30 seconds

 

https://www.upworthy.com/teachers-rule-about-something-you-cant-change-in-30-seconds-is-a-lesson-for-all-ages

Who do you think the person is on the picture? What are they doing?

Natalie Ringold is a teacher who has become famous after delivering a simple message to her class. 

Parts of the message are on the image above, but some words are missing. Can you work out what the message is?

The message is "Something you can't change in 30 seconds."

What do you think this message is about? 

There is a video you can watch in the link. In the video Natalie says " "If someone can't change something about themselves in 30 seconds or less, then you shouldn't be mentioning it to them."

- what does Natalie mean? Can you think of things a person can change about themselves in 30 seconds? (shoes untied, fly on someone's jumper..)

- what can a person not change about themselves in 30 seconds? (hair colour, hair style, skin colour, family, body working differently

 She also squeezes a tube of toothpaste to illustrate her message - 

why do you think she does that? What is she trying to show with the toothpaste?

Natalie says, "Your words have power. your words matter. If you walk out of this room spreading kindness to the people around you, spreading love to the people around you, that is what truly makes a difference." - 

- what does that mean?
- how can we spread kindness in our school?

Watch the video and discuss:

-"Your words have power" what does this mean?
- as she talks, Natalie squeezes a tube of toothpaste and then tries to get the paste back in the tube. It becomes messy and you can't put it back. What is she trying to show here?
- "You try to apologise, you try to take the words back, and you try to undo what you said, undo what you did. But it's something they couldn't change about themselves and do it gets very messy. You can't totally take those words back, you can't totally fix it."- do you agree? Can you give an example?
- Natalie says she wants her students to remember this for the rest of their lives - why? Do you think they will?
- How do we talk to people and make people feel at our school? 
- Why is this about no outsiders?
- Which British value is this about?



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