Here at Locking, we use Zones of Regulation to support the emotional regulation throughout the school.
Here is a summary of the zones of regulation for you to understand and use at home...
What is the Green Zone?
The green zone is used to describe when you’re in a calm state of alertness.
Being in the green zone means you are calm, focused, happy, or ready to learn. This is predominantly the state you want your child to be in. It’s also the state most needed in the classroom in order to learn.
How would your child behave in the Green Zone?
How might your child be feeling in the Green Zone?
What strategies do we implement in school to keep children in the Green Zone?
What strategies can you use at home?
Stories to read at home:
What is the Blue Zone?
The blue zone is used when a person is feeling low states of alertness or arousal.
When you’re in the blue zone you may be feeling down – sad, sick, tired, or bored. You’re still in control, as you are in the yellow zone, but with low energy emotions.
How would your child behave in the Blue Zone?
How might your child be feeling in the Blue Zone?
What coping strategies do we implement in school?
What strategies can you use at home?
Stories to read at home:
What is the Yellow Zone?
The yellow zone describes when you have a heightened sense of alertness.
This isn’t always a bad thing, and you typically still have some control when you’re in the yellow zone. Being in the yellow means you may feel frustrated, anxious or nervous. But, it could also mean you’re feeling excited, silly, or hyper – which is okay in the right situations.
How would your child behave in the Yellow Zone?
How might your child be feeling in the Yellow Zone?
What coping strategies do we implement in school?
What strategies can you use at home?
Stories to read at home:
What is the Red Zone?
The red zone describes an extremely heightened state of intense emotions. When a person reaches the red zone, they’re no longer about to control their emotions or reactions.
This is the zone kids are in during meltdowns. Being in the red zone means you’re feeling anger, rage, terror, or complete devastation and feel out of control.
How would your child behave in the Red Zone?
How might your child be feeling in the Red Zone?
What coping strategies do we implement in school?
What strategies can you use at home?
Stories to read at home:
Understanding the zones with your child
Talk through the zones with your child. Ask them how they would feel in each zone?
Remind your child that we will all experience all zones and there are no good or bad zones - however our success in regulating our emotions depends on us recognising our emotion, understanding it and putting a support strategy in place.