Positive Accomplishment through Goal Setting

Our Learner Attribute this term is “I am a Goal Setter”. We have been talking about what that means to us and identifying some new learning goals.

Setting goals is an important aspect of Positive Accomplishment - goals enable us to have a clear direction in life, providing us with a sense of purpose. Setting and accomplishing a challenging and worthwhile goal also leads to Positive Emotions, which we know has a positive impact on our wellbeing too!

As outlined by Norrish, J., Robinson, J. & Williams, P. (2011), Positive Accomplishment involves the capacity to work towards meaningful goals and the motivation to persist despite challenges and setbacks (Growth Mindset).

Knowing how to persist and persevere when faced with a challenge helps us to develop resilience, which will help us tackle obstacles that may pop up later on in life. 

Today we had our first 'Whanau Sharing' opportunity where we got to share our writing goals and pieces of work we were proud of with an older/younger buddy. 

 

It was great to receive feedbak from our buddies and get to share in their learning goals and successes too. Look at how awesome we were at listening to each other and taking turns to share out work!!

 

 

 



In a few weeks time we will have Student Led Conferences where we get to share our goals with you (the parents) and fill you in on how we are progressing towards all our learning goals. Keep an eye out on the Newsletter for further details.