After hours supervision | Book Recommendation: Raising Anxiety

After hours supervision

It is important for parents to know that while we have an after-hours supervisor and security guard on site after the school day, students who remain behind on campus are not under the immediate supervision of staff unless they are participating in a scheduled activity or are in the Library.

If your daughter is on campus after hours, please be aware that she may be socialising, be on her phone or laptop, or moving between the campus and Strathfield Plaza. It is important that parents ensure that they are aware of their daughter’s movements after school and discourage her from hanging around on site without a planned cocurricular activity or Homework Help participation, as much as possible.

Book Recommendation: Raising Anxiety

Many parents will remember that at the start of 2024, Meriden hosted psychologists Dr Judith Locke and Dr Danielle Einstein on the topic of managing anxiety. They have recently released their new book Raising Anxiety, a short description of which is below:

What if our good intentions are contributing to the rise in children’s anxiety?

Parents, teachers and schools invest more care and effort than ever before to ensure children reach their potential. Yet today young people seem more anxious and less capable of navigating the milestones of childhood and young adult life.

Is the kind of care and support we provide inadvertently increasing children’s anxiety?

Could the special accommodations we give to some children make their anxiety worse?

In this book, Einstein and Locke discuss how a perfect storm of today’s popular approaches to caring for children, altered beliefs about how best to support them, and easier access to technology is making children more anxious and less prepared to face typical tasks and experience the normal joys and satisfactions of life.