PAUSE 4 THOUGHT
Pause 4 Thought
17 January 2020
‘Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever, have enough.’ —Oprah Winfrey
We start this term by considering Gratitude and the role it plays in our individual well-being and in the wider community/world. Gratitude means being thankful, often for what we have, rather than what we want. The picture represents some of the things for which I am grateful. It is so very easy for us to take ordinary, everyday things and people for granted – not least our families, our homes, our health.
In assembly the girls and staff generated an acrostic for things that they are grateful for: it is an eclectic mix!
T – toys, trees, trumpets
H – houses, hands, hats
A – anagrams, allotments, apples
N – necks, noses, netball
K – kangaroos, knees, kindness
Y – yoyos, yaks, Yasmina (to represent friends!)
O – ostrich, omelettes, onions
U – umbrellas, us, unicycles
Our whole school Chaplain, Allison Hadwin took our assembly on Wednesday, and, in addition to considering the story of the Magi and Epiphany, reminded us that:
‘It is not happy people who are grateful but grateful people who are happy.’
A helpful thought to take us into the weekend.
Mrs D-C
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