young people, for young people. We're working to empower our readers with the information needed to live an active, happy, & healthy life.

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Link for you to join class on Monday at 1 it’s free.

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Course from Microsoft on headspace and mindfulness. 

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Headspace has collaborated with partners and educators to inform, create, and curate an introduction to help integrate mindfulness into the classroom. This course provides suggestions on how to integrate mindfulness into the classroom with accessible and digestible videos.

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Why not try the toilet roll challenge and see how many keepie uppies you can do?

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Toilet roll keepie-uppies: sports stars' coronavirus lockdown challenge

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Try downloading the Couch to 5k app to challenge yourself!

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Why not try a guided meditation to help you unwind? 

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Why not try a guided meditation to help you unwind? 

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The Honest Guys - Meditations - Relaxation

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Guided Meditation - Blissful Deep Relaxation

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Follow the Science

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Join the GCC Running Club today! It is so simple:

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Join the GCC Running Club today! It is so simple:

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1. Create a Strava account.
2. Join the club and upload your weekly runs.

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Well worth a family read

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Workout Challenge

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A playlist for the yoga journey.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2MOA64qzlP4tGomZDaElNE?si=rfbAOcR9Rka6cfKK1OxjPQ

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Try the 30 day challenge as a step to enlightenment. Namaste!🙏

https://youtu.be/--jhKVdZOJM

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Monday - Friday 5 days/ways to wellbeing 

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Monday - Friday 5 days/ways to wellbeing 

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See bigger posters below as examples of each day broken down

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Record student experiences of online learning and Wellbeing of the GCC community

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Record student experiences of online learning and Wellbeing of the GCC community

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Students record run/walk for GCC community to walk the circumference of Dublin/Leinster

Students create Art work showing the importance of communication Twitter #Finding Charlies Voice and create a poscard of images to represent this lockdown

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Link into our Podcast Padlet for a variety of podcast sources, or continue with the links below.

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Link into our Podcast Padlet for a variety of podcast sources, or continue with the links below.

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Young children learn about socialising through school, play dates etc. Now that process is being disrupted by the pandemic. They are going weeks without seeing other children which for them is a missed opportunity to interact and learn. Adults have already developed the social skillsets they need to fall back on during these times, but children haven't. They base a lot of their interaction on physical activities; they play together and communicate through toys.

Reintroducing children to a school/social environment will be a long process: "Pacing your parenting is about introducing something into your child's life when they're ready for it. [...] You're trying to motivate them to be under a degree of pressure so that they're learning, but not at a point where you overwhelm them" But how can parents pace the reintegration of their children in the right way? Dr. Noctor thinks upping the pace over time lessens the risk of them becoming overwhelmed.

The pandemic has pushed us to use technology in different, more constructive ways

Dr. Noctor gives a practical example of how people can use an hour of screen time in two different ways. A person watching a guitar tutorial on YouTube for an hour is a different experience to someone scrolling on Instagram for an hour.

The restrictions and lack of direct interactions have pushed people to use technology to enhance their relationships. They are now taking control of how they use technology rather than the other way around. So many times, people have reverted to their phones to avoid direct social interactions, whereas now they are using technology to access each other. They are using technology as a point to connect rather than a way to escape.

The parenting triangle and the pressure that comes with homeschooling

"I think one of the major issues with parenting in contemporary parenting is the expectation, in terms of what is expected of us as parents." Dr Noctor says.

The hyper-competitive culture we live in is at the base of this problem. This culture which has evolved from the excessive use of social media pushes people to evaluate themselves and compare themselves with others daily.

Working from home while taking care of children and homeschooling them, has put a different kind of pressure on parents. Working with children at home is essentially the same as bringing your children to work with you and trying to do your job. It's an extra task added to a parent's working hours. "We are not working from home, we are parenting from work".

Dr Colman explains the parenting triangle as the three essential elements to parenting from which you can only choose two. "So it is your sanity, a clean house, and happy children. And what it does is it makes you prioritise what's important to you. Most people will choose to sacrifice the clean house and have their sanity and happy children. But what this means is that if we overstretch, and we want to get it perfect, we're only building ourselves up to feel like failures, because perfection isn't achievable. There's no such thing as a perfect parent."

The myth of multitasking and the formula for happiness

Dr. Noctor sees multitasking as a myth. It's more like a digital concept, one that allows us to keep seven windows open on our computer and work on six tasks at once. The issue is there's no evidence to suggest we can do six things to the same quality that we can do one. "We live in an economy where our time and attention are limited, and we have to spread them out amongst what we have. Time is not a renewable resource."

There is only so much time in a day, and we have to choose how to allocate it. There is a lovely formula for happiness that says expectation minus reality equals happiness. And we have to focus our energy on what we can change; we can't change reality, but we can improve our expectations.

We have to accept that we are in an unprecedented time of crisis and we can no longer run things at the high pace we used to before. Dr. Colman thinks the pandemic has given us an excellent opportunity to reevaluate what is important to us. People now have the time to rethink their value system, to realise the importance of reaching out to others, of being able to shake hands, to hug someone. "From my point of view, there may be something we can get out of this and for me, if it's about reevaluating our value system, realigning our priorities, well, that's a hugely useful thing for us to use the time to do."

The most important relationship we form in life is the relationship we have with ourselves

"Over the last number of weeks, we've had a lot of time to get to know ourselves. And we might be finding out things that we are not too proud of about ourselves and maybe things that we didn't want to see." Dr. Noctor says. This is how resilience is built, by knowing our strengths and limitations and designing our expectations accordingly. Because going back to the formula of happiness, it's crucial to be able to adjust our expectations when reality changes as fast as it did during this pandemic.

"Nobody's going to perfectly manage pandemic, whether it's in work or at home or in any relevance of our lives. Failure is not about falling down, it's about refusing to get back up." So by picking ourselves back up we're learning from it and doing the best that we can.

You can watch the full video of our conversation with Dr. Colman Noctor here.

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Parenting From Work During a Pandemic - The Work Well Podcast

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The Work Well Podcast focuses on the development of healthy work environments, that is why today we want to take a closer look at the implications this pandemic has brought on our work and family lives.

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Take a look at today's advice for parents on supporting young people with daily routines at home, developed by the Department's National Educational Psychological Service.

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You can walk at the same pace throughout or, if you want, you can alter the pace that you walk as indicated below. Remember that any plan is only a guide, so please do go at your own pace and do as much or as little as you can or want, celebrating your progress along the way.

Print out the plan below, and tick off each week as you go.
Week one
15 minutes of walking every other day at an easy pace (this doesn't have to be done in one go, take breaks as you need to)
Week two
15 minutes of walking every other day at an easy pace (remember, this doesn't have to be done in one go)
Try to add in a 5 minute or 500m continuous walk (you could consider doing 1 minute of faster paced walking and 1 minute of easy walking) once a week
Week three
15 minutes of walking every other day at a steady pace (this doesn't have to be done in one go)
Also try to do a 10-12 minute or approx 1k continuous walk (also try alternating 2 minutes of faster pace walking and 1 minute of easy walking) once a week
Week four
15 minutes of walking every other day at a steady pace (this doesn't have to be done in one go)
If you can, add in a 15 minute or approx 1.5k / 1 mile continuous walk (alternating 3 minutes of faster pace walking and 2 minutes easy) once a week.

You're half way there!
Week five
15 minutes of walking every other day (this doesn't have to be done in one go)
Also try for a 30 minute or approx 2.5k continuous walk (maybe alternating 5 minutes of faster paced walking and 2 minute steady) once a week
Week six
15 minutes of walking every other day (this doesn't have to be done in one go)
Add a 40 minute or approx 3k continuous walk (alternating 7 minutes of faster paced walking and 3 minutes easy) once a week.
Week seven
17 minutes of walking every day (this doesn't have to be done in one go)
Plus try to do a 50 minute or approx 4k walk (alternating 10 minutes faster paced walking and 5 minutes easy) once a week
Week eight
60 minute or 5k walk. You did it!

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Support for Parents in a Changing World

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Being a parent or carer can be challenging - nobody has all the answers. Children today are growing up in a world that is inundated with media messages telling them how to look. They are spending increasing amounts of time online and it can be difficult as a parent to know where to start in promoting positive body image and self-esteem.

This resource is intended to broach all questions and concerns you may have in relation to body image. It includes research on body image, practical tips on promoting positive body image and self-esteem in children and young people and advice on talking to young people about the media and the images they see.

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PS:1. Information For Parents - BodyWhys

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Being a parent or carer can be challenging - nobody has all the answers. Children today are growing up in a world that is inundated with media messages telling them how to look. They are spending increasing amounts of time online and it can be difficult as a parent to know where to start in promoting positive body image and self-esteem.