COUNSELLING SESSIONS

In the present scenario, mental health of school students is of prime importance for their holistic growth and development. The school counsellor is an integral part of school ecosystem who provides help and guidance to all students for their overall well being. The counsellor works through early identification and timely intervention of students' behavioural, emotional and social problems. The counsellor caters to the psychological needs of students from Class I to XII.

The counselling is offered as preventive, remedial and responsive measure for range of issues that the students face on a daily basis. There are three basic domains where the counsellor helps students.

• Academic Development:
• Personal and social development:
• Career development:

Counselling is offered through individual sessions, group sessions, class sessions and interactive workshops. Some of the topics of workshops conducted regularly by the school counsellor are.

• Growing up Responsibly (Primary and Middle wing)
• Bullying – Building Resilience (All wings)
• Emotional Intelligence (Middle and Senior wing)
• Gender sensitivity (Middle and Senior wing)

Child Protection Committee

With the objective to build a safe learning environment for all students, a Child Protection Committee is constituted in the school. This committee works to spread awareness about children's safety, identifies students at risk and takes proactive steps to ensure safety for all along with reporting cases and taking suitable actions.

Following are the members of Child Protection Committee:

• 1. Ms. Agalya Venkatesh

  Principal
• 2. Ms. Archana Bapat

  Counsellor
• 3. Ms. Monika Wadhwa

  Senior Coordinator
• 4. Ms. Manika Girdhar

  Coordinator, Middle wing
• 5. Ms. Tanu Khatter

  Coordinator, Primary wing
• 6. Ms. Seema Chhabra

  PGT
• 7. Tatsam Ranjan

  Head Body
• 8. Shrusti Acharya

  Head Girl

Counselling Session: 2020-2021

Sometimes, adversities create opportunities to rethink and reshuffle our priorities. As the pandemic hit, students were highly affected by uncertainty. Their mental health and well being became most important and so the school counsellor’s interactions with them became more frequent.

Throughout the year, regular counselling sessions were conducted in all classes to help students grapple better with the unprecedented situation. The school counsellor listened to a wide array of students’ concerns associated with COVID-19 and the accompanying social isolation.

The classes with the counsellor provided a platform for students to voice up their problems, improve on their skills and even learn the new skills required for coping but above all, to relax and have some fun while learning. The approach for all counselling sessions was experiential, age-appropriate and solution focused. The themes of some of the counselling sessions conducted are as follows:

• How to improve concentration and attention span.
• Brain gym exercises.
• Healthy Habits for Happy You.
• How to stay motivated in these difficult times.
• Learning to manage time at home.
• Procrastination - the biggest roadblock to success.
• How to avoid arguments with family members.
• Resilience - the skill of year 2020.
• Know your mobile use & ways to reduce it.
• Career talk - Details of different career streams
• Stress - know your level and learn to manage with relaxation techniques.
• Happiness quotient.

Counselling sessions were also organized for parents of nursery and Kindergarten on how to survive and thrive this school year. Many parents and students availed counseling sessions individually for their individual needs.

Counselling session details 2019

Date	SESSION	PARTICIPANTS
10/04/19	I AM UNIQUE	CLASS III
15/04/19	SELF AWARENESS- THE FIRST STEP	CLASS VI
22/07/19	MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS	CLASS XII
22/07/19	ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING	CLASS IX
06/08/19	I AM UNIQUE & SO ARE YOU!	CLASS IV
13/08/19	MOBILE ADDICTION	CLASS XI
19/08/19	BEAT THE STRESS	CLASS XII
09/09/19	GROW RESPONSIBLY	CLASS IX
03/09/19	ANGER IS A CHOICE	CLASS III & IV
15/10/19	FOCUS ON FOCUS	CLASS XI
25/11/19	HOW TO BECOME CONFIDENT	CLASS 8
09/12/19	EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE	CLASS X
17/12/19	MIND YOUR WORDS	CLASS VII
24/12/19	SELF CONTROL	CLASS 8
FOR TEACHERS
10/01/19	LEARNING ON THE FRINGE	TEACHERS OF MIDDLE AND PRIMARY WING

Counselling session details 2018