Gumboot Friday
Hi! On Tuesday the 9th of April at 12:00, one hour before lunch, the entire senior syndicate of Waikowhai Primary School posted cards we created ourselves that have positive messages on them in random mailboxes and they all said ‘supporting mental health’ on the back. But what is mental health? Mental health in all about how healthy your’s and other people's minds are. We did all of that because 4 days before that, on Friday the 5th of April, it was Gumboot Friday which is about mental health. The person who created Gumboot Friday called it ‘Gumboot Friday’ because when you have low mental health, it is like your brain is wading through thick mud and you need gumboots to wade through thick mud. On Gumboot Friday you are to wear gumboots if you are able and you want to wear them. When people have low mental health they tend to feel gloomy and you can cheer them up by saying something positive and kind which is why we wrote positive things on card to send out to people. The cards were colourful and when we finished, we decorated them with smiley faces, people standing around the Earth, hearts and other things that made people feel better (the people standing around the Earth were representing the world as one).
The card that I made!
(it says: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. I hope this makes you feel better. Senior syndicate)
The idea came from the from one of the students at our school (it was Neeve’s idea to make and post the cards in mailboxes) who had been chosen to do the Healthy Puketapapa Student Questionnaire. This also relates to our inquiry topic (Hauora-wellbeing) because they are both about how you feel and your thinking. Above all of this, my opinion is that people should celebrate Gumboot Friday more often, every year even maybe.
Bye-bye!
Hi! On Tuesday the 9th of April at 12:00, one hour before lunch, the entire senior syndicate of Waikowhai Primary School posted cards we created ourselves that have positive messages on them in random mailboxes and they all said ‘supporting mental health’ on the back. But what is mental health? Mental health in all about how healthy your’s and other people's minds are. We did all of that because 4 days before that, on Friday the 5th of April, it was Gumboot Friday which is about mental health. The person who created Gumboot Friday called it ‘Gumboot Friday’ because when you have low mental health, it is like your brain is wading through thick mud and you need gumboots to wade through thick mud. On Gumboot Friday you are to wear gumboots if you are able and you want to wear them. When people have low mental health they tend to feel gloomy and you can cheer them up by saying something positive and kind which is why we wrote positive things on card to send out to people. The cards were colourful and when we finished, we decorated them with smiley faces, people standing around the Earth, hearts and other things that made people feel better (the people standing around the Earth were representing the world as one).
The idea came from the from one of the students at our school (it was Neeve’s idea to make and post the cards in mailboxes) who had been chosen to do the Healthy Puketapapa Student Questionnaire. This also relates to our inquiry topic (Hauora-wellbeing) because they are both about how you feel and your thinking. Above all of this, my opinion is that people should celebrate Gumboot Friday more often, every year even maybe.
Bye-bye!
