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School dinners are important to young people's health, but more important is what we feed their minds.
We do not know what jobs our young people will be doing in 20 years time, some of them have not even been invented yet! What we do know is that the future is based on knowledge and we are entering the age of the mind.
Educationalists, coaches and psychologists understand well that the skills, knowledge and positive attitudes that are laid down in the early years have a big influence on how children turn out as adults. Just as we are what we eat, so we become what we think. What we put into the computer that is a child's brain influences both their behaviour and their attitudes. So, if we really want to improve the society we live in, it stands to reason that we should concentrate on equipping the next generation - the entrepreneurs of tomorrow - with the necessary attitudes and life skills to support them in this challenge. But, first, we must equip teachers and mentors themselves with the power of positive psychology.
Jack Russell has spent 20 years of his life dedicated to a positive alternative for education, having worked in school classrooms and in an outdoor environment. Now, together with Anna Thompson, he has created the "Bee Positive" manual and toolbox for use in schools and colleges. It provides teachers and County Councils with everything they need to encourage positive attitudes and young enterprise amongst their pupils, including a flexible and interactive lesson guide, presentation slides, worksheets and props.
"Bee Positive" focuses on developing foundational life skills in seven key areas:
- Comfort Zones
- Positive Focus
- Communication
- Personal Leadership
- Relationships and Teams
- Goals
- Motivation
The manual dedicates a highly interactive and fun teaching session to each one of the seven areas and each session may be adapted according to time restrictions and different abilities. Children find the sessions interesting and entertaining and, more importantly, their minds soak up the information like a sponge.
The cost of the "Bee Positive" programme includes a two and a half day course run by Jack and Anna which ensures those introducing "Bee Positive" into their schools understand the content well enough to adapt it and use it to best fulfil their needs.
"Bee Positive" has received an overwhelming positive response from schools that have taken part in the project to date, including:
· Beaver Education project - Special School
· Brunswick House Primary School
· Claremont Primary School
· Colliers Green Primary School
· Dymchurch Primary School
· Fulston Manor School - Secondary
· Grange park - Special School
· Hadlow College - FE College
· Highsted Grammar School - Secondary
· Highworth Grammar School - Secondary
· Hugh Christie Technology - secondary
· Lynsted and Norton School - Primary
· Mascalls School - Secondary
· Minterne Junior School -Primary
· Northfleet School for girls - secondary
· Northfleet Technology College - secondary
· Oakwood Park Grammar - secondary
· Offham Primary School
· Preston Primary School
· Sandgate Primary School
· Seabrook Cor E Primary School
· St Anthony's School Margate - Special School
· St Peters CEP Primary School
· Tunstall CEP Primary School
· Weald of Kent Grammar - Secondary
· Wilmington Hall Secondary School
To find out more about the "Bee Positive" project for schools, visit www.beepositive.co.uk or telephone Jack, Liz or Anna on 0845 0652345.
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