Post-Election Blues and Advent Joy
Well, the results are in and after weeks of campaigning, tv debates, fact-checking, etc... ...Labour won a landslide victory with 83% of the vote… … in our school Elections (big thanks to colleague Josephine and her team of Election Elves). Nationally, things didn’t quite turn out the same, but what’s done is done and now we have to move on. With this week’s theme in our School Mission Programme combining the celebratory aspect of our end of term rewards assemblies with the theme of this 3rd week in Advent which is Joy , it’s good to remind ourselves that being joyful, truly joyful, is a conscious choice. It’s the attitude of someone who not only sees the glass as half full, but who also then decides to express their gratitude and thanks for the contents of that glass, either inwardly or outwardly. We re-joice , the “re” bit basically meaning that we actively engage in joyousness. For those who, like the majority of our students, ...