Positive growth mindset in Year 3

This week, 3GN experienced a Zoom video with Commonwealth Games 2018 athlete Murray Goodwin. Mr Goodwin is also a secondary school teacher at Varsity College and continues to train and coach in the Athletics (Track and Field) arena, as well as Secondary school sports teams and district teams.

The students in 3GN have been involved in a Positive Growth Mindset Deep Learning project this term and in preparation for their interview with Mr Goodwin today, they worked in teams to plan and write interview questions to ask him. The questions related to training goals (SMART goals), personal achievement, commitment to sport and training, nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices.

Mrs Gillard was so impressed with the excellent focus and the mature questions the students asked as well as the way they conducted themselves during the Zoom interview. Mr Goodwin commented about what an excellent bunch of kids 3GN were! The sharing highlight was Murray’s experience in competing at the GC Commonwealth Games and his connection when meeting Usain Bolt (a career highlight)!

A really positive experience!

Young authors are always in our spotlight

Well done this week to students in 5SL on their wonderful Point of View writing.  

And to these fantastic young writers in Prep.  Look at how long their written pieces are.