Today marks the day that every student at St Pats has now experienced the Empowered Program with the focus this year being on how we relate to each other.  Every student has had a buddy who, over the 10 week program, they have gotten to know.  Some students enjoyed having a buddy and were accommodating and other students were quite shy and found it challenging.  This week the theme is CELEBRATE where your child is invited to sit in the middle of the room to receive compliments from you their parents.  Based on a ritual performed in an African village the theory behind it goes something like this;

“In this African village when someone breaks the village rules they are taken in the middle of the village and for 3 days the village people create a circle around this person and gives them compliments.  The reason behind this ritual is that when people break the laws it is because they have forgotten WHO THEY ARE.  This ceremony helps to remind them.”

Hopefully all Empowered students will come home this afternoon with a smile in their heart and on their faces.

Thankyou to all of the Club leaders this term;

Art and Craft Group – Alice, Maya, Sophie and Nate

Disney Club – Abbie and Mahala

Bayblade Club – Aiden Green and Archie

Basketball/Volley ball Club – Sonia, Georgina, Lincoln and Falyn

The junior playground has been so peace filled these last two weeks as our new Peer Mediators have been roaming around introducing themselves and helping mediate where altercations have occurred. Helping the younger students come up with their own solutions gives the Peer Mediators skills that they can use in their own lives too.  Don’t be surprised if your child sits you both down as parents and starts practising their mediation techniques at home.  Congratulations to the following grade 5 students Isobel, Lincoln, Joshua, Tyrell, Amelie, Ivy, Oliver and Caitlyn who have been trained as Peer Mediators.