Journal activities to enjoy, engage with and offer deep reflection to.

1. You are invited to write a letter to yourself. Within this letter, you are encouraged to be kind, positive and praising. These moments we are currently living through are difficult, that is undeniable. However, what is also undeniable is the strength, resilience and courage each of you as primary school students of St. Ursula's are showing so consistently. You have each shown a willingness to adapt, a talent to adjust and a skill to improvise - what a wonderful list of attributes. So, write a letter to yourself offering inner gratitude and thankfulness to the person you are and continue to be. Some points you could focus on - offering credit to the school work you are carrying out, praise for remaining so positive in light of many hurdles, positive personal comments on how you are adapting to a new and different process at home, encouragement for the strength and commitment you are each demonstrating daily.

2. A task requiring you to answer the following questions;

- What words would you use to describe your loved one's and family members who continually offer you help, guidance and support?

- How important do you think it is to offer people equal respect? Explain your answer.

- Do you think that through kindness we can uplift someone else's feelings but also our own? If yes, how?

- A motto reads - I will treat others as I would like to be treated. Do you think that this motto is one that you could implement in your own life? Do you think it is something that could make the world a better place?

- What do you think the phrase 'remain true to yourself' means? Would it have anything to do with not changing for other people... Not trying to be someone you are not to impress a certain group...

3. Read the following piece of writing and create a reflective response to it, indicating how it made you feel, how it impacted you and how you might use the words in the future.

Times have changed since last March. The world and its people have had to adapt. The physical has often been replaced by the virtual, closeness often replaced by distance, togetherness commonly replaced by separation. However, when things get back to 'normal' and we can rejoice, gather and become united once more, will it not be beyond magical? Better than magnificent? Will that moment not act as a flame for growth, a fuel for positive change and a vehicle for a better future? When those brighter times arrive and we smile with honesty and talk with an absence of pressure, will it not be a time of universal happiness? Positive times are coming, closeness is coming - we must believe that. Friendships that have been taking place from a distance will be replaced by clapping of hands and running of feet. Family conversations carried out online will be overtaken by a group gathering, one where facial expressions can be better read, intimacy gathered and emotion captured. United we are and united we will continue to be. "Storms get tired too".. Remember that!