Mental Heath

Hi Bloggers

On Gumboot Friday New Zealand supports mental health.

Incase you don’t know what Gumboot Friday is, it’s about supporting mental health.

This is the second year they have done it.

They chose Gumboots because the people who have mental health problems,

for them it’s like they’re going through mud.

They have raised $315,352.99 towards mental health. You can still donate.

So for Gumboot Friday we made cards to deliver to random people around the school area.

The cards were to make people feel good about themselves.

The messages were like ‘Man I feel like you could light up my day’.

So we split into groups of about 8-9.

And we each put about 3 cards each in the letter boxes.

The card idea came about through the Healthy Puketapapa Student Questionnaire.

30 Te Waka Ako students did it. One of them suggested we do the card drop.

So the senior teachers decided to do them. That is the thought of how it started.

This also matches with our inquiry topic HAUORA - WELLBEING.

I think that this is great for our community to understand that they are great and so are you.

I think this is a great idea to help people with bad mental

health because they can do bad things in the future.

( I don’t want to offend anyone with mental health problems)

Cya later Bloggers.