Seabury Middle School Student Mission Statement 2020-2021

 This is the mission statement that our amazing middle schoolers wrote for this school year:

During the 2020-2021 school year, Seabury Middle School students will develop, recognize, and pursue our goals. We will ask thoughtful questions, indulge in our passions, use our strengths, develop our talents, work toward having grit to overcome difficulties, and explore our own identities. As students, we will try to think creatively and attempt to be open-minded and flexible. We will love learning and share that love while also seeking joy even when studying subjects or topics that aren’t our favorites. We will strive to be members of a kind, helpful, and supportive community.

We will do all of this in order to take pride in ourselves, expand our intelligence, be better equipped to face obstacles or difficulties, improve as people, work toward being our best selves, and make progress toward being outstanding members of a global community.

During these unprecedented times, our goal is to learn no matter where we are, whether in school or at home.

Community is a Feeling

During middle school (in any year) creating a community of learners is one of our top priorities, and we spend the first weeks teaching students the tools they need to do school and building that community.

During distance learning, that has taken new forms. This post shares some of our activities and some of our process as we come together to learn and grow and challenge one another.

Seabury Middle School Student 2020-2021 Mission Statement

We worked in groups to draft Seabury Middle School Student Mission Statements for this school year. They will finalize their mission statement next week, and we will share the results with you.

This deliberate and careful task asked the student to collaborate, identify their collective aims, and determine which words best depicted their values and goals for the year. Mrs. Wollum, head of school, helped students see the import of careful language selection, serving as an expert for this assignment.

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Virtual class photo (totally optional, so not all are pictured):

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Core Values Memes

We also asked students to work in small teams to create memes that depicted the middle school's core values. Here are some of their memes and definitions (more to come in a future post!):

Empathy: Empathy is about other people and how they are feeling. It is about thinking about and understanding other people’s feelings.

Agency: Agency is the capacity of an individual to make their own choices.

Grit: "Run and Duck": Grit means that you just keep going no matter what happens, that you are resilient.

Love of Learning

Community

Creativity

Just smile!

It makes everything a bit better.