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Every year , Children’s Mental Health Week takes place during February. This year the theme is,
‘ Let’s connect’.
Connecting with others helps us to share experiences with people we trust and care about. Positive relationships give us opportunities to share our feelings and get someone else’s views on what we are experiencing. Positive relationships give us a sense of feeling and belonging.
The BIG QUESTIONS:
What is mental health?
How can we look after our own mental health?
How can we look after the mental health
of others ?
What can we do to keep our minds healthy?
After lengthy discussions the children were asked to come up with a Mental Health Action Plan…
And when all the hard work is done – chill time – with a purpose!
Colouring is a healthy way to relieve stress. It calms the brain and helps your body relax. This can improve sleep and fatigue while decreasing body aches, heart rate, respiration, and feelings of depression and anxiety.
A perfect way to end the day.
Year 3 were very luck to take part in a carbon monoxide workshop thanks to The Children’s University.
We found out lots of information about how dangerous carbon monoxide can be and what we should do if we suspect carbon monoxide is effecting anybody.
Carbon monoxide can make people feel dizzy, sleepy, give them headache, make them feel sick or make them confused. We found out about all of the different things in our homes that can cause carbon dioxide. We discovered that things like the cooker or boiler that we use every day can leak carbon monoxide into our home. We saw how a carbon monoxide detector can save people from the danger and we discovered where the best place in the house is to place this. Carbon monoxide detectors should be on every floor of a house and should be near appliances that could leak carbon monoxide to ensure we are as safe as possible.
We finished our session off with a quiz, we were really good at recalling all the information we had just learnt.
In our Jigsaw Piece of ‘Dreams and Goals’ this term Years 3 and 4 have read some inspirational stories which have enabled the children to identify that we can achieve the Goals we set ourselves and achieve our Dreams…
The children in Year 3 have explored the story ‘Me Jane…’ by Patrick McDonnell, which is the lovely story about the lifelong dreams and goals of Jane Goodhall to care for and work with animals in Africa. From an early age, Jane had a wonderous love of nature and animals and a curiosity that was endless. She read lots of books about creatures of the world and studied hard until one day her lifelong dream and goal came true! This enabled the children to agree that if you believe in yourself and work hard at the goals you set yourself that your dreams can come true. Below are a few of our Year 3 children’s ‘Dreams and Goals‘.
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- To be an Artist
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- To be an Electrician
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- To be in the Army
In Year 4, the children have explored the term ‘resilience’ through reading about the lifelong Dream of Michael Jordan the great American Basketball player who the story ‘Salt in His Shoes’ by Delores Jordan is based upon.
We found that despite Michael’s journey to being a basketball player being faced with some challenges, we found that he never gave up as the people around him, his family, friends and teachers, all believed in him, supported and encouraged him to be resilient. From this we identified that being resilient was not giving up at the first hurdle and that if we want to achieve the goals and dreams that we have identified for oursleves (To get married; Own a House; Have children; Learn to Drive; Be a Teacher; Be rich; Go to University…) that we too, like Michael Jordan, need to be resilient, believe in ourselves, persevere and keep on trying.
Year 4 this term have been learning the song ‘Looking in the Mirror’ with lyrics that help us to reflect upon not only our own lives but of those of our ancestors and the historic changes that have been made to enable our lives to be a little better today. To accompany this wonderful piece of music, we have been creating a little improvisation with our recorders and playing notes we have learnt in previous Music units of work in our own unique compositions.
Bravo Year 4…Encore!!!
Chrildren’s Mental Health Week activity:
This week, we have been celebrating children’s mental health and raising awareness for what makes us happy and recognising our own personal triggers that make us feel down. As recognition for what things make us happy, we created our own paper chain full of ideas. Some drawings included:
- Family
- Friends
- Reading
- School
- Teachers
- Food
- Sports
- Nature
- Animals
Here is our finished product!
As part of Safer Internet Day, Year 3 created posters to remind each other about staying safe.
We talked about what it means to be safe online and the things we can do to keep ourself safe.
We knew lots about who we could talk to and who can help us is we don’t feel safe. We know how important it is to keep information private and safe when we are online.
We also talked about the many different ways we are online such as on our computers, games consoles, phones and even our TV’s.
We know how to stay safe and can remind our friends to do the same.
Tuesday 7th February 2023 – Safer Internet Day
This week in the HUB, we were discussing how to keep ourselves safe online. We all love gaming and being online but we know that we have to be careful about the information we share. We scored highly when we completed our surveys and we knew which information was safe to share and which information was unsafe and we were able to talk about why that was.
6th – 10th February – Children’s Mental Health Week
This week, we have been reflecting on what makes us happy and thinking about this years theme of Lets Connect. We spent time talking with each other, to learn more about our friends and what makes each other happy. We played with new friends, sat with other children at lunch and learned about our shared favourite things whist playing parachute games. It’s all about the HAPPY in the HUB 🙂
Year 2 have been celebrating Safer Internet Day today. This morning, we had a special assembly with Mr Morgan to talk about being safe on the internet. This afternoon, we discussed different reasons people use the internet. Then we found friends in our class who use the internet for different purposes and discussed these. After discussing why we use the internet, we then thought about strategies to keep us save and shared these as a class.
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- Discussing why we use the internet!
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- Finding friends who use the internet for different purposes.
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- Completing our safer internet sheets!
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- Sharing our ideas of how to stay safe online!
For story time, we read the story of Smartie the Penguin and used what we have learned to help him to learn how to be safe on the internet.
In Year 2, children coloured in a paper person to represent themselves and their individuality..
Children then sat with a person who they don’t usually sit with in the classroom.
Their challenge was to find out what similarities and differences they had with that person.
They listened carefully to each other and were fantastic at taking turns to speak.
Children then fed back to the rest of the class.
