Week 17 28.01.22

Motivational Feelings

How does motivation feel?

If you answered with something positive, you are wrong just like most people in Monday's assembly. Let me explain...

This week, I was extremely motivated to go swimming. At 0528 on Wednesday morning I did not feel positive! See exhibit A!

Being motivated means DOING IT regardless of any negative feelings you may have.

If you have a picture of you or your children being motivated WHILST looking tired, un-energised, fearful, nervous, scared, etc. please do send them in for my motivational feelings board! Let's all help to normalise and support these feelings when we try to do anything challenging!

Success Feelings

So why do many people think motivated people must be feeling positive? What we forget is that we often judge this by the look on their face after successes. (See exhibit B!)

Sometimes, doing the hard thing - homework, exercise, going the extra mile - is a real emotional challenge full of fear, self-doubt and excuse-making.

Only afterwards do we feel a sense of achievement.

Understanding that negative emotions are utterly normal can help many of our children and adults to get on with DOING IT - motivated to succeed and then to feel positive! See the rest of the newsletter for the successes that DOING can build!

Cave painting in Year 3

How did the risk of starting the design feel for some children? Worried about a mistake; worried about looking silly or being judged by others? But they did it!

This week in our history lessons, we have been learning all about Stone Age Cave paintings. We found out that Cave Paintings can still be seen today and are one way of learning all about the Stone Age. We based our ideas on examples of real life Cave Paintings. Often the paintings would have been outlines of hands or animals. We added our Cave Painting to our caves to make the cave look more realistic.

Parent parking Advisor Update

We all want the parking to be better - we are all motivated - when we ask for your support, how do you feel? Thank you to all the parents who have signed up to find out more about the Parking Advisor role. We plan to email out basic information before half-term so you can consider and formally agree or not.

We do apologise for the delay in getting this up and running which is due to Covid preventing the Road Safety Council from being able to lead on the advice wording and the initial launch. We, optimistically, hope for a launch after half-term.