From the Director of Students

Middle/Senior College parents are asked to please check their child’s uniform, particularly formal hats as a number of clearly named formal hats have been misplaced. We fully understand how easy it is for students to pick up someone else’s hat by...

This term, as part of our focus on PERMA, we are looking at Accomplishments. The connection between accomplishment and flourishing is very clear when we consider how an experience of achievement can empower our sense of self. In other words,...

At the end of last term, an audit was completed to identify the main reasons students were receiving MIBs. With the start of the new term, it is an opportune time to address these issues. The main areas of concern are: Students wearing their sports...

In her book on Building Emotional Intelligence, Linda Lantieri discusses John Gottman’s research that encourages parents to become an emotional coach for their children. This means that parents use opportunities presented by difficult or hurtful...

This term in PERMA, we have been focusing on Positive Relationships. Professor Roy Baumeister argues that the key dimension in understanding the human mind is that it is social; it is designed to work with others. According to Professor Baumeister,...

One of the key core aims of Positive Education is for individual students to flourish. Flourish has become a key term in pastoral discussions at Pacific. In meetings, we have been using the definition of flourish as one of greater wellbeing, a...

This week, the Year 9 students returned from their camp after a very positive experience. Thank you to the Rite Journey team of Dr Peter McMahon, Mrs Toni Fisher and Mr Duncan McNee for their leadership of the camp. Following, Year 9 students Joseph...

Last term I wrote about Linda Lantieri’s new book, Building Emotional Intelligence . In it she discusses how nature provides moments for stillness as we connect to something larger than ourselves. Being in nature calls us to be in our bodies and...

Linda Lantieri has written a new book, Building Emotional Intelligence: Practices to Cultivate Inner Resilience In Children . In the book, she writes about establishing new rituals and routines as a family that can help children to keep calm and...

Recently, there has been much research completed on gratitude in education. Kerry Howells from the University of Tasmania has published an interesting new book titled ‘Gratitude in Education A Radical View’. Kerry Howells sums up the research with...