Tag: health and wellness
Instilling Healthy Phone Habits in Students
Ritch Primrose offers strategies to help students develop healthy relationships with their smartphones and their digital world
How to Sustain Your Child’s Emotional Health at Home
Counsellor Tessa Lloyd offers suggestions for parents to support their child's emotional well-being during the pandemic
Reframing Resolutions
Mr. Ritch Primrose highlights how the past year has given us a new perspective that can help us reframe our thinking around New Year's resolutions
The Highs and Lows of Educating During a Pandemic
Our expectations of ourselves need to be adjusted, especially when it comes to adapting to long-term challenges, writes Susan Vachon
5 Tips for Supporting Your Child’s Mental Health During a Pandemic
Allison Peace, Middle School personal counsellor, offers helpful ways parents can ensure their child feels well through the challenges of their new normal
How to Prepare Your Child for the New Normal at School
Carole McMillan offers tips to help ensure your child's transition back to school is smooth
Health and Wellness Week at Home
Students and teachers share tips to help you stay happy, healthy and well in times of change
Talking With Children About COVID-19
Our personal counsellors provide parents with tips on talking with children about COVID-19
Grade 8 Students Highlight Mental Health at Leadership Conference
Teacher Tanya Lee highlights why Grade 8 students chose to focus their leadership conference on mental health
How to Make and Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Carole McMillan, Director of Personal Counselling, highlights 5 ways to help you make and keep your New Year's Resolutions
Ask SMUS: What Has Changed About the SMUS Smartphone Policy?
Mr. Ritch Primrose writes about the phone policy at the Senior School that prioritizes student health and wellness
Get Your Brain Fit for Exams
Imagine this: you’re launched into the future and neuroscientists tell you that physical activity is just as important for your brain as it is...
4 Tips for Supporting Your Child’s Mental Health
Personal Counsellor Ms. Allison Peace offers invaluable tips for parents to support their child's mental health
The Fresh Start Effect
Heath and Wellness Week 2019 is in the books, and what a hive of activity it was! Students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 were...
‘Be Present. Phones Off and Away’ – Is Our New Smartphone Policy Working?
Our Director of Health and Wellness provides an update on the smartphone policy and considers the next steps that could be taken in the near future
Portrait of a Learner: Helping Students Find Balance in Their Busy Lives
Middle School students learn the importance of finding balance in their lives to help set them up for academic success
‘Be Present. Phones Off and Away’ – Explaining Our New Smartphone Policy
Mr. Ritch Primrose, Director of Health and Wellness, writes about the new smartphone policy at the Senior School this school year
Looking Ahead to Health and Wellness Week
Mr. Ritch Primrose highlights the work of Dr. Greg Wells, the keynote speaker for our upcoming Health and Wellness Week
How Are Your New Year’s Resolutions Coming Along?
Our Director of Health and Wellness Mr. Ritch Primrose asks us to reflect on our goals of becoming our best selves.
VIDEO: Aysha Emmerson Talks Acceptance and Inspiration at WE Day Vancouver
Head Girl Aysha Emmerson spoke at WE Day Vancouver about acceptance, mental health and the power people have to support and inspire others
GALLERY: Junior School Students Photograph Health and Wellness Week
Check out the gallery of photos taken by Kindergarten to Grade 5 students during Health and Wellness Week at the Junior School
Ask SMUS: What is Acceptable Cellphone Use at School?
Director of Academics Ms. Denise Lamarche writes about technology and acceptable cellphone use at SMUS
Health and Wellness Week Arrives at SMUS
Director of Health and Wellness Mr. Ritch Primrose highlights what's happening at SMUS as part of Health and Wellness Week (April 3-7)
How Sleep Impacts Learning and Development
Listen to Director of Learning Adrian French discuss what happens when we sleep and why it is so important to learning and development
Setting Resolutions for A New Year or a New Day
Mr. Ritch Primrose, Director of Health and Wellness, writes about setting and achieving goals for the new year
Walking the Talk On Healthy Eating
Mr. Ritch Primrose writes about how eating healthy food impacts the brain, and the newest healthy food options available in the Tuck Shop
Wellness and Balance
This week we are hosting the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) U15 Girls’ Soccer tournament. Starting yesterday, the fields have been full of teams...
Model the Way
September is a time full of energy on the SMUS campus. For teachers, students and parents, this time of year marks a fresh start....
SMUS Teacher Feature: Ms. Crystal Vaughan
Get to know Middle School counsellor Ms. Crystal Vaughan in this week's SMUS Teacher Feature
10 Tips for Starting High School on the Right Foot
Head of Counselling Ms. Carole McMillan offers advice for starting high school on the right foot
Resilience as an Opportunity for Student Growth
One of my favourite roles at the school is coach of the Senior boys B basketball team. Basketball runs through the veins of SMUS,...
Balance and Resilience: Making Time for Health & Wellness
As a school that hangs its hat on preparing students for higher learning and for life, the ideas of balance and resilience are important....
Lynn Lyons on Building Emotionally Healthy Kids
Licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist Lynn Lyons returned (by popular demand!) to SMUS during Brain Awareness Week this week to talk about building...
Brain Awareness Week: An Active Brain Keeps It Healthy and Well
Our annual Brain Awareness Week – now in its fourth year! – is a time for our community of students, parents and staff to...
Running Club Highlights Fun Fitness in Non-Competitive Environment
Even before the sun rises, a large group of Junior School students is spending three mornings a week getting a fun fitness session in before classes...
A healthy mind in a healthy body
I only know one Latin phrase, and sadly, this basic lexicon may never improve. Mens sana in corpore sano. The motto of the old...
Balance and resilience
I am fond of “twins” in the SMUS lexicon. For instance: “passion and compassion”, “truth and goodness”: the term “twins” suggests the inseparability of...
Health, wellness and balance
The shift in health and wellness focus in recent decades has given more complex meaning to one of the School’s mottos, mens sana in...
Ideas that are pearls: balance
Some ideas are like that grain of sand inside the oyster, nestled in a spot where it absorbs the elements that coat it. In...
