Nuggets of Gratitude

Feeling gratitude and expressing your appreciation is one of the simplest ways to bring greater joy, love and optimism into your life. Here are some nuggets of gratitude from the Worser Bay School community...

Positivity: Training our Brains

 

This week we have been learning more about optimism and the role our brains work to process emotions.

We learnt about Negativity Bias, that our brains are programmed to focus on negatives (it's what helped our ancestors survive!). We have to train our brains to focus on positives or silver linings. 

Good news! Thanks to neuroplasticity we can practice positive thinking to get better at it - like working out a muscle!

 

We created our own positive messages for our fridges at home. A reminder that we can focus on positives and our brains just need to practice!

Optimism

As part of our Positive Education programme, we have been learning about optimism. We watched the "positive attitude" animation. 

What does the saying 'is the glass half full or half empty' mean?

What is optimism?

By Mae A

 Hunter J: 

1.The saying of is the glass half empty or half full means if someone is being bright and cheery or if someone is being sad and weary.

2. Optimism means if someone is looking on the bright side even if something not to good is happening and there thinking of the good things instead of the bad things.

Marnie: 

1. What does the saying 'is the glass half full or half empty' mean? I think it means that if you are optimistic you would say 'the glass is half full' and if your pessimistic you would say 'the glass is half empty'. In the video the dog was optimistic and wanted to play but the boy was being pessimistic and didn't.

2. What is optimism? It means that you always look on the bright side of life, are usually happy and full of energy (dog), but pessimism would mean that your sad and never really want to do anything (boy), the opposite of optimism.

By Hadley