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When children come under pressure: Primary school helps deal with stress and competitiveness

2021-11-24T11:35:20.962Z


Children are under pressure today too. Stress stress and competitive pressure. A Haarer elementary school helps students deal with this.


Children are under pressure today too.

Stress stress and competitive pressure.

A Haarer elementary school helps students deal with this.

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- what exactly is a "good healthy school"?

The Haarer elementary school St. Konrad is one - now also highly official.

The school family received this award from the state program of the same name by the Ministry of Culture.

An apple instead of chocolate cookies in the break box, water instead of lemonade in the drinking bottle.

Or exercise between the lessons and enough sports lessons on offer.

These are certainly the first associations one has with a good, healthy school.

But the state program sees a lot more potential for good and healthy things that schools can have for children and young people in Bavaria.

It's about addiction prevention and self-confidence, about reducing stress and cohesion, of course also about exercise and nutrition.

The Konradschule has such creative, playful and child-friendly offers.

And therefore applied to the program.

"The children compare themselves and their grades."

Sports events and nutrition campaigns have been known to the children at primary school for years. However, according to a press release from the municipality, the Konradstrasse is also concerned with the mental and emotional health of the little ones - and two of these projects have now been highly praised in this award. “We applied with two programs because they are really well received by our children,” explains the youth social worker Hanna Acker.

Since 2019, the Haar primary school has been offering fourth graders a stress prevention program under the motto “Stay relaxed”.

The response is huge - because the pressure on the classes that will soon be moving to secondary schools is enormous.

And that is not only due to the expectations of the parents, but there is pressure and competition among each other.

“The children compare themselves and their grades.

In the end, the most important thing is by no means whether they then go to the school that suits them, rather it has to be the one where you can achieve the highest qualification, ”explains Acker.

It takes a lot of self-confidence and support to still be able to make an individual decision under this social pressure.

Hundreds of students take part in the courses

The “stay relaxed” course strengthens the back of the children, makes it clear to them where their stress comes from and how they can deal with it. Often it is already a first big step when the students notice that they are by no means alone with their feelings. According to the press release, 100 schoolchildren already accepted the offer in the first round - with real success, as the teachers were able to impressively observe: At the end of the project, the children were able to fall back on coping strategies and patterns of action and deal with acute stress, such as exam situations, much better.

The second project is also about mental health: "Resi - Become resilient with Resi" is aimed at the first two grades, because in elementary school one is aware of the large amount of space school already occupies in the lives of the very youngest. They spend a lot of time outside of their parents' home with all-day classes or afternoon care. That means: Even larger parts of upbringing, the teaching of values ​​and strengthening of the children are transferred to school and care. The Konradschule takes this seriously: the timetable allows time to strengthen the children, to make them aware of how to deal with conflicts and crises and to instill self-confidence in them.

A good 230 children take part in “Resi” every year.

"The project is constantly being revised and expanded and it is hard to imagine everyday life without it," says headmistress Andrea Zran.

"The feedback is consistently positive and we only get positive feedback from parents." You move with the times, because the challenges are actually getting bigger and bigger for the little ones: The direct and fast communication via class chats, for example, harbors enormous potential for conflict, the tone of voice not infrequently get rougher due to the sometimes generously consumed media - and the pandemic has also fueled stress and fears.

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You can find more news from Haar and the district of Munich here.

Source: merkur

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