Summer Sparklers: Questions for Young Minds
School pupils and students entering their next academic year in September have a right to a journey of discovery with the wind at their back and sun on smiling faces as they build skills and confidence for the change that their future needs.
Opportunity favours the prepared, so if you’re teacher, parent, aunt or uncle to young people, take a few moments to ask a couple of questions as they head towards the summer holidays.
- How bright could you make your ‘Super North Star’ goal?
Much of TYF’s work with schools and young people helps them build skills for a brighter, kinder future and we know it’s powerful to have clear goals around things that you most want to achieve. Take a few minutes to watch this video by Floyd Woodrow from TYF partner Compass for Life and start shaping a ‘Super North Star’ goal for something that you already know you want to do, or for a skill to build that’ll give you more fun inside or outside school. Then, complete this, imagining that you had all the superpowers to make it happen:
‘If I knew that I couldn’t fail, and had help from all the people I needed to support me, my Super North Star Goal would be to …………………..’
2. What would it be like to Grow Food for Good?
We know that our bodies and our brains grow from the food and liquids we put into our stomachs, and that the food we eat comes from the land and oceans around us. Consider what’s happening to nature and then, imagining that you had the same superpowers that you had in Q1, think about the one change that you’d make about the way that your school or family buys, prepares or uses food, then complete this:
‘My boldest and brightest goal to change the way that we approach food would be to…….
Tweet the answers with the tags #MillionMinds @ImpactWales @GrinGreen @TYFAdventure and we’ll follow up with information on how to get involved and make a Million Minds happen.
