Nothing happens overnight and most things of value require effort. Lots of effort. Developing thinking and problem solving skills takes both time and effort. We incorporate that into our lessons.

Tap on strategies that work and personalise them. We read widely to bring our students strategies from various sources and then work with them to make it work for them. Every student is different so we make things different to fit them.

Practice makes progress so we celebrate the effort and the milestones along the way. Every student starts somewhere and takes time to find their groove. We always look for that room for improvement while celebrating the progress.

Making mistakes along the way is perfectly normal. It teaches our students valuable lessons of self-worth, reflection, responding instead of reacting, managing changing realities, picking themselves up and reframing their mindsets for success.

The only constant in life is change so we come up with short term plans that are tweaked along the way towards achieving a long term goal to accommodate life and our students’ progress.