We promote 5 ways to wellbeing:

This term to help the children settle back into school we will be focusing on ‘Take Notice’ and ‘Connect’. Using the Olympic Team GB approach of togetherness each class will create a class ‘flag’ where each individual child will contribute to their class team. Here is a slideshow of each classes team flag. The children have really taken on the idea of being a team and how important it is to work together and support each other.

What Went Well Displays

At the end of each week to promote Wellbeing every class explores “What went well”. There is good research behind it as a valid way to improve wellbeing, to make you feel better about yourself and the world. It’s a form of positive thinking. It is a very specific exercise to recognize and acknowledge three things that went well this week – even if some other things went badly. As part of this we explore what character strengths were involved in these good things such as, curiosity, appreciation, creativity, humour or kindness. 

To welcome the children back after lockdown we have been doing lots of team building and wellbeing activities. Here are some photos of the children enjoying working together and exploring what it takes to be part of a team. 

A random act of kindness is a non-premeditated, inconsistent action designed to offer kindness towards the outside world. Please use the blog below to record any acts of kindness that either you have done or you have seen being done. Below are some ideas to get you going.

Below are some pictures of the Kindness displays being created around school to promote and encourage children to complete random acts of kindness to each other. Please click on the images to enlarge them.

Lockdown Rainbows

After being back at school following lockdown, we completed a whole school art project reflecting on our lockdown experiences. We looked back at our time at home and what it made us feel like.

We have focussed on 6 different emotions (based on the Inside Out characters) and have made a collage of each rainbow colour to represent an emotion that we felt over lockdown:

Red- Anger

Orange- Excitement

Yellow- Joy/happiness

Green- disgust

Blue- Sadness

Purple- Fear   

The children in each class have drawn pictures and written words to express these emotions. This has been a good outlet for them to talk about their experiences.