Mindfulness
CGS Wellness Day Term 3 2023
Can you believe we are already halfway through our last term of the school year! What better way to celebrate than with a Wellness and Mental Health Day as a reward! A lot of our students took this day to reflect on their contributions to our society, our community and the lands we share and…
Read MoreMindful Movement with Mai
Big breathes in, and big breathes out. That’s what has been buzzing around our school the last few weeks. Isn’t it wonderful that some of our students have weekly mindfulness classes full of movement, breath work, and yoga! Our in-house Yoga Specialist teacher Mai has been guiding some of our students every week. Our older…
Read MoreTerm 2 Mental Health and Wellness Day
Selfcare is the best care. Taking a break from our regular scheduled programming is crucial in order to heal, destress and grow through any and all life experiences. Wellness is the act of practicing healthy habits on a daily basis to attain better physical and mental health outcomes, so that instead of just surviving,…
Read MoreGoldminds for You & Your Child
This week the CGS Parent Association organized our parents and students to partake in a Mindfulness Workshop hosted by Cynthia Arscott founder of Goldminds. Goldminds offers mindfulness classes and workshops in schools and at home, along with kid-friendly meditations through the Goldminds App. Our visit from Cynthia was geared towards our children learning and…
Read MoreWelcome Back!
Welcome Back! We are so excited to welcome all of our wonderful students back to school! After two weeks off, we are spending our time reconnecting and getting back into our routines. Our students were very enthusiastic to be back with their friends and share their stories from the holidays. We eased back into the…
Read MoreCGS Health and Wellness Day
In preparation for our Mental Health and Wellness Day, our JK students made colourful, cut out hearts. If a student sees a ‘friend in need’ they can share a colourful heart with them and be a ‘friend indeed’. The students put their own name on the back of their hearts so that their ‘friend in…
Read MoreCGS Classrooms
Early Start The Early Start students have been learning all about opposites this week. Their lessons have discussed not only the meaning of opposites and why they are important but also some very practical examples. Our wonderful Early Start teachers have taken the opportunity to overlap this with continuing their handwriting work by learning to…
Read MoreMental Health and Wellness Day
To kick off Mental Health and Wellness Day at CGS, Marie treated staff to fresh bagels and cream cheese. Yoga All our classes participated in yoga sessions with Mai. Before starting their yoga, Mai taught the students how to make their own eye pillow. Then they used their eye pillow to enhance their yoga practice…
Read MoreWelcome Back CGS!
Welcome back CGS! While this was not the return to classes, we were all hoping for, the CGS community has made the pivot to online learning with agility and grace. We posted two beautiful Welcome Back messages this week. One from Marie and the other from Jacob, our CGS Mayor. Both messages beautifully invite all…
Read MoreCGS Mental Health Awareness Day
CGS introduced Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day on Wednesday, November 17. We focused primarily on emotional health, and not academic health and growth for this day. We assembled resources and programming to promote positive well-being, raise awareness and teach our students how to seek help and advice strategies, and generally TALK about their mental health. Early Start Our Early Starts took time throughout the…
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