Highway to Success and Happiness

Corpus Christi has once again launched into the social/emotional development skill building program HIGHWAY HEROES.  

 Over the coming weeks, your child will be involved in a unit of social and emotional learning that uses a teaching metaphor of everyone being on a journey travelling along the Highway of Life. They will learn that one of the first destinations on the Highway is their current one – Primary School - with many more to follow, and that along the Highway, everyone will experience many events (‘Highway Happenings’) – some fabulous, others horrible, many bland and every so often, exhilarating. It’s rarely dull!

Think about the Highway of your Life, with its many twists and turns; the times you
needed to slow down for repairs, or perhaps came to a complete stop altogether and
needed help to get going again. These are common Happenings on the Highway of
Life, and so everyone needs HIGHWAY TOOLS to deal with them - and that means
becoming a ‘HIGHWAY HERO!’

What are Highway Happenings?
Primary School is one of the first independent destinations, and whilst there, every
student’s job is to acquire knowledge - academic, social and emotional – the latter two being the focus of Highway Heroes. Your child will be learning that everyone
experiences BUMPS and HAZARDS on the Highway, and therefore, learning the skills to deal with these Highway Happenings is vital. Highway Heroes will help your child to learn these skills, and as their parent, you will also be included with newsletter information and ideas for home practise. That’s the pathway to becoming a HIGHWAY HERO - and every child deserves the opportunity to be on that pathway.

Highway Hero Skills

To be a HIGHWAY HERO means a child has positive self and social management skills and can use positive thought patterning - called ‘Supa Thinking’ – to make sensible, rational choices – about HAZARDS, BUMPS – and all sorts of Highway Happenings. Let’s consider the following situations.

If a child regularly forgets to take their books and lunch to school, misses homework
deadlines and has a desk that’s chaotic, there’s a very good chance that the child will be underachieving. Learning good planning and organisational skills – HIGHWAY TOOLS - are what is required to help that child, because the HIGHWAY BUMP of
disorganisation is disrupting their journey, and perhaps will also determine their
destination.

These are the symbols that you will be seeing over the coming weeks as your child learns
about HIGHWAY BUMPS, HAZARDS and TOOLS, so that they too can become a
HIGHWAY HERO.

It’s terrific that you are all on the journey, so buckle up!