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ST PETER’S BOYS PREP
IS A POSITIVE LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
By Erica Faul
Creating Japanese trees from
watercolour paint and straws
‘But what we can do and S t Peter’s is embarking form part of an explicit curriculum
what we are ethically on an exciting journey designed to teach students key
concepts that can help them to
to implement positive
called to do as teachers, education lessons into our flourish and live healthy and fulfilling
is to create a space in our curriculum in order to ensure that lives. The heart of positive education
is about the three-legged pot:
our children feel truly seen, heard
schools and classrooms and valued for their uniqueness. cultivating and strengthening the
where all students can relationships between students,
walk in and for that day or Of all the heartbreaking effects of teachers and parents, creating a
culture of well-being throughout
COVID-19, the way in which it has
hour, take off the crushing impacted our youth has to be its the school community.
weight of their armour, most damaging legacy. This makes
hang it on a rack and open the well-being of our students Having adopted the Bounce Back
more important than ever before.
programme by Toni Noble and
their hearts to truly being Helen McGrath some years ago,
seen.’ Positive education lessons are positive education is not an entirely
– Brene Brown not about replacing the everyday new concept to St Peter’s. This
was the first positive education
pastoral care, coaching and
relationships that teachers have programme in the world, which
with their students. Rather, they sought to provide a series of
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