Outside the Box Monday 6th July 2020 Great Minds Don’t Think Alike
Wellbeing Tasks Use one of your strengths to do something positive
A newsletter helping the Box Hill School community stay together, stay informed and stay happy.
Bridging the gap As the final Pastoral Newsletter before the summer break, and with the hope that we as a society can return to some semblance of ‘normality’ in September, this edition is very much centred on the idea of ‘bridging the gap’.
In the last edition, we discussed the idea of dispassionately accepting the inevitability of change and learning to adapt quickly to it. As we head into an extended summer break and thus another point of transition, this message hits home again. For some, this newsletter will arrive after they have completed their time with us; this summer will be their last few weeks as an enrolled, official student at Box Hill School (and we wish them well for their futures!). For others, this summer will be the last before four years of important public examinations. Everyone in the community is facing change; but with a positive mindset this need not be anything other than an exciting adventure into the new.
today Discover your creative side – draw a thank you card for someone Write down three things you are grateful for Find a positive response to something you are worried about
To bridge a gap, one must know what is to come. As uncertainty is an ever-present in the current climate, the key is to be adaptable. As the American writer and futurist Alvin Toffler wrote; ““The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”