Anson Street School Newsletter

Positive Education @ Anson

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

PBL Focus: Be Safe on the bike track: Ride your bike on the left side in an anticlockwise direction. Walk on the left side in a clockwise direction.

 

Students have been focusing on being safe on the bike track and whether they are walking, running or riding a bike they are looking out for each other and modelling correct behaviour. It has also allowed them to learn about direction!

 

PBL stars for the beginning of Term 3:

 

Congratulations to these respectful, responsible and safe students.

 

Julie Hudson

PBL Coordinator

Relieving Principal

 

 

 

Positive Wellbeing for Learning (PWL)

This term we focus our teaching of character pillars on the quality of gratitude. 

 

What is gratitude?

 

Gratitude is noticing and acknowledging the goodness, positives, and blessings in our lives. Psychologist, Robert Emmons, Ph.D., (2007), writes that gratitude is not simply a feeling – it is much more. The experience of gratitude calls us to recognize that we have benefited from someone’s kindness. And gratitude implies humility in understanding that others have contributed to who we are or where we are in our lives – that we are beneficiaries of kindness, goodness, or positivity.

 

Taking the time to feel gratitude helps to improve our emotional well-being by helping us cope with stress. 

 

Gratitude may be one of the most overlooked tools for increasing happiness. Research shows it is the single most powerful method of increasing happiness.

It has been proven that gratitude can lead to more socially inclusive behavior, and it can go on to play a pivotal role in forming and maintaining relations.

 

Here are some of the ways we can all practice some daily gratitude:

  • Keep a journal of or in some way note big and little joys of daily life.
  • Write down "three good things"—identify three things that have gone well for you and identify the cause.
  • Write thank-you notes to others.
  • Think about people who have inspired you and what about them was most significant.

At school we will be practicing gratitude with games and scavenger hunts among other things. Below are a few ideas for practicing gratitude at home with the whole family.

 

What are you grateful for today?

Mrs Jenny Rosser

Deputy principal

PWL coordinator