Category: Strengths
Y1 Exploring Character Strengths
Books are always a great way for exploring concepts. One activity that was successful both for talking about character strengths and for identifying the purpose of a story was a…
Y2 Indoor Gardening Space
The Y2 children have been getting their hands dirty and doing some gardening during our Community Learning. We have been planting different herbs and vegetables that we can hopefully harvest…
Y2 Reflecting on Strengths in our learning
As part of their preparation for Student Led Conferences students were asked to reflect on the strengths they use in their learning. They also considered how they might need to…
Strength Spotting in Year 4
During morning meetings and circle times, students in Year 4 spend time spotting the strengths they see their classmates using. These students, and their actions, are recognised and celebrated.
Overuse & Underuse of Character Strengths
We have been looking at further ways to go deeper with character strengths. One of the ways is for students to recognise when they might over or under use a…
Chalkboard Character Strengths
A fun thing to try at home or in your class is to focus on a strength a day. We’ve used the chalkboard to write a message. Something quick and…
Being Thankful through storying
Year 1 read the story, The Thankful Coat’. We talked about all the things in life we are thankful for. This is something we can refer back to and reflect…
Y1 Gratitude
Year 1 have been focussing on Gratitude as it is one of the top Strengths most strongly correlated to Wellbeing. All classes have a Gratitude wall that are different according…
LDT Character Strength Flowers
Using Character Strengths to support IEP SMART targets – the process included conferencing the student to develop their understanding of their IEP targets and co-construct these into the student’s…
