Year 6 welcomed visitors from a local NHS Mental Health team who encouraged us to think about our emotions and personal coping strategies. Although all of the Year 6’s are showing brilliant resilience and rising to the challenges of the year, it was excellent to reflect on our ‘strategies toolkit’ for times when we feel overwhelmed, confused or nervous.
Each class had a fantastic time and came away feeling positive and well-equipped!
Nursery have been using mirrors to see what colour eyes and hair they have before completing their amazing self-portraits.
Year 6 came together as a year group to learn about diversity, individuality and the impact racism can have. We discussed a range of scenarios and reflected on how this might affect how someone feels- learning how the way we communicate with each other matters. In groups, we worked to create poems on this topic using creativity and teamwork.
Year 5 had a great time with their Year 2 buddies on Friday designing odd socks as part of curriculum day.
They worked hard together and showed good teamwork skills.
In RHE lessons Year 2 have been looking at different emotions and how their body feels when they experience each emotion. They each chose one emotion and created a feelings monster to show that emotion. They thought carefully about the expression on their monster and used this to decide what their eyes, nose and mouth might look like.
In RSE today, Year 3 looked at what it means to be proud of ourselves and they shared some of the things that they are proud of.
Then, they identified what others are good at and gave compliments to one another. They discussed how it made them feel to receive a compliment. Common feelings were happy, calm, valued.
As a class, they discussed what self esteem means and thought about what high and low self esteem looks like.
As part of the lesson, Year 3 read some positive affirmations that could help boost their self esteem: “I am a good friend.”, “I am smart and capable”, “I am proud of who I am”, “I am unique and special”.
They discussed the power of the word ‘yet’ when thinking about what we can and can’t do e.g. I can’t ride a bike YET!
To end the lesson, they each wrote 3 goals of things they would like to achieve that would make them feel proud. They made these into a paperchain.
In RHE lessons Year 2 have been learning about celebrating themselves and others. They have discussed what makes a good compliment and then spent some time writing compliments for their classmates so everyone was able to take home a page full of positive messages!
Year 1 have been helping to keep our school tidy during busy time. Some children chose to use litter pickers to pick up any rubbish that they saw.
During our first full week back in school, year 5 have been campaigning for their school council representatives. We learned about democracy and how we keep things fair. The children worked together on their campaigns and made compelling speeches. Well done to all our school councilors who were elected on polling day!
This week, we have been exploring sun safety. In RHE, we have been learning about how to keep safe in the sun and the effects of UV rays. In science, we learnt about processes involved with testing sunscreen and used UV beads to test the effectiveness of sunscreens with different factors. It helped us to understand the importance of wearing sun cream.
