At Pleasant Street, we recognise the importance of promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing to our children and their families. We use the Zones of Regulation across school, to help us talk about how we are feeling. Teaching the zones gives children a shared language to talk about their emotions by associating them with highly visual coloured zones.

The Zones of Regulation

The BLUE ZONE describes low states of alertness and down feelings, such as when a person feels sad, tired, sick, hurt, lonely or bored. Our energy is low and our body is moving slowly when we are in the Blue Zone.

The GREEN ZONE describes a calm, alert state. We may be feeling happy, focused, content, peaceful, or calm in the Green Zone. The nervous system feels safe, organised and connected in the Green Zone, helping us be primed to learn. However, we can learn in other Zones too.

The YELLOW ZONE describes when our energy is higher and our internal state starts to elevate. Our emotions get a little stronger. We may be experiencing stress, frustration, anxiety, excitement, silliness, confusion, nervousness, be overwhelmed or have the wiggles when in the Yellow Zone.

The RED ZONE describes a state of extremely high energy and intense, very overwhelming feelings. We may be in an extremely heightened state of alertness, potentially triggering our fight, flight, freeze or flee protective response. We may feel elated, euphoric, anger, rage, devastated, out of control, panicked or terrified when in the Red Zone.

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