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1) Kids are kids and they will enjoy learning more when it is fun! With a program that has been deliberately and thoughtfully curated, the children had fun while learning about emotional first aid.

2) The success of the event was made possible with everyone's effort and hard work. We may have differing opinions but as long as we stay focused on our cause, our team has shown that we can still come together to create success!

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My significant takeaway from this GESL project is that it is important for a team to share a common goal from the start. Once a common goal is set, weekly meetings and the actual event itself would run smoothly since all group members are aware and know what the end goal is.

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One of the greatest takeaways would be being a part of equipping the younger ones with skills to provide emotional first aid for themselves and for the others. Children learn best when they’re having fun in a safe environment and are given  the opportunity to share with the rest regarding what they know how they should react in certain situations.

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Working on providing students with the understanding of emotional first aid is my greatest takeaway as I could see the relevance of this to my teaching career in the future. Making it fun through our activities was definitely a good choice in ensuring that they retain what they have learnt.

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I learnt it's important to create a welcoming environment for learning to occur, especially with children. The icebreakers and introductions helped the kids and us open up to one another, which made the kids more willing to engage with us and participate in the session. As it has been said, "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

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My greatest takeaway was the experience of working with children that did not know us prior to our workshop. I have learnt that it is vital to create a positive and welcoming atmosphere, to provide opportunities to break the ice and encourage participation, and to be clear on what we would like the children to learn at the end of the day.

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Being a team player in a team in crucial in all project work. Through GESL I realised that there are still so much for me to learn and grow. In any group project, we need to first understand our colleagues well enough so that we can tap on their strengths.

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One of my greatest takeaways from this project is being able to provide the children with some understanding of emotional first aid. Seeing how this group of children benefitted from the short session made all the hard work over the last few months worthwhile.

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The greatest take away was the observable learning that I saw in the student participants. They were honest in their feelings, at the start, when questions about how they felt were asked, “I don’t know” was the go-to answer but at the end, they could actually come up with a few emotions to describe how they actually felt. This, is enough of a takeaway for me and the children.

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One of my takeaways from this project was being able to be part of the process of making a resource that is focused on students. Most of us have only used resources like these in FTGP lessons. Going through the considerations and rationales of each of the components of the booklet allowed us to have a better appreciation of resources like these. With peer-peer support being advocated for, I believe this experience would be beneficial for us when we take it into our future schools.

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It was a great experience creating a meaningful resource book to provide emotional first aid to children. This is something often overlooked or lacking in our school syllabus. Knowing that the children enjoyed the session and found the booklet useful is very heartening.

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These takeaways might come in handy when I facilitate SL projects among my students in the future.

1. Tap on the strengths of the team members, rather than lamenting on what they cannot do well. Assign their roles with their strengths in mind.

2. Being intentional in working harmoniously together helps to conserve emotional bandwidth and allows the group to finish the project smoothly.

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It was heartening to see the children develop greater self and social awareness through our workshop. I found this project meaningful as we could support them in learning how to describe their own emotions, to reflecting and having an appreciation for themselves and what they have in their lives.

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this is an interesting project with a unique angle that looks into providing some form of emotional first aid to children who are not as adept as mature adults in regulating emotions. I think joy and empathy are two most important emotions we and the children need to master and exercise. Their childhood days will then be blissful and carefree.

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It was an enriching experience working with students who were super welcoming even though we met them for the first time. This project proved that the children from a young age are able to articulate their feelings once they are given the avenue for it and are scaffolded on how to express their feelings.