{"id":30078,"date":"2020-12-01T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/?p=30078"},"modified":"2020-12-10T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:43:59","slug":"giving-thanks-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/giving-thanks-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving thanks at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
Boys at Abingdon Prep have been thinking about all the things that they are grateful for rather than focusing on what they cannot do because of Covid-19. They have used their ideas to create a festive atmosphere, writing them on a Christmas bauble which they then decorated and hung on a tree in the school foyer. Thanks ranged from being grateful for having a home and a bed, a lovely brother, for being on earth, for having a pet, coping with Covid and lockdown to appreciating beautiful sunrises, the kindness in the world and for art supplies!<\/p>\n
The project was the idea of the school nurses who encourage the boys to practise mindfulness and to look after their mental health, it was also part of a school initiative to encourage plastic free Christmas decorations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 December 2020 Boys at Abingdon Prep have been thinking about all the things that they are grateful for rather than focusing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n