Finding your North

Schools, students and even teachers are beginning a phase of transition into a new year, a new year group, new schools, new countries and even new curriculums.

Recently my better half mentioned about the importance of being able to. “Find your north”. Your guiding point or focus. Transition periods happen a lot in life and can be equal parts exciting and upsetting. It is all very newish for our four going on five year old who has moved before but barely remembers. This time will be a big transition for him too.

What is your students “North”? Your staffs? Your families? What is the unchanging focus that they and you should look to? Often we fall into routines…patterns methods of getting through our day that resemble an almost regimented schedule that when challenged by life causes us actual emotional stress.

Apparently moving house is one of the most stressful things in life…yet we do tend to try to control so many uncontrollable variables and try to make the new resemble the old when perhaps it shouldn’t.

When we are all in a state of transition…change I think having a true North is vital…,maybe we can lesson the stress on others by reminding them of theirs.