In Monday’s assembly our focus was success and we spent time talking about Emma Radacanu and what skills and strategies she would have needed to succeed in winning the US Open at just 18.
The children talked together and came up with the following:
At the end of assembly, I asked the children to think about an area in their learning where they were going to apply some the strategies, we had identified to be successful. One Year 4 said she was going to work on her reading. She spoke honestly and openly, saying this is an area that she finds challenging and knows she needs to work hard at. She said she really wanted to get better and better; she expressed that self-motivation we all need to succeed. She went on to say she was going to use her Learning Powers of perseverance and practising to succeed.
On Wednesday, she found me in the corridor with a huge smile on her face. “Mrs Pipe, I did it! I succeeded in my reading” I asked her to tell me more and she explained she had done an accelerated reading test on Tuesday, but there had been lots of noise and she had been distracted and had not scored very well. She said that she had been disappointed, but she had ‘bounced back’ and been determined to try again. And she did! And she got a score she was really proud of. I was and am very proud of her too. What a brilliant attitude. I asked her if that was it, if she’s succeeded now and is stopping there. She smiled and said “No, I’m going to keep going and see what I get next time, I’m going to get better and better.” I have no doubt she will.
Learning is exciting, interesting, challenging and brings lots of happiness and it is also hard work. Well done to all our children who have worked hard to succeed this week. Let’s see what we all achieve next week.
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Pipe
The children talked together and came up with the following:
- Knowing how to use the equipment she uses for the game; a racket and a ball and knowing how to hit the ball in many different ways.
- Knowing and understanding the rules of the game. One of our Year 1 children explained that Emma wouldn’t have remembered all the rules straight away she would have needed to have practised for a while and by doing this the rules would stay in her head.
- Taking the opportunity to learn to play.
- Using many Learning Powers: resilience, determination, practising, risk taking, noticing, and making links.
- The Learning Power of bouncing back; the children spoke about the fact she would have lost many games and would have had to bounce back from the disappointment and learn from her mistakes.
- Motivation: she would have needed to ‘want’ to succeed and to work hard to achieve success.
- The ability to listen to feedback, even when the feedback may have been hard to hear, and act on that feedback.
- Watching more experienced players and learning from them.
- Asking for help and advice and acting on this.
- Respecting the team around her; her coach, physio, dietitian- knowing she couldn’t succeed on her own, people worked with her to help her achieve her success.
At the end of assembly, I asked the children to think about an area in their learning where they were going to apply some the strategies, we had identified to be successful. One Year 4 said she was going to work on her reading. She spoke honestly and openly, saying this is an area that she finds challenging and knows she needs to work hard at. She said she really wanted to get better and better; she expressed that self-motivation we all need to succeed. She went on to say she was going to use her Learning Powers of perseverance and practising to succeed.
On Wednesday, she found me in the corridor with a huge smile on her face. “Mrs Pipe, I did it! I succeeded in my reading” I asked her to tell me more and she explained she had done an accelerated reading test on Tuesday, but there had been lots of noise and she had been distracted and had not scored very well. She said that she had been disappointed, but she had ‘bounced back’ and been determined to try again. And she did! And she got a score she was really proud of. I was and am very proud of her too. What a brilliant attitude. I asked her if that was it, if she’s succeeded now and is stopping there. She smiled and said “No, I’m going to keep going and see what I get next time, I’m going to get better and better.” I have no doubt she will.
Learning is exciting, interesting, challenging and brings lots of happiness and it is also hard work. Well done to all our children who have worked hard to succeed this week. Let’s see what we all achieve next week.
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Pipe