During Term 3, each Thursday afternoon, our teachers will be conducting Pastoral Care lessons with students that focus on ‘Relationships’. Particularly, we will be looking at the social-emotional keys to success of ‘Confidence and Persistence”.  

Parents and carers can support this focus at home by taking opportunities to discuss and teach students about the importance of:

• Accepting myself
• Taking calculated risks
• Being independent
• Having an ‘I can do it!’ attitude
• Giving effort
• Working tough
• Having a growth mindset

Thank you to those parents and carers who help promote ‘The Windsor Way’ with their students.

Taking Ownership- Helping students to develop their own internal locus of control

As adults, we’ve learned that to get the job done, we need to be self-motivated and put the effort in. Hopefully, we’ve learned by now that there’s little point in relying on luck, or the help of others, or waiting until the planets are aligned. Our kids are dependent on us as parents for much that happens in their life. But it’s important they learn to develop an early awareness that the ‘place’ where learning originates and is controlled is inside them. It’s called ‘internal locus of control’.....a big term for little kids....and us as parents...to find out more about how to help your children develop their own sense of ownership of their direction, please click here.