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Newsletter January 2010
Contents
Happy New Year
Warm welcome
Sale
What really makes us happy?
Wolverhampton project
Register With Us
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Happy New Year
The more it snows (Tiddly Pom)
The more it goes (Tiddly Pom)
The more it goes (Tiddly Pom)
On snowing.
And nobody knows (Tiddly Pom)
How cold my toes (Tiddly Pom)
How cold my toes (Tiddly Pom)
Are growing.
A A Milne,The House at Pooh Corner
We hope that the snow is not causing you too many problems and that you have had the chance to get out and enjoy it.
Ruthie and Janet
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A warm welcome
To all the schools embarking on a VisionWorks emotional literacy programme this term.
Whether at KS2, KS3 or in PRUs, this work, aimed at improving emotional wellbeing for students, seems to be making a difference in their empathy, relationships, communication skills and of course their learning.
Increasingly, academics, educators and neuroscientists agree that, for effective learning to take place, students need to be emotionally and socially literate. For those of you who would like to start addressing these issues in 2010, please contact Ruthie Alexander-Morgan or Sue Allen on 01249 409001,ruthie@vision-works.net, sue@vision-works.net. |
 We are currently offering some very attractive reductions until the
end of February 2010.
My World- Emotional and Social Wellbeing at KS2: was £125...is now £75.00
It's OK Being Me - Emotional and Social Wellbeing at KS3: was £4,000...is now £3,600 or £1,350 per year for 3 years
Discovering Me- Emotional and Social Wellbeing for small units, (e.g. PRUs): was £300... is now £150
Please visit our website www.vision-works.net for more information.
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What really makes us happy?
"What really makes us happy?" asks the first Saturday Times Magazine of 2010. The whole magazine is devoted to this question as we begin both a new year and a new decade. Sex? Love? Money? Prozac? Friends? Twitter? Alcohol? the front cover suggests. To a certain extent some of these make us happy for some of the time. But what, we wonder, will enable us to be lastingly happy?
One of the articles in the magazine looks at a Harvard study that tracked the lives of more than 200 healthy, well-adjusted students for 72 years. Having worked with this extensive data for 42 years, we are told that psychiatrist, George Vaillant's studies have made him realise "...the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people."
The crucial part that relationships play in our lives has always been at the heart of VisionWorks for Schools; a good relationship with ourselves leads to self-confidence, and this combined with empathy, tolerance for, and understanding of other people, offers us a good chance of becoming a well-balanced and fulfilled adult.
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"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth"
Diogenes Laertius; 3rd Century Philosopher
The VisionWorks team has been invited to work with Professor Richard Majors and the City College of Wolverhampton. Together, we are creating a comprehensive emotional literacy programme that can be delivered through the curriculum. This will be trialled by two academies in the city.
Using a whole school, cross-curricular approach to addressing and improving emotional and social well being, we expect the results to be even more profound than the current "bolt-on" approach often used in schools.
This is an exciting project and we will keep you informed of developments.
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Register with VisionWorks
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you haven't already registered you're missing out on a host of downloadable
resources, assembly ideas and sample modules from our programmes. Register at www.vision-works.net
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If you'd like to find out how VisionWorks could work for you call Sue Allen or Ruthie Alexander Morgan on 01249 409001, email sue@vision-works net or ruthie@vision-works.net or visit our website www.vision-works.net
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