In our Jigsaw Piece of ‘Dreams and Goals’ this term Years 3 and 4 have read some inspirational stories which have enabled the children to identify that we can achieve the Goals we set ourselves and achieve our Dreams…

The children in Year 3 have explored the story ‘Me Jane…’ by Patrick McDonnell, which is the lovely story about the lifelong dreams and goals of Jane Goodhall to care for and work with animals in Africa.  From an early age, Jane had a wonderous love of nature and  animals and a curiosity that was endless. She read lots of books about creatures of the world and studied hard until one day her lifelong dream and goal came true! This enabled the children to agree that if you believe in yourself and work hard at the goals you set yourself that your dreams can come true. Below are a few of our Year 3 children’s ‘Dreams and Goals‘.

In Year 4, the children have explored the term ‘resilience’ through reading about the lifelong Dream of Michael Jordan the great American Basketball player who the story ‘Salt in His Shoes’ by  Delores Jordan is based upon.

We found that despite Michael’s journey to being a basketball player being faced with some challenges, we found that he never gave up as the people around him, his family, friends and teachers, all believed in him, supported and encouraged him to be resilient. From this we identified that being resilient was not giving up at the first hurdle and that if we want to achieve the goals and dreams that we have identified for oursleves (To get married; Own a House; Have children; Learn to Drive; Be a Teacher; Be rich; Go to University…) that we too, like Michael Jordan, need to be resilient, believe in ourselves, persevere and keep on trying.