Student Wellbeing
Growth Mindset
We often hear professionals speaking about having a growth mindset.
Here are some tips into developing a growth Mindset in children from the Beachborough Parents’ guide to MINDSET.
A growth mindset thinking can result in:
- A love for learning and self-improvement
- A desire to be challenged
- A willingness to work for positive results
- A belief that you can control the outcomes in your life with effort and practise
- The ability to learn from mistakes and failures
- Emotional resilience
- Being self-motivated
How can we help our children develop a growth mindset?
- Praise carefully – not for intelligence but for effort
- Encourage deliberate practice and targeted effort
- Encourage high challenge tasks to grow those brain cells
- Discuss errors and mistakes and help your children to see them as opportunities to learn and improve
- Encourage family discussions about mindset and which mindset they (and you?) are choosing to use
- Teach children to talk back to their ‘fixed mindset’ internal voice with a ‘growth mindset’ internal voice
- Start now by redefining the meaning of a few ordinary words…
Effort is …
the secret to getting smarter.
The more targeted effort you put in, the more you’ll get out. You can help your children to focus their effort and attention, encourage practice. Regularly recognise this effort praise.
Difficulty …
Difficult and challenging tasks give the opportunity for growth. Create excitement with your children as they take on a new challenge and push outside of their comfort zone. Recognise each achievement and point out to them how much they are learning.
Mistakes …
Mistakes are a great opportunity to get feedback, to learn and to grow. Help your children to see that mistakes are feedback (not failure). They provide a great opportunity and motivation for growth. Recognise that when working outside of their comfort zone, they are likely to make mistakes that they can learn from.
Yet …
A small and empowering word …YET… shifts thinking from a fixed to a growth state instantly, use it in conversation with your children. When you hear …
“I can’t do it” … rephrase and add ‘YET’. “you can’t do it yet, is there anything I can do to help you?” or “I’m rubbish at this” … rephrase and add ‘YET’. “You haven’t found the best way to learn it yet. What could you do next?
Grandparents/Special Friend Day
I hope by now all Grandparents/Special Friends have been invited to this special day on Galilee’s
calendar and the date has been locked into their diaries.
We all look forward to welcoming these special people to 9.30am mass in St. Peter & Paul’s Church and then up to the classrooms after mass.
Grandparents/Special Friends will then be invited to have Morning Tea together in the hall. As it is ‘Book Week’, they will also have the opportunity to buy books at the Book Fair.
Friendship Benches
We have been fortunate to receive a donation of $1000.00 from the Port Phillip Lions.
We are most grateful for their most generous donation and our Yr. 6 Student Wellbeing leaders are currently researching Friendship Benches –
- What are the best types of benches to purchase?
- What would they look like?
- Where would they be positioned?
- What would they be used for?
- Who would use them?
They will be working with the SRC Leaders to seek their ideas and suggestions.
Watch this space for more information.
Julianne Price
Student Wellbeing /Student Services Leader
Ph. 96992928