Social and Emotional Learning

At our school, social and emotional learning is embedded throughout the day in every classroom. Teachers intentionally model and teach skills like self-awareness, empathy, respectful communication, and emotional regulation. These skills are woven into lessons, class routines, and everyday interactions, helping students build positive relationships, manage emotions, and make responsible decisions—essential foundations for both learning and wellbeing.

Zones of Regulation
The Zones of Regulation is a framework that helps students develop self-awareness and emotional control by categorising their feelings and states of alertness into four colour-coded zones:

• Blue Zone – tired, sad, bored

• Green Zone – calm, focused, ready to learn

• Yellow Zone – frustrated, worried, silly

• Red Zone – angry, out of control, overwhelmed

Students learn to recognise which zone they are in and use strategies to regulate their emotions and return to a state where they can engage and learn effectively.

Why We Use It:

• Builds emotional vocabulary and self-awareness

• Helps students manage their behaviour and responses

• Encourages empathy by understanding how others may feel

• Supports a calm, focused classroom environment

• Provides consistent language for emotional regulation across the school

Zones of Regulation empowers students to take control of their emotions and supports social and emotional learning in a structured, student-friendly way.

Values

Values play an important part of the curriculum and culture at Heathridge Primary School. We have six overacrhcing values that students strive to demonstrate. These are Fair, Learners, Thoughtful, Trustworthy, Responsible and Strong (FLTTRS). Students can earn tokens for showcasing these values throughout the day. 

Every Monday afternoon, the whole school meets at an assembly where the children recite our School Creed, participate in role play activities based around our values, continue to learn Auslan and participate in mindfulness activities. One of our FLTTRS is highlighted everyweek to build on students understanding.