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This term our Jigsaw piece has been ‘Dreams and Goals‘.

We have been thinking about what skills enable us to achieve our goals, how we can help ourselves to achieve success and finding out what our individual learning strengths are.

First, we each chose an individual achievable challenge:-

• Learn the Macarena dance.
• Count to 20 in Chinese.
• Count in 2’s to 20 in French.
• Memorise the poem, ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’.

Next, we took part in a group challenge to make a dream bird.

Finally, we thought about the skills that were needed to achieve both these challenges.

During our individual challenge, we printed out instructions/words, watched a video, read and repeated … and practised, practised, practised!

The children were excited to perform to each other the following week.

Then the children all participated in a group challenge to make a dream bird.

The children were all able to work well in a group to create an end product. They communicated well and used each others skills, teamwork, problem solving and praise were displayed.  They were able to explain some of the ways they worked well in their group to create the end product and could express how they felt to be working as part of their group, using words such as successful, proud, achievement and happy.

     

 

   

 

Just look at their amazing dream bird creations!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 2 have completed their first Jigsaw piece in PSHE –  “Being Me In My World”.

Our curricular goal was to be able to explain why our behaviour can impact on other people in the class.

Our Jigsaw lessons are a safe learning environment, and we have some ‘ground rules’, that are included in our ‘Jigsaw Charter’ which we read together at the start of each lesson.

These include:-

The right to pass

Respect for each other

Confidentiality

During this term we have:-

• Identified some of our hopes and fears for this year.
• Began to understand rights and responsibilities for being a member of our class and school.
• Being able to listen to other people and contribute our own ideas about rewards and consequences.
• Understanding how following the Learning Charter will help us all learn.
• Recognising the choices we make and understand the consequences.

Each week the children have shown a growing understanding of how all these things impact on enabling us to feel happy, safe and able to learn.

They have all been confident to share their thoughts and feelings when we pass around Jigsaw Joe around the class for discussions.

During ‘calm me’ the children have enjoyed the time to calm their minds and bodies, some children have become amazing at this and are appreciative of this time.