A message for children in the ACT about Covid-19 lockdown

Everyone in Canberra is talking about COVID and lockdown. There's lots of information on the news and websites. But it can be hard to find anything just for kids that explains the things that they want to know. The Covid info for kids page has updated information for kids every few days. 

In this morning's announcement I talked about this page and the video below. I let students know that if they had more questions about it, they could get you to show them the newsletter this afternoon. They can also access a Lock It Down! Newsletter available for students to read.

Some students may be interested in the Young Thinker forum, which is available for young people to have their say. 

Current topic 

They want to know what it’s like for children and young people during lockdown. They ask the following questions:

• How is lockdown going for you?
• Is there anything that has really helped you? Is there help that you wish was available?
• Do you have questions about lockdown that you need an answer to?
• What are you doing for fun?

Students can write to them! Create an artwork or cartoon, submit video or audio, or send them a poem or song. They can do this on their own or with their friends. They are invited to have their say in their own way.

Enter via the form below or email us at actkids@act.gov.au 

League Stars Inspire

To support young people in the community, the NRL are offering the NRL League Stars Inspire Health and Wellbeing  program online (Free). The workshops are facilitated by Alan Tongue with the assistance of NRL and NRLW players. The workshops which are targeted at Primary School aged students and aim to encourage young people who may be socially isolated or vulnerable to apply the knowledge and understandings, skills, attitudes and values that are central to being resilient, supported and grateful.

The program is a series over four weeks with one workshop released every “Wellness Wednesday” at 10:00 am AEST. These can be viewed live or at a later time.

The League Stars Inspire Health and Wellbeing program will be delivered over four 30 minute online workshops:  

• Workshop 1: League Stars Inspire Resilience – Wednesday 18^th August 2021  

• Workshop 2: League Stars Inspire Support - Wednesday 25^th August 2021 

• Workshop 3: League Stars Inspire Gratitude - Wednesday 1 September 2021 

• Workshop 4: League Stars Inspire Questions and Answers with NRL and NRLW players - Wednesday 8^th September 2021 

You may have missed the Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 but these are recorded and available at the below link.

https://www.nrl.com/community/programs/league--stars-inspire/