We had a hugely successful Whanau Day on Friday and a big part of that was the fantastic parent involvement on the day! Thanks so much to everyone who came, got involved and helped out!
A core tenant of the Positive Education Model is learning about your character strengths. On Friday, we spent the whole day in whanau groups working across the school unpacking 4 -5 strengths.
The VIA Institute explains the proven benefits of knowing your strengths:
Children worked in mixed groups with parents and teachers and senior students unpacking strengths through literacy, role play, art, music, PE, dance, science and more.
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| We explored fairness through playing some games where random people had certain advantages, while others had disadvantages. This sparked some interesting conversations and ideas. |
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During our whanau day we explored the character strength of curiosity. We are exploring different objects and thinking about what they could be used for.
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During our whanau day we explored the character strength of leadership. We are discussing the qualities of a leader.....what a good leader is and what a good leader isn’t.
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| We explored Prudence and created a movie script and a film illustrating what it is to be prudent. |
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| We talked about what kinds of things are zest builders and busters. |
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| We explored Love of Learning by doing science experiments and trying to make slime! |
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We explored Creativity by learning how to weave flax birds! We explored Forgiveness by thinking of things that make us angry .... |
This is just a snip-it of the many different activities and strengths that were explored on Friday. But ultimately after the exploration each group created artworks to visually represent 1 of the strengths they had learned about all day. These will be collated to create our own WBS Character Strength Poster similar to this:
Here are some of the works in progress:
Stay tuned for the final product!
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