Student Wellness Resources
Mental Health & Resiliency
- Discover the foundation for building solid mental health and resiliency.
- View mental health resources and emergency services information
- View FCPS' Healthy Minds features
- View tips on building resiliency
Student Wellness Tips and Strategies
Feeling super stressed? Worried about a friend's mental health—or your own? Get tips to help manage your emotions and see what to do if you are in crisis.
- How to handle peer pressure
- How to help a friend in crisis
- Quick tips to lift your mood
- Ways to bring balance to your life
- Tips to ease anxiety
- And much more
Zones of Regulation
At WFES, we use the Zones of Regulation poster to help students recognize and manage their emotions in a simple and fun way. This color-coded system encourages self-awareness and emotional control throughout the school day.
- Blue Zone: Feeling sad, tired, sick, or bored. This zone helps students notice when they’re feeling low energy or down.
- Green Zone: Feeling calm, focused, and ready to learn. This is the ideal zone for schoolwork and positive social interactions.
- Yellow Zone: Feeling excited, anxious, or frustrated. It signals that students might be getting a little out of control but can still refocus with the right strategies.
- Red Zone: Feeling angry, overwhelmed, or out of control. In this zone, students learn to pause and use calming tools to manage big emotions.
It’s important for students to know that all zones are normal and appropriate depending on the situation. The goal is to support emotional development in all students, which in turn will improve both academic performances and overall social dynamics within the school setting.
Body Safety Program Presentation & List of Books
WFES is partnering with the Fairfax County Department of Family Services to present the CHILDHELP Speak Up Be Safe curriculum for all K-6 students the week of January 2, 2024. This curriculum teaches children about personal safety. A trained facilitator will present research-based, age-appropriate lessons to help children learn the skills to prevent or interrupt cycles of neglect, bullying, and child abuse - physical, emotional, and sexual.
View the family information session presentation by clicking here
Good Books to read with them about Body Safety:
- Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept by Jayneen Sanders
- My Body Belongs to Me by Jill Starishevsky
- It’s Not the Stork! by Robie H. Harris
- Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
- The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
- One by Kathryn Otoshi
- Say Something by Peggy Moss
- I Said “No” by Zack and Kimberly King
- No Means NO! by Jayneen Sanders
- Your Body Belongs to You by Cornelia Spelman
- It’s MY Body by Lory Britain
- Not Everyone is Nice by Frederick Alimonti and Ann Tedesco
- Some Parts are NOT for Sharing by Julie Federico
- Do you have a Secret? By Jennifer Moore-Malinos
- Uncle Willy’s Tickles by Marcie Aboff