September 1

CAT partners

Cross Age Tutoring

Our CAT buddies for 2015 are a wonderful group of year one students and their teacher Mrs Kate Monaco. As the older tutors this year it is our responsibility to model responsible learning when we support our partners with different tasks.

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We had recently helped Kate’s class with their week of doing Random acts of Kindness. They explained to us that showing kindness was easy and that being random meant no one has asked you do be nice and caring, you just did it. It was fun to be caring for others and making people feel okay. We discussed the things that being kind meant and what we could do.

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They had come up with an idea to make a bookmark that advertised random acts of kindness and had lovely words to make the reader feel good. Then the CAT buddies would place them secretly in various books in the library. As the borrower began to read a book they would get a lovely surprise. We thought that was a beautiful and thoughtful idea so we were eager to help.

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Our CAT buddies had a lot of kind words to write on these bookmarks and we had fun decorating them to make them eye catching and attractive. Tying the ribbons was challenge but we got there.

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Quietly we were able to hide them in some library books. We hope the people who found them had a great day. It costs nothing to be kind to someone and like a boomerang kindness finds its way back to you. Here’s a thought, many years ago when Kate was a student in year three, she had a kind teacher called Ellen and now she has returned (just like a boomerang) as a teacher and kindly let us work with her students.