Each week we begin with MJR Assembly in the Gallagher Centre. We talk about one area of
our St Mary’s Behaviour Expectations. This week we are looking at Y from Mary - Your
Best Self in the classroom and one aspect of this that we talked about was “working with
confidence and persistence”.
We often talk about the need for persistence and not giving up but we focused a little
more this week on confidence. As a learner it can be easy to say this is too hard and I am
no good at it. Sometimes as parents we can say “I was no good at Maths either or I wasn’t
very good at art” and this is meant in a comforting and supportive way but sometimes
these types of responses can have the opposite effect. Making excuses for our learning is
not okay and we need to talk confidently about ourselves as learners and say things like
“Yes, I found that hard too, but I never gave up, I asked for help and with practice I got
better at it.”
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