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practical day-to-day school activities
to help students feel connected to
their peers, school and community.
It was created to help develop
coping skills, and to boost resilience
and confidence in children.
Around the same time, St Peter’s
also implemented the responsive
classroom. This is a student-centred
social and emotional learning
approach to teaching discipline. After studying the Scientific
Method, the boys set up a
It consists of a set of research “walking water” experiment
and evidence-based practices
designed to create safe, joyful and
engaging classrooms and school
communities and, most importantly,
the children’s voices are valued!

Fast forward a few years to 2022
and we are now ready to implement
our school’s wellness programme.
Traditionally, positive education is
a blend of academic learning with
character building and well-being at
its heart, and our programme is no
different. What is fascinating is the
strong link between well-being and
academic progress. An excerpt from an
article by Lea Waters states: “A school
curriculum that incorporates well- Aside from Bounce Back and the strengths that we will be consciously
being will ideally prevent depression, responsive classroom, there are developing with the boys. These
increase life satisfaction, encourage many things that St Peter’s does important concepts underpin our
social responsibility, promote creativity, well that fall under the umbrella positive education curriculum.
foster learning, and even enhance of positive education. Our values
academic achievement.” (Waters, 2014) system links closely to the character #AheadoftheGameBehindEveryChild

Enjoying practising
multiplication sums on
the windows and doors -
evidence that learning can
take place everywhere!

For enquiries or more information
visit: www.stpeters.co.za
Tel: 011 705 3423
105 Witkoppen Road, Paulshof,
Johannesburg