Virtues

=**Honesty.** = =** Respect. ** = ** Respect is caring for and valuing ourselves and others. ** =**Self Discipline. **=
 * In 2002 a Virtues programme was introduced to Pukekohe Hill School. **** Virtues have been described as the life skills of character and a means for schools to be safe and caring place. ** **Virtues are promoted in class at assemblies and through newsletters. **
 * Being Honest is being open, trustworthy and truthful. **
 * **Say what you mean and mean what you say**
 * **Make promises you can keep**
 * **Admit your mistakes**
 * **Refuse to lie, cheat or steal**
 * **Tell the truth tactfully**
 * **Be true to your self and do what you know is right.**
 * We are practicing respect when we:**
 * **Speak courteously to everyone **
 * **Take special care of other people's belongings **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Honour the rules of our family, school and country **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Treat others as you want to be treated **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Expect respect for our body and rights **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Self Discipline **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **means self control.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * We are showing self discipline when:**
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We speak and act calmly when we are hurt or angry **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We get things done in an orderly efficient way **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We create routines for ourselves **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We do what is expected without people having to watch over us **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We do things on time **

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Enthusiasm.** = <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Enthusiasm is being inspired and full of spirit. ** We are showing <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">enthusiasm <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> when we: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is being cheerful and happy. It is being excited about something, looking forward to it. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enjoy looking forward to something **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think of imaginative ways of doing things **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Smile, laugh and enjoy what we do **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do things wholeheartedly **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enjoy the wonders of life **

=**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Responsibility. **= When you make a mistake you fix it and you give your best to any job. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> We are practising <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> responsibility <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">when we: ** =**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Consideration **= It is thinking about how your actions will a ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ffect them and caring about how they will feel ** **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. We show <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">consideration <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> when we: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Responsibility means others can depend on you. You are accountable for your actions.
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take agreements seriously **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are willing to do our bit **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Admit our mistakes **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do the very best we can **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are willing to fix our mistakes **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Consideration is being kind and thoughtful about other people and their feelings.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Respect other people's feelings and needs**
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Consider other's needs as important as your own **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stop and think about how our actions will affect others **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Put yourself in other people's shoes **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think of little things to bring others happiness **

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Co-Operation** = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Co-operation is working together with a willingness to respect others and to follow rules. It is joining in with others to do something that might be difficult to do alone. We show co-operation when we: ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Forgiveness** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Forgiveness is giving someone another chance when they have done something wrong, and knowing that eve ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** ryone makes mistakes. We show forgiveness when we: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Work together but respect others feelings**
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Never be afraid to ask for help if you find something difficult to do on your own. **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Respect other feelings. **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Accept people without criticism**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take responsibility for our own mistakes **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Giving someone another chance when they do something wrong. **

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Friendliness** = <span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Friendliness is being a friend, taking an interest in other people and going out of our way to make others feel welcome or to make a stranger to feel at home.**
 * We show** **<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">friendliness ** **when we:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Smile and greet people**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Get to know someone and let them get to know us**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Show an interest in others**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**We are caring when a friend needs us**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**We are friendly to people who look and act differently**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Help others**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Make others feel welcome**
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notice when others need a friend and offer friendship **

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Helpfulness** = **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Helpfulness is being of service. It is doing useful things for people, such as things they cannot do for themselves, or they do not have time to do or just little things to make life easier. It is important to be helpful to ourselves too. **
 * We are showing<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> helpfulness when we:**
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notice when someone needs help and help them. **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do a sevice without being asked. **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Listen to someone who needs to talk. **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Care for our own needs. **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ask for help when we need it. **

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Peacefulness** = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm. It is getting very quiet and looking at things so you can understand them. It is being fair to others and yourself** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are showing ** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Peacefulness** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">when we: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use peaceful language when we are angry **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Speak gently and respectfully**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Avoid harming anyone**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Find peaceful solutions to problems**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Appreciate differences**

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Patience** = that things will turn out right. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tolerance** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Tolerance is to accept differences. It is knowing that other people have feelings, needs, hopes and dreams.** = = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Commitment** = It is about making decisions and folowing through with them. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Patience is being calm and tolerant when things are difficult, it is quiet hope and trust
 * We can all show<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> patience **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">....
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By being willing to wait **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Setting goals and sticking to them **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Doing something now that will help in the future **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are tolerant when mistakes are made **
 * We are showing** ** tolerance ** **when we:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Make others feel included by being friendly**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Don't complain when uncomfortable conditions cannot be helped **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Change ourselves instead of others **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Accept people the way they are **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Commitment is a willingness to give your all to a friendship, task or something you believe in.
 * We are showing** **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">commitment when we:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Keep agreements we make**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think before making a promise **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Give 100% to everything **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make decisions confidently **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are faithful to the people we care about **

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Orderliness** = <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Orderliness is being neat and living with a sense of harmony. It is being organised and having a place for things when you need them. It is planning something so that it works, doing it step by step instead of going around in circles.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * We are showing orderliness when we:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**have a place for each of our things**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">put things away in the same place **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">have a plan before beginning a job **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">solve problems step by step **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">appreciate the beauty and order of nature **

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Unity** = We are showing <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> unity <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">when we: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unity helps people work and live together peacefully. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">


 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Treat all people as members of one human family **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See the gifts in differences **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Refuse to join in when others express prejudice **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Solve conflict through listening and finding solutions **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Care for the earth and all living things **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Act like a peacemaker wherever you go **

=<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Flexibility ** = <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">** Flexibility is being open to change We are showing flexibility when we:**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Learn from our mistakes**
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are willing to change bad habits **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Don't insist on always getting our own way **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can adjust when something unexpected happens **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go with the flow. trust the unexpected **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Affirmation: I am flexible. I keep changing for the better. I look for new ways to do things. I welcome surprises. **

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> = =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Purposefulness **= <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**You are acting** **purposefuly** **when you have a goal you are working toward. We are showing** **purposefulness** **when we:** > Have a clear vision of what we want to accomplish ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** __Affirmation__: I am purposeful. I am clear about what I am doing and why. I stay focused on my goals. I know I can accomplish great things. ** = = =**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Service **= **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Service <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> is giving to others and wanting to make a difference in their lives. It is looking for ways to be helpful instead of waiting to be asked. You are demonstrating <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">service <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> when you give any job your best effort and you make a real contribution. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Focus on a goal and know why we are doing it**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Dothings one at a time and finish what we start**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Persevere until we get results.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are showing <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">service <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> when we: **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Look for opportunities to be of service to others **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think of thoughtful things to do to help our family and friends **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work with enthusiasm **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Don't wait to be asked when something needs doing. **