Posts Tagged ‘Happiness’

16
Mar
2019

Grandfriends Day

categories: Weekly Updates

To be grateful means to display deep appreciation for something done or received.

Today the students in 4T showed enormous gratitude towards our special visitors – and we had a whole lot of fun!

The Year 4s started off with an impromptu song along with our Bumble4 conductor and music teacher Mrs Summers on the deck. Click play below for a small snippet:

Then, together with our grandfriends we had to complete a sheet called figure me out where we had to think of an answer to a question. Eg. What year did you start Prep? We then had to come up with an equation for someone to solve so they could learn our answer to the question. ‘This is trickier than some of the maths I did at school!’ one of the grandfriends was overheard saying.

4T with their special visitors

We then went off to a wonderful assembly where we heard many uplifting musical items and were reminded of the importance of the special people in our life who support us, love us and who we can turn to at anytime.

Leave a comment with something that you are grateful for and why.
4T, can you also share one of your equations you created with your grandfriend.

11
May
2017

Happiness Week

categories: Positive Ed

This week our entire school has been celebrating Happiness Week.

We have been trying to practise mindfulness and being more in the moment by savouring our fruit snack. We have written down ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ tasks and paper battled to choose a random act. Our challenge is to do this for 5 different people without letting them know. 

Today is ‘Thankful Thursday’ and it is all about practising gratitude.
Almost the entire Junior School participated in a Gratitude Wall where we wrote a quick note to say something that we are thankful for.

In 4T we wanted to take this further, so we wrote gratitude letters to members of our school community to thank them for the impact they have had on our learning and wellbeing.
After giving our letters to these special people some of their reactions were:

‘Thank you so much’
‘This is really nice’
‘You have made my week’
‘I am going to put this on my fridge’
‘This is going on the wall’

In 4T the givers of the letters said they felt a bit nervous to hand over their letters but after they did, they felt happy and good about themselves because they brought joy to someone else’s day. 

What are you thankful for and why?