Category : PSHCE

Year 1 have been discussing random acts of kindness week.

We talked about how being kind makes others feel. We think when we are kind we make others happy.

We have discussed what types of things we can do to be kind to each other and found that lots of them are things we do because we are kind children .

We decided to do things like hold doors for people, play with children who have nobody to play with and say nice things to each other.

We are going to make lots of people smile during random acts of kindness week.

As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, Year 5 have being discussing how they have grown emotionally. We talked about how we have grown in confidence, new things that we have tried recently, fears we used to have but have now overcome and things we have achieved. We then created a growing together wall, where we recorded everything we discussed.

This week in PSHE, Year 1 had lots of fun.

We started our lesson with playing pass the smile. We really enjoyed copying the smile and then passing it around our circle. Smiling at each other made us feel happy.

We then listened to our special chime. This makes us feel relaxed and ready for the lesson. We listen to the sound until it stops. We hear it more clearly when we close our eyes.

We all tried to stretch ourselves as high as we can. Some of us wanted to stretch as high as the trees!

This week year 1 were challenged to make a stretch flower. They had to use skills they had not used before together with skills some of us are still perfecting.

We had to colour, cut and wind things to make a stretchy flower.

The first thing we had to do was colour our flower before we cut it out.

Then we attached a pipe cleaner to the back before we wound the pipe cleaner a pencil to make our flower stretchy.

We felt really proud of our flowers and learning new skills.

In PSHE this week, year 1 have been discussing what they are successful at.

We started our lesson with Jigsaw Jack. We passed him around our circle carefully and quietly. We had to work together as a class to achieve this goal.

We talked about goals we have achieved. Lots of children in year 1 did not think we had achieved any goals until we talked about the skills we now have that we didn’t have before.

Lots of children in Year 1 can tie their shoes, fasten their coats or even ride a bike.

We took it in turns to tell the class about the achievements we are proud of.

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Year 6 really had some really thoughtful discussions in their learning about respectful relationships this afternoon. There were thought provoking discussions that helped them learn a lot about how to show respect and what good relationships look like. Also how relationships evolve overtime.

by Parker and Oliver 

It is important to be safe online because there are chances of leaking your personal information all over the internet if you are not careful. This is why people have to be very careful when choosing passwords or what to say if you were on something like voice chat. People have to remember that not all people are who they say they are online and to keep safe you have to keep your identity concealed and always think before you do something.

Tell a trusted adult or guardian if something happened online as they will most likely know what to do in a tricky situation. As digital leaders, we believe that you should never reveal anything about yourself.

In our PSHE lesson today, we looked at bullying and discussed how our words and actions can hurt others. We discussed bullying and the different types of bullying i.e. sexism, racism, homophobia, rumour spreading, cyber-bullying, name calling and verbal and physical bullying.

We discussed ways in how we can deal with bullying to make the situation better. For example, telling an adult, blocking the person if the bullying is occurring online and not retaliating. We also discussed ways in which a bullying situation could be made worse. For example joining in with bullying or not telling an adult if you witness a bullying incident.

Finally, we talked about the differences between direct and indirect bullying and examples of both types.

The children then worked in groups to come up with their own bullying scenario and then six ways to help solve the scenario and six ways that the situation could be made worse. With their scenario and reasons, the children created their own snakes and ladders game.

We finished our lessons on bullying by playing our games.