“Cultivating Happiness” is not just a learning project
International Day of Happiness (March 20) was officially announced at the United Nations Conference in 03. This is considered a special day of the year - the spring equinox, when the sun is near the equator, the length of Equal day and night symbolize the balance and harmony of the universe. For this reason, the International Day of Happiness also conveys the message: Balance and harmony are one of the keys to happiness.
With the mission of the pioneering school in integrated education, humanity and harmony with nature, the organizers of the "Cultivating Happiness" program believe that Happiness is a necessary value to nurture the soul. students, teachers, staff and the entire Hanoi Adelaide School community. Nurturing happiness and taking care of mental health for students, teachers, parents... is done every day through different learning activities and most clearly through Learning Projects. - practice on Happiness during school years.
Continuing the message "Happiness is created by yourself" from the previous school year, the learning project "Cultivating Happiness" for the 2023-2024 school year is an opportunity for all members at the School to focus within themselves. to build positive connections with yourself and with loved ones. Throughout the project, students take introductory lessons to learn about the components of happiness and share their happiness with everyone. The children also prepared small gifts for their parents.
The happy learning project takes place annually at Hanoi Adelaide School.
In particular, parents and students spread and cultivate happiness through physical, mental and intellectual activities. All learning activities are the combination and harmony of Body-Mind-Mind, balance and harmony just like the message of Happy Day "Balance and harmony are one of the keys to bringing to happiness". It seems that simple activities like playing tug of war together, picking up stuffed animals, or simply sitting and chatting together... are normal. However, when we witness parents and students having time to spend with each other and understand each other to complete challenges, we see that happiness is simple.
Participating in a running race with her child, a parent who finished almost last shared, "It turns out that happiness is simply being able to overcome yourself with your child to complete the race, not necessarily winning." ”.
Representative of the organizing committee of the program "Cultivating Happiness" - Ms. Nguyen Thi Hien - deputy leader of Nextgen, manager of the Happiness learning project at Hanoi Adelaide School shared: "Smiles , the emotions and burst of happiness of parents and children during activities is probably what makes me happiest. We believe that happiness will continue to be cultivated, watered and increasingly developed by the strong connection of students, parents and the school, connecting together, learning together, growing together and growing together. happy".
"Cultivating happiness" is also an opportunity to connect families
Participating in the learning project "Cultivating Happiness", almost 100% of families will participate in at least one physical activity with their children such as tug of war, running competition, ball throwing competition... Many families not only have 1-2 members participate but also have extended family to participate in the competition and cheer.
With the message "Cultivate happiness", the project brought many emotions to participants.
Sharing with the reporter, Ms. Tan - the mother of 5th grade student Gia Han confided: "It's been a long time since I've been away from my phone, work and had so much time to play with my children like this. She and her child are much more connected." As for Mr. Duy, parent of 1st grade Thien An, this is an extremely meaningful activity for him and his family. Seeing his children playing and excitedly participating in activities makes him feel very excited, dispelling all fatigue after a busy period of work.
Ms. Quynh Chi (whose child is in 4th grade at the school) commented that the "Cultivating Happiness" experience program was very fun and the children were very excited. In particular, when witnessing a friend crying because she missed her mother, other friends ran to comfort and encourage her. She realizes that participating in these activities will be an opportunity for them to learn how to share and love each other. The children have learned SEL (Social Emotional Education) at school. Linh Phuong's daughter herself has learned and shared a lot about this SEL subject with her. And when participating in the program, I saw my children sharing the feeling of victory, as well as understanding that the other person had negative emotions... I realized that my children have been learning and will learn how to grow up through these activities. learning projects like this!
"Cultivating happiness" has left different impressions on each student, each parent, each family... However, the impact of this learning project will certainly help each person's definition of happiness become simpler and the journey to cultivating happiness is not difficult or far away!
Learning projects with a variety of topics are implemented by Hanoi Adelaide School throughout the school year. Readers interested in learning about meaningful learning projects can refer to information at: https://has.edu.vn/
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