Counsellor's Corner

Remembrance Day

You are invited to join the Fultonvale students and staff on Friday, November 8, in the school gymnasium for our Remembrance Day Ceremony. Please be seated by 10:30 am. The service will begin with a procession of our students, staff, and honoured guests.

The local annual Remembrance Day ceremony will be held at Millennium Place on Monday, November 11. It is free to attend or you can watch the live stream. Attendees should be seated by 10:30 am. Overflow seating is also available.

This year's local event will commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Airforce.

Building Connection

Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week is November 18-22. We will continue to promote awareness and understanding of bullying and its impacts. This year, we will focus on Building Connections at our school. Classes will participate in lessons on bullying, showing kindness, being an upstander, the importance of empathy, and the power of connection.

To help build connection and community, our school will be having a Handshake Challenge. Students in each grade can pair up and create their own original handshake. Names will be entered for a chance to win Oilers tickets that were donated to our school. We hope this “challenge” creates a community of laughter and fun in our school through connection.

This is one of my favourite videos to share with students. It's called the Kindness Boomerang. It shows how small acts of kindness can build meaningful connections through positive, shared moments with others. This "boomerang effect" suggests that when you put kindness out into the world, it has a way of returning to you, often in unexpected ways. Kindness is powerful. This will always be a focus for us here at FTV.

Parent Education & Resources

AHS Parent & Caregiver Education

Alberta Health Services offers free mental health resources and virtual mental health education sessions for parents and caregivers who support children and youth. There are also sessions for adults looking to support their own wellness. The November series is on Parenting Teens in the 21st Century and Building Executive Functioning Skills.

Parenting Teens in the 21st Century:

Part 1: Teen Development & Challenges
Part 2: Parent Responsiveness

Building Executive Functioning Skills:

Part 1: The Impact of Executive Functioning
Part 2: Supporting Executive Functioning Development

Caregiver Series Registration

Mental Health Literacy Videos

Resource Library

Internet & Technology

With students being online more and more, it’s important that parents/guardians are informed. Saffron has put together some great resources.

A Parent's Guide to Technology

Parental Controls

Family & Community Services

Family Resource Network

The local Family Resource Network is a partnership between Strathcona County's Family and Community Services, Boys and Girls Club, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. The FRN offers free programs and services for families with children and youth ages 0-18 years, including:

Programs to support healthy child development
Reliable parenting information
Connection to other local resources

Family Resource Network

Counselling & Solutions Navigation

Family and Community Services offers Counselling and Solutions Navigation support. FCS offers walk-in, virtual, and over the phone counselling using a pay what you can afford model. You will be connected to the next available counsellor. The Solutions Navigation team will listen and help you figure out solutions to challenges in your life. Navigation is free to access.

To access these services, call 780-464-4044 or visit them on the second floor of the Community Centre at 401 Festival Lane. Use the following links for more information.

Counselling

Solutions Navigation

Co-Regulation Strategies

We are continuing to focus on bringing co-regulation strategies from our Reset Room into our classrooms. Building these patterned, repetitive, and rhythmic activities into our day helps to steady the bottom part of our brain, allowing our cortex to be activated, which makes learning easier! Here are two new co-regulation strategies this month.