Empowered Program

This week during the Easter raffle assembly 60 brave Empowered students performed a "flashmob" to share a spontaneous music vibration. Using the beat of a drum to ground and express themselves the Empowered students for 9 weeks explored beat and how it feels and resonates within their bodies.  Like all music, sharing it with the whole school, was inevitable.  However I mention that these students were BRAVE as bravery is one of the character strengths that they had explored.  

BRAVERY is when you feel scared and you do it anyway

Some of the Empowered students were fearful of standing up and drumming in front of the school and were coached to face their fear.   Performing within a group can give you confidence and yet the biggest block to doing something different is usually our own self talk.  One student who was aprehensive and thought about not coming to school on the day of the performance ran up to me on Monday and said,

" Arent you proud that I am here today Ms Spicer?" to which I replied "Of course I am because I know that YOU have overcome your fear and are showing the character strength of  bravery."

Having learnt about all 24 character strengths this was a great example of the strength of BRAVERY.  

"What is something you did this week for the first time that required bravery?'

Watch the flasmob is on your child's seesaw account.

Enjoy

Ms Spicer

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