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@DrP_Principal Amazing 🤍

When I was a building principal, we had a group of boys who were consistently getting office referrals during lunch for aggressive and disruptive behaviors. In the past, these behaviors had led to increasingly severe consequences that did not reduce the negative behaviors (and caused some students to be sent home and to miss instruction). I sat down with the group and we worked together to come up with a plan on what to do during lunch. One of the boys asked if we could start a knitting club, since his Auntie had recently taught him how to knit. Since he was a leader of the group, the other boys agreed. I asked them to come back tomorrow with some ideas of what to knit. The next day one of the boys said that he wanted to knit little hats for the preemies at the hospital, since his little cousin was there and that a nurse mentioned that they had run out of the little hats. The boys knitted daily and we delivered the hats to the hospital. We received many heartfelt thank you notes from families, nurses and doctors (and even an in-person visit with a personal thank you and cookies from a newborn's mom). This group continued to grow as did our ability to create knitted hats for preemies. This became a huge success for the participating students. There was significant improvement in the students’ behavior, attitude, achievement, and attendance. It is so important to think outside of the box for “win-win” solutions. It really isn’t the WHAT you do that is important, it is the WHY you are doing it! Our knitting group become a team, family, and community. #maslowbeforebloom

@miss_hrae @GreenwaysPri Congrats 🎉🎊

@GreenwaysPri ECTs graduation day🥳

@kakagirls Wishing you all the best but hurry back to us! Greenways won’t be the same without you 💚

A special day today saying "goodbye for a while" to my Greenways family after being a parent there for 12 years and working there for 11. See you in 2023!

Thank you for a lovely last day Crocus class! I have loved being your teacher the last couple of months. You have all been absolute super stars and I will miss you all. Thank you for all my lovely gifts and cards. I hope you have a great summer! #teamcrocus #thebest @GreenwaysPri

@MissEScott_ @GreenwaysPri ❤️❤️❤️

And just like that my first year as a qualified teacher is officially complete!! Couldn’t have asked for a better school @GreenwaysPri and trust to begin my teaching journey at! Feeling all sorts of emotions, bring on the next one🍎👩🏽‍🏫

Crocus class are staying cool in the #heatwave this afternoon by dipping their feet in cool water while we work. #keepingcool #teamcrocus @GreenwaysPri

Crocus class have enjoyed giving their opinion on the new Southend City Council logo this afternoon. Thank you @SouthendCityC for giving us the opportunity. @GreenwaysPri

@MissRosewell ❤️❤️❤️

It’s a bit of a weird feeling knowing I’m not walking into the classroom tomorrow! Thank you to everyone who made my maternity send off so special. I will miss my lovely class so much over these next couple of weeks. They have come on so much year and I am so very proud of them x

Love this ❤️

What a lovely start to my day to find this left for me this morning. So grateful for my Greenways family 💕 @GreenwaysPri #secretsquirel

With a week to go I’d really appreciate your support for such a great cause…💕

I am completing the Winter Run 10k on 13th February 2022 for Cancer Research UK again this year. Please support my fundraising and help me reach my target to raise vital funds for Cancer Research UK. londonwinterrun.co.uk/s/5048/12029/t

Honoury member of Year 2……I will always be Year 2 at heart ♡

What a great day we’ve had in Crocus class today….Christmas lunch can only mean one thing! Christmas hats and Christmas headbands 🎄 @GreenwaysPri

We’ve had a great afternoon in Crocus class creating our story maps for our story about the lost reindeer in preparation for our independent writing task tomorrow. I wonder who will come to rescue the poor lost reindeer🎅🏻☃️ @GreenwaysPri

Crocus class enjoyed the sunshine this morning during their outdoor learning session. We also enjoyed exploring whilst completing our scavenger hunt @GreenwaysPri

Crocus class had a lovely time being creative yesterday morning…..we are looking forward to more Christmas creative mornings this week @GreenwaysPri

We’ve had a lovely day in Bay class today looking at time openers and then a scavenger hunt looking for verbs and adverbs to help us with our instructional writing next week. Thank you Bay class for a great day of learning @MissRosewell @GreenwaysPri

We had a great Friday dressing up for Children in Need today! We loved creating our own animal skins in Art using our colour mixing skills. We also enjoyed logging in to Times Tables Rockstars on the chromebooks 🦓🐆🎨💻 @MissHuggan @Miss_R_Patel @Miss_Baker22

Don't forget, this Friday is our dress-up day in aid of Children in Need! Donations can be made in advance on Parent Mail. #ChildreninNeed