Remember Your New Years Resolution?

Remember your New Years resolution? Just a distant memory now? Don’t worry, according to the New York Times one third of people break their resolutions by the end of January and four out of five will eventually be broken.

Now that we have finished the first term of 2010 it is a good time to take stock and re-evaluate goals, both personally and for your OSCAR programme. Many people make broad resolutions, but the key to achieving them lies in creating small, manageable goals that represent stepping stones to what you want to achieve.

Stuck for ideas? Goals for your programme could include serving healthier food for afternoon tea, developing a leadership programme for older children, or ensuring that all staff members attend professional development opportunities at least once per term. Discuss goal setting at your next staff meeting and formulate an action plan as to how these will be achieved.

Get the whole programme involved by sitting down with the children to see what they would like to aim towards for the programme. It might be that they would like to purchase an air hockey table, learn hip hop dancing, or take an overnight trip during the school holiday programme. Make a plan together about how these goals could be achieved (if cost is a factor brainstorm some creative ways to fundraise) and take the first steps to making the goal a reality!

Marnie