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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Primary 7 will be heading along to Falkirk High School later today to work with the music department.\u00a0 They had to choose a song to reflect success and ambition and I was making suggestions out of my back catalogue which were summarily dismissed!\u00a0 One of my suggestions was this song. I do enjoy music and, like many folks, have accounts with Amazon and Spotify.\u00a0 What I do tend to do though is listen to the same songs and playlists over and over again to the great annoyance of my children as I tend to choose songs that I like to sing along to.\u00a0 One of the songs that is on my playlist is the Hothouse Flowers version of this song and as I was looking for\u00a0it I stumbled across the fact that this song was also part of the soundtrack for Cool Runnings which tells the story of the first Jamaican Bobsled team and their journey to the winter Olympics in Calgary.\u00a0 A film about self confidence and belief in your abilities and as an added bonus has John Candy in a starring role!<\/p>\n<p>The sentiment of the film tied up neatly with a conversation I was having with an instructor at PGL Dalguise. We have just returned from a brilliant week at our residential experience in Dalguise.\u00a0 I’m sure that you will have seen a selection of photos coming through our twitter stream and many more will be uploaded shortly.\u00a0 We are very proud of our children who abseiled and ziplined, climbed up and fell down and supported and encouraged each other to push themselves into challenging experiences. As I was speaking\u00a0with one of\u00a0the instructors\u00a0they felt a large part of their job was to support children who say\u00a0“I can’t” when they mean “I don’t want to” – or “I don’t know how”.\u00a0 The residential experience has a core theme of Challenge by Choice which encourages children to push themselves a little bit further than they feel comfortable doing. \u00a0And the big question for all of us is how to effectively support our children to do just that? \u00a0 We are all pretty good at laying out\u00a0the things we are no good at, \u00a0and find it much more challenging to share the things we\u00a0are good at.\u00a0 I suppose it’s part of not wanting to seem boastful or big headed but it does mean that too many of us have a more negative view of our abilities than we should.<\/p>\n<p>As a school we are beginning to think abut ways to address this with our own children. \u00a0Bounceback\u00a0 resilience education is one way we have been attempting to do this and I have written about this before. \u00a0Next year we will be looking to develop our understanding of a growth mindset. \u00a0This is based on the work of Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology in America. \u00a0You may have seen the beginnings of some growth mindset work around our school if you have been in recently and <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.classdojo.com\/\">ClassDojo<\/a> has some really good short videos to help explain the concept to children too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Developing a Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hiiEeMN7vbQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Primary 7 will be heading along to Falkirk High School later today to work with the music department.\u00a0 They had to choose a song to reflect success and ambition and I was making suggestions out of my back catalogue which were summarily dismissed!\u00a0 One of my suggestions was this song. I do enjoy music … <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/2017\/03\/23\/cool-runnings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cool Runnings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headteachers-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}