Making Connections GROWTH
Growth – ‘The Spirit of Character’
A St Andrews Education is an education that focuses on developing the whole child -academically, culturally, physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually. Our task is to develop learners, to foster growth, and to form character. At St Andrews we strive to intentionally develop young men and women who are caring, compassionate, ethical, moral, resilient, courageous, disciplined and respectful. It is a school that encourages its young people to value participation in a broad range of activities across an array of human endeavours, and in doing so helps them to discover who and whose they are, so that they may find meaning and purpose in their lives. The formation of character, then, at St Andrews is a part of every child’s experience so that they learn ‘to act justly, and to love kindness and to walk humbly with their God’.
Luke 2:40 ‘And the child increased in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and man’.
Source: Kotzur, T. (Principal) St Andrews Core Values
| PYP ATTITUDES | PYP LEARNER PROFILE | ||
| Respect | Independence | Principled | Reflective |
| The Name Jar, written and illustrated by Yangsook Choi |
Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten by Bob Graham | Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell illus by Helen Oxenbury | Zen Shorts by Jon Muth |
| PYP LIBRARY | PYP LIBRARY | PYP LIBRARY | PYP LIBRARY |
THE NAME JAR
PICTURE BOOKS
Burch, Regina G., Ember, Kathi. (2002), Following the rules : learning about respect, Character education, Huntington Beach, Calif. : Creative Teaching.
Danneberg, Julie., Love, Judith DuFour. (2008), First day jitters, New York : Scholastic.
Do, Anh., Do, Suzanne., Whatley, Bruce. (2011), The little refugee, Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin.
Higgins, Melissa. I am respectful, Capstone Press.
Niland, Deborah. (2007), Annie to the rescue, Camberwell, Vic. : Viking.
Parker, David., Fiammenghi, Gioia. (2004), I show respect, The best me I can be, New York : Scholastic.
Redlich, Ben. (2007), Cheeky Charlie!, Mascot, N.S.W. : Koala Books.
Wilson, Tony. (2007), Harry Highpants, Malvern, S. Aust. : Scholastic.
TEACHING RESOURCES
The Name Jar – Teaching Notes PDF
Picture Books – Teaching about Social and Emotional Learning
OTHER
Picture Books that teach about Character PDF
