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Our school participates in the FISH PHILOSOPHY. This philosophy was developed by the Fish Market in 
Seattle, Washington.  Employees of the fish market felt that their work was boring and not important.  
The employees did not find their job enjoying.  They decided that they wanted to work in a 
place where people wanted to come to work and wanted to shop.  Employees of the fish market developed 
a place where they enjoy working.  Customers enjoy shopping and enjoy watching the employees in action.  
The principles of the FISH philosophy are also part of our class rules:


Be There        Make Their Day        Choose Your Attitude        Have Fun



Be There - The glue in our humanity is in being fully present for one another. Being there also is a 
great way to practice wholeheartedness and fight burnout, for it is those halfhearted tasks you perform 
while juggling other things that wear you out. You can multi-task with "stuff, " but you need to 
"be there" for people. 


Make Their Day - When you "make someone's day" (or moment) through a small kindness or 
unforgettable engagement, you turn even routine encounters into special memories. The world becomes 
a better place the moment you act on an intention to serve another.

 
Choose Your Attitude - When you look for the worst you will find it everywhere. 
When you learn you have the power to choose your response to what life brings, you can look 
for the best and find opportunities you never imagined possible. If you find your self with an 
attitude that is not what you want it to be, you can choose a new one. The attitude you have 
right now is the one you are choosing. Is it the one you want?


Have Fun - Work made fun gets done, especially when we choose to do serious tasks in 
a lighthearted spontaneous way. Play is not just an activity,it's a state of mind that brings 
new energy to the tasks at hand and sparks creative solutions.



THE "MES" FISH SONG
I'm gonna catch a fish,
You're gonna catch one, too,
A kind gesture, be there, make their day, choose your attitude take time to 
play today
Good and bad things happen everyday. Yeah, you catch a fish today
Yeah, you catch a fish today.

I'm gonna catch a fish,
You're gonna catch one, too,
We're going fishing now, come on this is how, do things big or small it 
doesn't cost at all
Grant a wish and you've caught a fish. SEE you catch a fish today, 
Yeah, you catch a fish today.