ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY ‘I acknowledge and pay respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.’ MORE THAN A WORD. RECONCILIATION TAKES ACTION Reconciliation week is over, but it Read more…
How are you feeling about going back to school? This experience will have been different for every student, teacher and parent. Some will be happy, others traumatised and everything in between. We can’t assume how anyone feels. How do we deal with all of this? Phychologist Dr Helen Street, chair Read more…
http://picasion.com/gl/9PR0 by Barb Bellesini What is inspiration? Middles and Seniors watched the following short video called: –‘NEVER GIVE UP, Nick Vujicic in a School.’ Nick is a motivational speaker who was born a Thalidomide, with no arms or legs. He has a short limb he calls ‘Chicken drumstick’, and has become a Read more…
YAY! The SHOP is OPEN! by Barb Bellesini After 5 months of toiling and trying, never giving up and making little and big bits of progress, following my own advice, positive thinking and Growth Mindset, I engaged a professional to help me finish setting up my BE POSITIVE PROGRAM Website Read more…
http://picasion.com/gl/8VSh/ by Barb Bellesini It was Random Acts of Kindness Day on Feb 17th. What did you do?? Have YOU performed an Act of Kindness today? Have YOU shown kindness to someone else today?? Each child from grade one to six, chose an Act of Kindness to carry out over FOUR Read more…
Acts of Kindness – using our Strengths and Talents to make us better Citizens A couple of weeks ago our Positive ED teacher gave us a task to do: ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ using the talents and strengths we have: some people have space and vision talents; some have maths and logic; Read more…