Richland Two holds social, emotional wellness learning day

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Richland Two took a step again and targeted on taking a breather at this time. They’d their first ever social emotional wellness studying day. 

Davontae Singleton, assistant principal at Dent Center Faculty, helped provoke the day’s occasions. 

“That is an initiative that the district is definitely pushing as a result of we perceive and acknowledge the worth in not solely lecturers that we convey to college students every single day, but additionally their emotional properly being,” Singleton stated.

Emily Babcock is a seventh grader. She stated the day was a great way to decelerate and join with pal. 

“With six courses a day, classes, assessments, quizzes, it offers us a break to simply talk and discuss to 1 one other about what’s been happening at dwelling or throughout college, their issues,” Babcock stated.

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College students had been concerned in actions like karaoke, communication trains, drumming, out of doors video games, and bingo.

One of many actions college students had been concerned with was sidewalk chalk. They obtained to attract one thing that they appreciated or an emotion that they had been feeling.

“A variety of them, they battle with that as a result of for our sixth graders for instance, their final regular college yr that they had was in third grade,” Singleton stated.

Academics at Dent Center Faculty stated they plan to host one other day like this subsequent yr primarily based on the success they noticed at this time.

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