After the school board hui, we were given the opportunity to 'rethink' our initial achievement challenge and proposal. Coming in to this process, I already knew that my data from my 2020 class, did not support the same achievement challenge, that my 2019 class did. I was starting to rethink my whole proposal, and was told that this was ok (whew!).
What did I think? Well, from the first few weeks of school, and in my role as a pastoral leader, I realised that our students are facing significant challenges around their mental and emotional wellbeing. I had fielded more phone calls and emails from parents about children experiencing anxiety in the first few weeks of this year, than I had over the course of a whole year in 2019. I think this also signals that society is changing as well.
I began to throw ideas around about challenges facing students around wellbeing, anxiety and mental health. This is also an area I have become quite passionate about in recent years, after experiencing the loss of young people within our kura and community, and seeing the impact that this had on so many people.
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