What do you see in the picture? What do you notice? Can you predict what this story is about?
A High school in South Carolina USA noticed students were using unkind language at school and home. Students were choosing to use negative comments and the effect on the school community was...
What do you think the effect was?
The school felt all the negative comments were giving their students a "poor outlook on life"
What does mean?
One of the teachers, Leila McCoy, was concerned her students were just being 'complainers', running everything down and taking about everything being bad. Miss McCoy says she talked abut her mother; "I was always told by my mother that life is about perspective, to find the good in everything and eventually everything is doable and everyone is likeable."
What does Leila mean by this?
Do you agree or disagree?
Can you see different points of view about this statement?
Miss McCoy got a plan together. Looking at the picture, can you guess what the plan was?
Miss McCoy set up a social media group for her students. Students signed up under the agreement and expectation that they will only use it to send positive, motivational messages to each other at the start of the day. The messages came through Miss McCoy's name but the words came from the students.
Why only positive . motivational messages?
What do you think happened?
The group became a huge success. All the students sent positive messages every morning. The class set a motto: "Be the change you want to see."
What does this mean?
Why do you think everyone signed up and stayed positive?
Why do you think no one ever messaged unkind words?
How do you think this affected the mindset of the class?
How does social media work today? Is social media always like this?
How do we get social media to be more like this today?
How could we do this at our school without using social media? Is there any way we could get positive, motivational messages to other pupils in your school? How would it affect our school?
A school in Birmingham worked out a way of getting positive messages to different classes during Covid. They places envelopes under doors with messages of support; even just "Have a nice day, love from Y3" worked A Y6 class realised Y2 were in a class directly below them and they lowered a basket from the outside window to knock on the Y2 window, with a message from Y6 - "hello to y2, have a great day from y6")
What do you think the impact was on the school?
How can language you choose to use every day affect people around you?
Why is this about No Outsiders?
Which British Value is this about?
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