Only dead fish go with the flow....

Hellloooooo... is this thing on! Yes, I know it's been a while since our last blog post. We've still been doing great things - we just haven't been letting you know about it!

I recently shared this quote with the students:

It's so much easier in school, in life to just go with the flow- trends, behaviours, learning...  It's challenging to go outside your comfort zone, to do something different to others especially when you're 11! I encourage this "outside the square" thinking... it's only when we go outside our comfort zone that we experience new and wonderful things and realise a potential we may never have known existed. 

The students have been sinking their teeth into descriptive writing, taking risks with new vocabulary, unusual sentence starters and character development. Their narratives are proving to be engaging and entertaining as I read them aloud to the class. There could be some future authors in this class!

I asked an LA8 writer to put himself out of his comfort zone and write a guest blog post. 
"Cool!" he replied. "What should I write about?" he questioned. 
"I want some honesty," I replied, "don't just tell us what you think we want to hear. I would like your honest feedback about Yoga and Mindfulness activities in LA8. Do you think we should do them? Do you think they help? I've asked you SD because I feel you will be honest."

Without hesitation SD hopped onto the computer and moments later we had this.... his first guest blog post.....

I feel that yoga helps us with our posture and gives us an extra boost of confidence when we really need it. It has been beneficial for us with sport and we have got more advanced in yoga. Mindfulness has been helping us with concentrating and code switching. We are always more focused after mindfulness and we produce better work as well.

We have something special because we are the only class who does yoga, but most do mindfulness and they all say it helps every single minute afterwards. Every day when we do yoga we get better at it. I think we need to spread it though all schools and you should try it to!

So what are you waiting for? Until next time it's paper, scissors....