Growth Mindset

This is our Thought of the Week. On Monday 20 January, Mr Bisley spoke to us about having a healthy, growth mindset.

He showed us a video about a girl who thought time and time again that she could not draw. This meant that she had an unhealthy, fixed mindset .Her teacher told her to draw a dot, so she did. After, she told her to sign it. The next day, she noticed that it had been framed on the wall in the Art classroom. This encouraged the young girl to persevere with art and soon enough, there was a whole gallery full of dots, this taught the girl to always persevere and to never give up, despite the challenges.

Towards the end of the assembly, Mr Bisley shared some quotes from well-known celebrities, for instance:

Michael Jordan - He said, “I have missed 9000 shots in my career and lost almost 300 games. 26 times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again.

Thomas Edison once said, “I haven’t failed, I have just found 1000 ways that it won’t work.”

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know or even if you fail – what matters is that you try.

Thank you for listening to our Thought of the Week.

 We hope you have a wonderful weekend.