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Being Thankful

Being thankful is one of the most rewarding and beneficial activities you can possibly do. Feeling gratitude not only helps you to feel good (positive mental health effects), but it can also help you to manage challenging situations (resilience).

This year has certainly thrown up up few challenges and as we come to the end of our stage four lock down it is important to keep our spirits up and focus on what has gone well.

We have so much to be thankful for this year.  Personally I am thankful for:

•  our staff who have guided us through the process of online learning and managed the challenges they face with positivity and good spirits
• our wonderful parents who have supported our students through online learning whilst many have been also working from home
• my own good health
• the love of my family  
• the words of encouragement from families
• the fact that we are now in spring and that means the days are getting longer and warmer
• the friends I am catching up with on line who help to keep me connected and grounded
• the workers who have kept our state 'going' this year, supporting the community

I could go on....

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”  (G.K. Chesterton)

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

(Oprah Winfrey)

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”  (William Arthur Ward)

 What makes your heart sing? What is it that you are most thankful for?

Father's Day

Father's Day and Mother's Day are days where we are encouraged to express gratitude to our parents for all that they do for us and mean to us.  It feels as though this year we should be even more grateful. 

I would like to wish all the fathers a wonderful Father’s Day on Sunday.

Dad’s Perfect Gift

I picked some yellow flowers 

that were growing in our yard,

put them in a fancy vase,

and made my dad a card.

My sister laughed and boldly said,

“Your gift is very silly.

Dads like ties and grills and tools, 

not stuff that’s sweet and frilly.”

But when I gave my dad his gift,

his face was all aglow.

“Why thank you, son, for pulling weeds,

now I’ll have less to mow.”

(Lill Pluta)

Robyn James