Zones of Regulation

Flowerdale Primary School is currently implementing a school-wide program for the Zones of Regulation as our main Social and Emotional program. The Zones of Regulation is a framework designed to foster self-regulation and emotional control. Designed by an Occupational Therapist, the Zones of Regulation teaches language and communication around emotions, how to identify sensory needs and develop each student’s self-regulation strategies. Families can use these strategies at home to support children in increasing their social and emotional literacy, as well as their skills of co-regulation and self-regulation.

• Blue Zone: This is where you would be if you were feeling tired, sad, bored or sick. In general, you are feeling slow and uncomfortable.

• Green Zone: This is where you feel happy, pleased, proud, content, calm and ready to learn. This is the ideal zone for students to be in when in class, i.e. feeling comfortable.

• Yellow zone: This is when there is some loss of control; where students may feel worried, scared or frustrated, behave in a silly way or be excited. In this zone, students can be either comfortable or uncomfortable.

• Red Zone: This is where there is a loss of control. There could be feelings of rage, fury, elation or total fear.

You can support your child at home by asking them which zone they are in and by using an ‘I wonder question’.

More information on this program and how you can implement this in your own home can be found in our main office on the notice board.