People who are curious are interested in new experiences. They are also keen to learn and build their knowledge. Curiosity means looking forward to finding answers, learning new facts and having experiences such as visiting a new place or researching an area of interest. It can also mean finding out about someone, learning something new or exploring new ideas, activities or experiences.
What are you curious about?
Self belief, like self worth, means that you value yourself and expect to be treated with respect.
People with a sense of self-belief try not to compare themselves to others. Having self worth comes from setting goals, working to attain the goals and achieving success. This makes us feel good about ourselves.
The positive side effects of high self-esteem, include:
To understand yourself better and increase your self worth you can use these sentence stems (or prompts) :
You can use these statements to boost how you feel about yourself:
I feel valued and special. I really like myself. I am worthy and capable.
You can also use positive self-talk to boost your self worth. To do this, you need to catch yourself saying negative things about yourself in your head and chage the thinking to being more positive (eg. I’m not as good as the rest of my team (at, say, football) you could say; I may not be as good, but I play a valuable role and my team mates think I’m funny/kind/nice)
A story about a girl who worried too much about what others thought of her!
Here are three meditations aimed to boost self-worth
When we are learning from home, some of us miss the structure of school and most of us miss our friends! (I know that our teachers miss you students very much!)
It is important that we practice kindness, gratitude and that we use our character strengths and spot the character strengths in our family members.
Here is a matrix with some fun activities that you can choose from. Remember to use the strategies that you have learnt during PosEd lessons at school.
A story about kindness.
The Lego story; A film about persistence and never giving up, especially if you believe in your idea.
I couldn’t resist sharing this
So…enjoy the next three days and have fun!
We are more likely to succeed and accomplish things when we think positive thoughts. Sometimes this means using positive self talk by noticing when you might be talking yourself out of something and turning your thoughts around.
This clip explains how positive self-talk works!
Meaning is an important part of our school’s PERMA wellbeing (Starfish) model. Within this area sits “Voice and Agency” which are integral elements of the vision of our school.
When people use their voice and agency, they can make a difference and shape the world around them by doing things such as:
Looking after and respecting the environment
Making decisions, asking questions and reflecting on learning
Doing things that make a positive difference and
Confidently voicing ideas
The following clip shows our PosEd leaders; Eden, Charlie and Iggy reading a picture story mentor text about Voice.
Which character strengths do you think the characters in the book used?
The Paper Bag Princess is a story about a brave girl who found her voice.
Today we will be focussing on Relationships which is not unusual really, as our relationships with our family and friends are what sustains us!
Some of the character strengths that we associate with relationships include friendship, teamwork, fairness and forgiveness. We need to use these strengths at times to ensure that we get along with others. We also need to have empathy and understanding.
What is empathy?
I love this book by Bob Graham which shows how kids can bring people together and by doing so, create a community of friendship.
Can you make your own recipe for friendship? How about a friendship cupcake?
Being engaged in your learning also means acting with self control and being organised.
Self-control means slowing down and thinking about your actions.
Similar to self-control is self-management and at school this means working towards being able to:
Whic aspect of self-control would you like to work on?
We all experience a range of emotions, some positive, some not so positive, but being able to identify our emotions and feelings helps us with being able to share with others how we are feeling (if we need to). This also increases our empathy and wellbeing literacy.
Do any of these emotions depict how you are feeling today?
Some of us associate colours with how we are feeling!
Can you choose an emotion and draw it using the colour you feel best depicts that emotion?
This book shows a boy experiencing many different emotions and how it helped him to understand others.
Thanks to Mrs Wrights Classroom for this fun activitiy idea where you can choose the five or more emotions that best describe you 🙂
Accomplishment means thinking positive thoughts and not giving up. It is about having what we call a “Growth Mindset” which is the belief that if we work hard, we can achieve whatever we want to achieve, regardless of natural talent. Using a growth mindset makes us proud of our efforts.
Accomplishment is also about believing in yourself, learning from mistakes and making a plan and working to achieve goals.
Meaning and purpose can be achieved by believing in and partaking in activities that have a higher purpose than yourself. For example, altruism, helping others, volunteering, caring for the environment, raising money for a good cause.
The sense of purpose obtained by taking opportunities to make positive contributions by helping others or improving the world involves not only social connection and community involvment, but carries the benefits of improved wellbeing.
Students will also gain a higher sense of purpose when they use their “voice” to share their ideas and views. This is an important part of our school vision because when students are empowered as learners and leaders, actively contributing to both their own education and to whole school initiatives, their self-efficacy is enhanced, and they experience significant growth in motivation, wellbeing and achievement.