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Year 4 Mental Health Week
Mental Health Week update: in Year 4, we have been exploring the different ways we can express our feelings by recording them in a journal this week. It didn’t matter whether we wanted to write a few sentences or to draw an image of our feelings, we all found that it...
Year 6 Mental Health Week
The theme of our Year 6's mental health week activity was music. We listened to brief clips of different styles of music: focussing especially on their tempo. As the music was playing we used a black pen to imitate how the music made us feel. For example a jagged line...
Year 3 Mental Health Week
The theme of our Year 3’s mental health activity was Meditation. We focussed on our breathing methods to help us regulate our emotions and practised our meditating poses. We have also created posters based on our affirmations and have been doing some mindfulness...
EYFS Mental Health Week
In EYFS we had a great day thinking about ways we can have a positive mindset and look after ourselves. We talked about things that we do that make us proud and why we are all special. We enjoyed listening to one another and sharing our ideas. In the afternoon we...
Year 2 Mental Health Week
Year 2 have been learning about what affirmations are. We came up with lots of positive affirmations and practiced saying the affirmations to ourselves using the mirrors. We are amazing! All children across the school were praised for their positive engagement within...
Year 1 Mental Health Week
As part of Children’s Mental Health Week Year 1 looked at how to be a good listener. They enjoyed playing listening games such as Chinese whispers, Simon says, and the ‘go’ game. They completed a daily challenge and even made phones out of paper cups and string to...
Year 5 Mental Health Week
Throughout this term we have been learning about our mental health and how to relax our minds. Some of the methods we have been using are triangle breathing, square breathing and finger breathing. We have also been having lessons called Mini-me Mindfulness, it helps...
Designing a fruit salad for a teddy bears picnic
In Year 1 the children have been designing a fruit salad for a teddy bears picnic. The children tasted a variety of fruits and chose which ones to include in their final design. Then we tasted them!
Investigating Light
Year 3 are investigating Light and particularly how it travels and reflects - in Lab_13 this week small groups built their own laser mazes using Lego and mirrors, then used laser pens and talc to reveal how the beams of light travel and reflect around the maze!
Stone Age Day
Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed their visit from Chester House for their Stone Age Day today! They have looked at amazing artefacts - from incredible pieces of pottery to woolly rhino bones that are 50,000 years old! The children also made their own stone age houses, and...
Fantastic trip to Twycross Zoo
Last week Year 1 had a fantastic trip to Twycross Zoo. They looked at lots of different animals, their diet, and their habitat. They even saw a leopard having its meaty lunch! Miss Cumley and Mrs Ojeda were both very impressed by all the children’s behaviour on the...
Learning how to play the ukulele
We have loved reading, writing and performing the story of Beowulf – especially when we had to describe all the blood and gory bits! We have also been learning how to play the ukulele and are looking forward to showcasing some of our talents to our parents later in...