The Learning Pit - James Nottingham

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Be more dog and change your attitude, change your life!

The power of self belief and taking a risk to leading a more fulfilling life!

Grit, Resilience, Mindset and Perseverance with an Olympic Athlete!

We were lucky enough to meet and hear about the very inspiring Nicky Coles - a rower and Olympic gold medalist! What a story! After many disappointments, Nicky persevered and displayed resilience in order to achieve her dreams. Thank you Nicky for your messages and interesting story you shared with us.

Incredible achievements...

Find out more about her career here.

Challenges: They test our thinking and our persistence!

This week, Room 3 children were given the challenge of creating an interesting paper structure. No one was allowed to touch the structure, only look at it from different angles. It was very challenging and tested most people's perseverance. Some people grasped it quite quickly, but the majority - including Miss Cocks, found it difficult to work out.  Miss Cocks recorded the language we were using when faced with this challenge. Some of the language was positive and some of it wasn't.  Some of us persevered with the challenge, and some of us didn't. We were quite surprised by some of the things we had said. As a group, we are going to spend some time looking at our mindsets when faced with a challenge and understand how our mindset and our attitude can be affected in different ways and how we can have control over how we choose to approach something.
 
 
 

 

 

 
 

Pudding Hill Camp 2016

We arrived back on Friday afternoon after the most amazing camp at Pudding Hill, extremely tired and ready for an early night, but, with satisfied souls from all of the outdoor adventure we experienced.

Activities we took part in were abseiling, confidence building on low ropes, archery, mountain biking, river crossings, bush walks and a super fun water slide made all slippery with dish washing liquid. We (both us kids and the adults) enjoyed the slide in beautiful warm, sunny weather but also in murky, cold, rainy weather.

We also performed skits at a camp concert, played indoor 'spotlight' and 'sardines', made our own pizzas and roasted marshmallows! We learnt about search and rescue and carried our classmates on stretchers and found hidden safety items. We also played frisby golf. One of the activities lots of us found most fun was building bivouacs in the bush! We created huts from fallen branches and found ferns, bracken and dried grass to cover the walls of our huts. What's more, when we checked our huts the next day after a night of strong gales and heavy rain, they were still standing - pretty impressive!

There was a lot of risk taking on camp with people stepping outside of their comfort zones to try new things they were a bit afraid of. Some people were very unsure about abseiling, the low ropes and even the water slide, but many overcame the little voice of fear in their head and challenged themselves to try and keep trying. Many felt very proud and a real sense of achievement after doing what they had been fearful of.

Below is a small sample of photos. The wide, bright eyes and smiles say it all!

Check out the slideshow on the righthand side of this blog!

 

Our BEAUTIFUL Irises...(and last post for the year)

If you've looked at our blog, you will know we have been doing observational drawings. We have finally finished our beautiful purple and yellow irises! They are all stunning and unique. We worked so hard to look at the shape, colours, textures, shades and tones. We are going to give our paintings to someone we love for Christmas.