Our Programs
We believe it is important to collaborate with families to provide a social, emotional, and risk-prevention education for all our students so they feel confident, comfortable and secure dealing with an increasinngly complex world.
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Start with Hello
Preschool - Elementary (3rd)
Start with Hello is a program between PS and Elementary Students (3rd grade). They use different activities during the School year and in the Second Step and Character Education classes, students: - Identify when someone is alone - Learn to communicate and help - Start with Hello. Also, there´s one whole week every year in March in which Students do different activities supporting this program.
Second Step
Preschool - Middle School
Children will learn social-emotional skills to cooperate, communicate and improve decision-making. Our objective is to educate children who are socially and emotionally competent have more friends and more connections with positive peers, and are less likely to be rejected, isolated, or bullied. Children with friends are happier and more successful in school and personal lives.
Say Something
Elementary School (4th) to High School
Teach our community to recognize signs and signals of violence to themselves or others to protect each other, through different activities throughout the school year. In March it is the official week of Say Something in which students from 4th to 12th grade participate in the creation of School wide activities that take place in that week.. Read more...
FCD Prevention
Middle School (8th) to High School
FCD Prevention Works began its partnership with The John F. Kennedy School, The American School of Querétaro (JFK) in 2015. Recognizing the utility of hard data in formulating a comprehensive approach to substance abuse prevention, JFK first chose take the FCD Student Attitudes and Behavior Survey in 2015 in grades 9-12. Since then the survey has been administered year after year, currently it is also applied to 8th grade students. The information provided by this survey is decisive for planning prevention activities and conferences for students and parents.
Support Groups
Preschool to High School
Accompany students who have gone through various socio-emotional situations in order for them to see that there are more classmates who are going through or have gone through similar emotions in various circumstances that provides them with peace of mind and greater security within the school environment.
Current support groups are:
* Social Skills (ES)
* Divorce (MS)
* Mourning for the loss of father or mother (it was the first group 8 years ago, currently it has not occurred)
* Third Culture/Culture Shock (MS & HS)
* New students (MS & HS)
* Mindfulness (MS)
Each group lasts from 2 to 6 Sessions with feedback to parents.
Peer Mentors
Elementary (4th) to High School
Peer Mentors seeks to promote lidership in students from High Elementary throught High School. The principal rol of students is to share their experiences with other students so they can help them during each of their school transitions. This program connects with our mission because it reflects lidership throw serving, sharing with otthers and creating beauty. Each sections works diferentrly depending on the age of the students but the main idea is to support each new student at the section during their process. We give him a peer who will work as his mentor during his integration process.
Mentoring
Elementary (5th) to High School (12th)
Mentoring is the opportunity we give to students to have a trusted addult in school to talk to. The goal of this program is to have a network that accompany students and ensures their social and emotional well being by opening an acertive channel with them.
Guidance
High School (9th)
Guidance is a subject where students of 9th grade get to know each other better. They can reflect on how respond and act and why they do it that way. It is a space where they can cuestion themselfs on who they want to be and what do they need to do to achieve it.
Advisory
High School (10th)
Advisory is a subject with a socio-emotional orientation that takes 10th grade students on a journey of self-knowledge and exploration of their environment, in which mental health issues are studied, an approach to a personality profile is made and students are strengthened with information on risk behaviors and healthy ways to navigate adolescence.
Parent Talks
JFK Parents
To give the JFK parents the opportunity to be trained and updated by specialists in different areas to promote comprehensive health and prevention of socio-emotional risk factors for their children, through a series of conferences planned by the SSS team.
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Tools for Parents
JFK Community
Tools for Parents arises from the need, during the pandemic era, to virtually accompany parents on different topics, not only social-emotional but also of a different academic nature, through live interviews through social networks. (FB and Instagram) with specialists from different areas of the school. Currently this program is renewed and today it is through the Spotify platform. Listen to it HERE