The JKHA early childhood/lower school guidance team comes into classes each week for social skills lessons and to focus on interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and Social Emotional Learning (SEL). In the past year, they worked on different topics including confidence, different feelings and coping skills, and ways to learn when to incorporate them, personal space, kindness, helping others, using a social filter, test taking skills and how to handle stress with that.

If teachers tell the guidance department that a class needs some help with a specific skill they will cater the next lesson to discuss that particular topic.

This year, topics so far have included conflict resolution, body awareness and coping skills. JKHA looks forward to continuing to grow these and other useful skills with the students throughout the year.