We will be focussed on being 'Respectful' over the upcoming fortnight. Being respectful includes caring for ourselves, our people and our environment.

We'll begin this week by exploring what respect means and what showing respect might look like, sound like and feel like. Our aim is to help children discover what it means to be proud of themselves, and how to respect themselves. We will also be exploring ideas about respecting others – thinking and acting with empathy and treating others the way we want to be treated.

Being able to communicate with respect is an essential skill. For our younger tamariki/children this will include ideas about taking turns, talking and listening – while with older students we’ll go deeper and look at appropriate ways to communicate with people that are different to us.

A reminder that you can help us to develop these Mantra by talking about these at home, using the same language and, reminding your child/ren that that is 'how it's done' by everyone that walks through the gate at Shotover.