Boost 1 - Term 4 Week 4

Last session we talked about teachers.  Students get feedback a lot, but teachers generally don't, so we thought about all the different teachers that we have had and then wrote down the things that we really liked about them and things that we weren't happy about them.  There were no names of course and we got some really interesting feedback about what 'makes a good teacher'.  This was then put up in our staffroom for the teachers to see, and the teacher's loved reading it!  We then made a small questionnaire to ask the other children in the school what they thought a good teacher should be like, and the Boost kids surveyed the children in Rooms 5 to 9.  

Today we collated that information and learned about the importance of recording everything, even if you don't agree with it.  Each answer had to be documented for the research to be authentic.  The children were quiet surprised at some of the findings and it was really interesting to see the responses.  Then they suggested that they also question Rooms 1 and 2, then the whole school would have been asked, so this afternoon they took their questionnaires to the junior rooms. They then collated this further information and saw that Room 1 and 2 have a very different view of school then the senior classes.  For instance Rooms 1 and 2 wanted help with their writing and the older kids mainly wanted help with their maths.  This collated information will again go into the staffroom for the teachers to see.

After this was finished we started talking about the Pay it Forward phenomenon.  I showed the children a couple of short clips from the movie and this helped to explain what 'paying it forward' means.  At this time of year especially, people start getting stressed and tired and focus on the negative, and paying it forward forces us to look for ways that we can help others and find that kindness in the world.  The challenge for all of us this fortnight is for us to pay it forward 3 times if possible.  Help someone in a big way, help them do something that they could not do by themselves.  Random acts of Kindness can be found everywhere.  We will talk about what we managed to do next session.