St. Joseph Catholic School is excited to announce the launch of a new school-wide program of social-emotional learning, called Friendzy. This program will be implemented by our school counselors with the support of faculty, staff and parents!
The current global pandemic has highlighted the need for strong social skills and emotional management. Now more than ever our students need to be equipped to navigate the uncertainty in their lives with a deeper sense of faith and community. Social skills such as self-awareness, responsible decision-making, self-management and relationship-building are some of the tools that make this possible.
This new program, which begins in October, complements our current social-emotional learning curriculum which explores the ways in which our Catholic faith, faith-filled actions, and prayer help our students to develop strong social skills and deeper relationships with each other and God.
As part of this program, each SJS student will receive a student workbook that will be used in class. Students who are learning in-person will receive workbooks during their regularly scheduled classes with Mrs. Farrell or Mrs. Henry. Our Distance-Learning families are asked to pick up their children’s workbooks next week at the Gym doors on Friday, October 2 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm. If you are not able to make this day and time, kindly contact Mrs. Farrell or Mrs. Henry to make other arrangements.
We look forward to sharing more information about Friendzy as the program progresses. Please look for updates on the Counselor's Corner Page of our SJS website.
