​URStrong – Our Friendship Focus
URStrong – Our Friendship Focus
The URStrong program is a cornerstone of the Kinder – Year 6 EMPOWER
program and focuses on children teaching others how to treat them.
Friendships mean the world to our students and we use the URStrong
program as it supports children to establish and maintain healthy
relationships, manage conflict with kindness, and increase their overall
resilience.
There is common language that is utilised in the program, and you may hear
your child use these words at home. Children are explicitly taught the skills of friendship, and
these are based on the four rules of friendship.
This quick glossary will help you understand
the language your child may be using.
- Friendship Fire: Any situation between you and a friend that results in negative feelings.
- Mean-on-Purpose: When someone is intentionally unkind to someone else.
- Quick Comeback: A very short word or phrase that is used when someone is Mean-on Purpose. Quick Comebacks are designed to let the other person know that you heard/saw
what they did and you’re not okay with it.
- Friend-o-Meter: A visual tool that assesses the health of friendships, ranging from the
healthy zone to the unhealthy zone.
- Friendship Ninja: A Friendship Ninja is someone who surrounds themselves with friends in
the healthy zone of the Friend-o-Meter. A Friendship Ninja is kind and friendly to everyone.
We look forward to sharing our URStrong work with you
throughout the year, and we encourage you to use this
common language with your children at home.
Check
out the URStrong page online, it’s currently free for
parents to sign up to the program so you can learn all
about it too!
Mrs Allison Lowe - Co-Coordinator of Pastoral Care K-6
A Catholic School in the Salesian Tradition
