Nga mihi nui ki a koutou katoa – warm greetings to everyone

Welcome to week 10 of term 1. I hope you had a lovely 5 day break with your families spending some quality time together!

Growth Mindset and Resilience

I have been giving a lot of thought to resilience lately. It appears that our children today are somewhat lacking in resilience as they face difficult tasks or events and are not able to cope as well as they should. Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity. It means “bouncing back” from difficult experiences. How can we as parents and teachers help our children to develop a better ability to deal with the curve balls that life will inevitably throw our way at some point? Telling our children to ‘suck it up’ does not work and is not helpful for their emotional growth or problem solving abilities. Being a ‘helicopter parent’ and fighting every battle for our child has a similar negative outcome in that they develop a learned helplessness. Teaching a growth mindset at home and at school is one way we can help our children grow in resilience. Here are some tips for parents…

Bucket Fillers:

I was delighted to receive a bucket full of affirmations from our Room 1 students this week who were talking about filling each others buckets to positively build each other up. What a cool idea! This principal is feeling ready to take on the end of the term.

Visitors on school grounds:

Please note that anyone (including parents) that visit the school are to sign in at the office. We have a new digital sign in service. Maureen will be more than happy to show you how to use it.

Also, please remember that you MUST sign your child out at the office and give a reason if you are picking them up early.

Stars of the week:

Ka Rawe te mahi (awesome work) to Seb, Hunter and Doug for their reading response work around the lifecycles and migration of the Godwit.

Sports:

SUMMER SPORTS tomorrow 5th April

Y1-3 will be having Tabloid Day

Y4-6 will be playing T-Ball

The day starts at 9:50 Meet and Greet games start at 10:00am

Morning Tea 10:45 – 11:00

Lunch 12:10 – 12:45

Games end 2:00pm

Basketball notices need to be in by Thursday 5^th April.

Rotorua Mini-Marathon notices need to be in by Thursday 5^th April.

JUNIOR SWIMMING SPORTS

The junior swimming demonstrations will be held on Friday 6th April at 1:45 – 2:45pm. All parents are welcome to come along and see the progress of their children in their swimming lessons.

Phil

Calendar:

 Lunch Orders:

SUMMER SPORTS TOMORROW 5th April

Thank you everyone for getting your sports lunches in early. If you have forgotten to order there will be sausages and ice blocks for sale tomoorw.

There will be no Friday lunches this week.

Lost Property:

Our lost property pile is huge – tomorrow is a good time while you are here to  check it, it gets cleared over the holidays.

Nãku i runga i aku mihi ki a koe – Yours with thanks

Richelle McDonald

and our team –Jill, Phil, Susannah, Rachel, Julie, Maureen, Heather, Tina, Mary, Kim, Ross & Stevie.