You’ll have seen us promoting our Reflection Journal, our resource that took off with a roar last year, and has been refreshed and revamped for a new 2020 edition. We genuinely love our journal - it is unique, and useful, and has The Heart School ‘written all over it’. Though in fact, the real beauty of it is that while our messages are strongly in there, it is actually YOU writing all over it, with your thoughts, ideas, ponderings and wonderings.
We're not all fans of the royals, but we should be fans of all mothers
Today I've read things about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, "not being OK" in these months postpartum and I'm feeling really disappointed.
Yes, she's now royalty, and yes I'm sure she does know she has a castle, but how do these things make her immune to the experiences new mums face? Why is she not allowed to not be OK?' Each thing I read that mocks her right to feel anything but #blessed makes me sad.
Show the joy - kindness is more than ‘luck’
“We’re very lucky”. These are the words we hear from teachers in beautiful ECE settings with a programme that offers equally beautiful care to young children. Perhaps this is the humility we tend to have here in Aotearoa, or down to the warmth and generous nature of kind teachers, but 'luck’ is only the tiniest part of the picture.