For homework last week the Junior school children talked to their parents about the behaviours, attitudes and skill they think a child leaving Cashmere Avenue School should have.
This is what they decided was important:
- Be respectful to teachers and students
- Good at listening and speaking
- Have the skills to learn
- Hard working
- Know their basic facts
- Fit and healthy and know how to stay healthy
- Be helpful
- Able to work in teams, with others and independently
- Friendly, have friends and know how to make friends
- Interested in learning and love/enjoy learning
- Get on well with other people
- Try their best at sports
- Enjoy the arts
- Happy, enthusiastic and positive
- Able to stand up for themselves
- Confident and feel capable
- Sensible, polite, well-behaved, well-mannered
- Organised and prepared
- Leadership skills
- Mentoring skills
- Exam skills
- Able to resolve conflicts
- Good work habits
- Try things, even if they can't do them yet
- Ready to take on challenges
- Good at reading, writing and maths
- Honest and open to others
- Aren't afraid to ask questions
- Look forward to the future
- Feel safe
- Have initiative
- Good role model
- Have time for everyone
- Tolerant of people and differences
- Caring and kind
- Responsible
- Sensitive to other's needs
- A good friend
- Participates at school and in the community
- Independent
- Know where to get help
- Appreciates and respects the environment
- Have high aspirations of themselves
- Ambitious
- Use ICT appropriately to support learning
- Have empathy for others
- Creative and imaginative
- Problem solving skills
- Self motivated
- Understands strengths and weaknesses
- Proud
- Encourage and support others
- Show initiative
- Inquisitive
What do you think of their list? Have they missed out any behaviours, attitudes or skills you value? Which of these elements are most important to you? Have your say!
