Dear Parents,

Starting next week, we are going to have the children start a gratitude diary.

It is very easy to get caught up in the sadness and frustration of all the things we can’t do at the moment, but by shifting our mindset and focusing on the things that we can do and are very thankful for, it really does wonders for mood and resilience.

We would actually like to encourage you and your whole family to get involved with sharing things that you are all grateful for, for example at the dinner table at night, or you might make it part of a bedtime conversation. You might like to consider having a family gratitude diary that in months and years to come you can reflect back on.

If possible, we need all the children to have a separate notebook/blank diary where they will do their writing each day. We’ve also made the suggestion of making their own book to write in if they like. They can do a title page that says ‘Gratitude Diary’ and then each day they put in the date and write one or more sentences about something they are thankful for. We are going to be doing this as a class each morning, but we are also happy for the children to write in it at other times.

If they could have their notebook ready to go by next Tuesday morning that would be great.

Thank again for your support.

Julia and Carla