This year we have been working quite hard on building positive relationships with others. During our Kia Kaha unit we designed posters that support this concept.

Friendship is not an emotion, is not a verb. It is where you share a bond of gratitude and therefore feel, that having that feeling of importance is good, so you stay around the person who makes you feel that way.

Friends trust each other. They have faith that they will all do what is asked of them and never tell a single lie, unfortunately as human beings, that is extremely hard. Trust is a sharing of belief, and belief is what drives people.

Encouragement plays a big part in friendship. It strives people to believe they can achieve things greater than what they have done before. With encouragement comes help, and help cannot be taken, only given. And help will always be given to those who deserve and ask for it.

When your friends with someone you usually share interests. You like and dislike similar sorts of things. You enjoy sharing ideas about things you like and finding faults in the things you don't.

Support is one of the most important things in a friendship. When life knocks them down you help them back up because it is your duty as a friend. You help them get past the past and look to the possibilities of the future.

An example of some of the amazing work being done in our class.

Friendship is not an emotion. It is not a verb. It is a permanent bond that is hard to be broken as the saying goes

Good friends are hard to find

Harder to leave

And impossible to forget

By

Merric Hill