YEARS/GRADES 4 TO 6

Team challenges promote collaboration. Collaboration is essential in almost all aspects of life – in the playground; classroom; families and in every work environment! Collaboration is evident when a group of people come together and contribute their expertise for the benefit of a shared objective or project.

Understanding and feeling compassion is essential for healthy relationships and contributes to reducing incidences of bullying in classrooms. Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Compassion is the capacity to understand the emotional state of another and have genuine feelings for other people's circumstances and feel motivated to support and assist. Compassion requires action.

Empathy is the awareness and understanding of another person's thoughts, feelings, and circumstances. The ability to co-experience the feelings and thoughts of other people, is an essential life skill.

Exploring an attitude of gratitude requires students to look at their situations from a point of appreciation. Gratitude from the Latin word gratus, means ``thankful, pleasing.`` Gratitude is a feeling or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.

Honesty and integrity are important attributes for everyone. Honesty is defined as fairness and straightforwardness of conduct when one speaks the truth and act truthfully. It is often connected with sincerity, integrity and trustworthiness. Being honest requires courage, realism, trust and it takes practice.

Perhaps the best way to teach the virtue of humility is to foster in our children a deep sense of gratitude. Humility means “the state of being humble.” Both the word humility and humble have their origin in the Latin word humilis, meaning ``low.`` A low focus on the self is not self-deprecating but rather an accurate recognition of one’s accomplishments and worth.

The simple routine of sharing a joke instantly brings humour into the classroom. Early translations of the word ‘humour’ relate to medical conditions of the body. In time the word humour came to be used as a general term for ``disposition or temperament`` and more recently humour has come to refer to something that is funny.

Mindfulness is the quality of being present and fully engaged with whatever is happening in the moment and meditation is the training ground for learning mindfulness.

Concepts of perspective, ‘point of view’, Perspective has a Latin root meaning ``look through`` or ``perceive,`` and all the meanings of perspective feature the act of ‘looking’. Perspective taking is the ability to look beyond your own point of view, so that you can consider how someone else may think or feel about something.

Classroom affirmations are used to create a positive and supportive environment to help students develop a mindset of positivity and success. Positivity is the practice of focussing one’s mind affirmatively on the good and constructive aspects of a matter to minimise negative or destructive attitudes and emotions.

Self-acceptance is the awareness of and satisfaction with one's strengths and weaknesses - the non-judgemental realistic assessment of one's talents, capabilities, and general worth.

To trust someone, you must be able to rely upon that person and, at the same time, feel both physically and emotionally safe. TTrust is central to healthy relationships and young students can engage in fun active activities exploring trust. Trust is the confidence that a person or group of people has in the reliability of another person or group. It is the degree to which one feels they can depend on the other party to do what they say they will do.

Team challenges promote collaboration. Collaboration is essential in almost all aspects of life – in the playground; classroom; families and in every work environment! Collaboration is evident when a group of people come together and contribute their expertise for the benefit of a shared objective or project.

Understanding and feeling compassion is essential for healthy relationships and contributes to reducing incidences of bullying in classrooms. Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Compassion is the capacity to understand the emotional state of another and have genuine feelings for other people's circumstances and feel motivated to support and assist. Compassion requires action.

Empathy is the awareness and understanding of another person's thoughts, feelings, and circumstances. The ability to co-experience the feelings and thoughts of other people, is an essential life skill.

Exploring an attitude of gratitude requires students to look at their situations from a point of appreciation. Gratitude from the Latin word gratus, means ``thankful, pleasing.`` Gratitude is a feeling or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.

Honesty and integrity are important attributes for everyone. Honesty is defined as fairness and straightforwardness of conduct when one speaks the truth and act truthfully. It is often connected with sincerity, integrity and trustworthiness. Being honest requires courage, realism, trust and it takes practice.

Perhaps the best way to teach the virtue of humility is to foster in our children a deep sense of gratitude. Humility means “the state of being humble.” Both the word humility and humble have their origin in the Latin word humilis, meaning ``low.`` A low focus on the self is not self-deprecating but rather an accurate recognition of one’s accomplishments and worth.

The simple routine of sharing a joke instantly brings humour into the classroom. Early translations of the word ‘humour’ relate to medical conditions of the body. In time the word humour came to be used as a general term for ``disposition or temperament`` and more recently humour has come to refer to something that is funny.

Mindfulness is the quality of being present and fully engaged with whatever is happening in the moment and meditation is the training ground for learning mindfulness.

Concepts of perspective, ‘point of view’, Perspective has a Latin root meaning ``look through`` or ``perceive,`` and all the meanings of perspective feature the act of ‘looking’. Perspective taking is the ability to look beyond your own point of view, so that you can consider how someone else may think or feel about something.

Classroom affirmations are used to create a positive and supportive environment to help students develop a mindset of positivity and success. Positivity is the practice of focussing one’s mind affirmatively on the good and constructive aspects of a matter to minimise negative or destructive attitudes and emotions.

Self-acceptance is the awareness of and satisfaction with one's strengths and weaknesses - the non-judgemental realistic assessment of one's talents, capabilities, and general worth.

To trust someone, you must be able to rely upon that person and, at the same time, feel both physically and emotionally safe. TTrust is central to healthy relationships and young students can engage in fun active activities exploring trust. Trust is the confidence that a person or group of people has in the reliability of another person or group. It is the degree to which one feels they can depend on the other party to do what they say they will do.