Tuesday, 16 June 2015

More Awesome Art

S5 have been learning to use water paints.  We are delighted with our geometric designs.



Saturday, 13 June 2015

How to develop 'resilience' in our children.

A skill all children need to learn to enable them to succeed in life is resilience.  I was impressed with the simplicity of this poster as a reminder of how we can boost resilience by regularly using these phrases.Resilience_1000px_HyperL

10 phrases you hear in resilient families: are you using them?

Michael Grose explains how children and adults in resilient families tune into each other's needs, choosing situation-specific language, rather than simply regurgitating generalised ‘feel good’ or ‘get on with it’ platitudes.

If you want to read more check out this link.