MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012
THE INDEPENDENT, BIGGAR, SK - 13
Lord Asquith School newsletter Principal’s Message by Donna McTavish Congratulations to the senior girls basketball team and their coaches, Lori Dufort and Perry Quittenbaum! Our girls won conference play last weekend and will be going to Districts in Wilkie with the hope of securing a place at Provincials. Good Luck Girls! Our senior boys team, with coach Sean Tyson and Shannon McHanson, finished their season play this past weekend. Though these young men were not successful in getting to district playoffs their hard work and team cohesiveness was evident on and off of the court. We are already looking forward to next year! Thank you to the School Community Council for promoting the arts in our school and community. The SaskTel Youth Tour with Persephone Theatre presented two plays to our school community. Tree Boy provided our Kindergarten to Grade 8 students an opportunity to explore a current world issue within a unique and thought-provoking experience about how one child can make a difference in our world. Our senior students learned that personal background and experience affect the way in which historical events can be interpreted, and how the same event can be seen and understood very differently by different groups of people. Both shows were excellent! Elementary students will receive their report cards on March 16 and Grades 6-12 will be handed out on April 5. Parents
and students will be notified if an interview is needed. Please remember that parents are invited to call and set up an appointment at any time. Last month I talked about empathy and why it is important for our children to care. How do we as adults nurture our children in a way that promotes empathy? In the article, “Why Children need Limits”, T. Berry Brazelton, MD, and Stanley I. Greenspan, MD state: All learning, even of limits, begin with nurturing care from which children learn trust, warmth, intimacy, empathy and attachment to those around them. Limits begin with nurturance and caring because 90 per cent of teaching children to internalize limits is based on children’s desire to please those around them. Children want to please for different reasons: because they love the caregivers and want their approval and respect or because they are afraid of being punished for misbehaving. Generally, they are motivated by a combination of the two. Children who limit their aggression and “bad behaviour” strictly out of fear are likely to behave themselves in situations where there is an authority figure present because that’s who will dispense the punishment. Fear tends to be situation-specific. Many children don’t generalize well from fear. For example, a child who learns to be scared about hitting a sibling may not hit the sibling when the parent is present, but she may hit other children at
school because she hasn’t been punished explicitly for hitting other children at school. When discipline is seen as teaching and is conveyed with a great deal of empathy and nurturing care, children feel good when they comply. It is a warm, nourishing feeling to know that you are making the right decision because it is the right thing to do. When such a system is in place and children or teenagers are guided by inner values and goals, they can be in a variety of situations and make wise judgments about the appropriateness of their behaviour. They will be abiding not just by their parents, their teachers, or society in general, but by their own inner sense of values and goals in contrast of fear based limits. At Lord Asquith School our restitution model is a part of this system. We know that children will make mistakes and our role as educators is to give each child the time and guidance needed to fix their mistake and come back to the group a more empathetic and caring individual. It’s not about seeing the glass half full or half empty. It’s about seeing the glass filling.
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Four members from the Biggar Karate Club attended the Seventh Annual Tri-Western Karate Tournament in Wilkie on March 10. Events included Kata, Team Kata, and Weapons Kata. Results were as follows: Kata: Madeline Ellard - Silver; Ethan Massie Bronze; Rick Garchinski - Bronze. Team Kata: Benson Garchinski - Bronze. Their next competition, April 21 in Lloydminster, is the Genbukai Karate Canada 27th Annual Traditional Karate Championship. Over 300 competitors, beginners to Black Belts are expected to participate.
Biggar Karate Club brings home medals Sensei Bev Barth (l) and Sampi Shirley Holzman, (r) pose with medalists. Winners Madeline Ellard and Ethan Massie after being awarded their medals.
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