Positive Discipline: How to apologise.

In our school, we practise positive discipline. We prefer you to make amends and fix your mistakes rather than put you in punishment. 

Here are things you can do when you break the rules. 

a) Say sorry. 

I'm sorry, I was wrong. Please forgive me. 

b) Fix the damage. 

Did you break a toy? Replace it. 

Did you scribble on the wall? Clean it. 

Did you hurt someone? Make up for it by helping them.

c) You can write it down. 

d) You can do a gesture that makes the other person feel better.

Whatever you do, do not be afraid to say sorry. 

Resilience

This week we taught hard about teaching a new word to our children, but as always, they surprised us. They learnt what resilience is fast, and many of them showed strong traits of resilience themselves. We tried to demonstrate this by getting the children to build a large tower made of paper cups. They had to work together, work gently and whenever the tower accidentally fell down, they had to start over again. Giving up was not an option, but finding solutions on how to make the tower not fall down was the rule of the game. 

Here are two photos from this lesson. 

Giving Compliments

One thing that friends do is compliment each other. 

Sometimes we find it easier to find what's wrong in other people than to compliment them. 

Giving a compliment is an easy way to start a conversation with someone. 

Here are some ideas that came out during one of our lessons.

Children wrote or drew compliments for each other on each other's journals.

Kind and Unkind

Here is what we learnt today. 
Sharing, playing with others, being polite, smiling, helping, being there for a friend who is sad are all kind things. 

Kindness

Today we watched this video about kindness.