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Y6 enjoyed a morning outdoors in the fresh air using the nature in our school-yard to help them create some fantastic and highly imaginative artistic creations! It was a great way to end Mental Health Awareness Week. 

We have had a lovely week becoming more aware of Mental Health and how we can keep our minds happy and healthy.  We have worked with natural things that we have collected whilst out with our families, to make temporary art pieces, role play with seaweed in the water area, make petal sun catchers…

Year 5 dressed in green to raise awareness of the importance of nature in keeping us happy and healthy. We talked about how nature can help with our mental health and heard lots of lovely stories of the things we do outdoors. We wrote these down and made a class poster so everyone can enjoy…

The children listened carefully to the story of Jesus telling his Disciples and Mary, his mother, that everything would be alright, that they must look after each other and that he would ascend to Heaven to be with his Father there.  The children were intrigued and we talked about how Jesus may…

Mental Health Awareness Week

We all enjoyed wearing green today as part of promoting Mental Health Awareness.  We had lots of fun creating some surprise ‘Take a Break’ packs to send home today.  We talked about what Mental Health means and self help strategies we can use to help ourselves. Year…

The children have been making pirate parrot finger puppets this week with felt. They picked their own colours for the parrot and his beak, glued their own eyes on and added a colourful feather. Let’s hope they don’t turn into talking parrots when they get home. 
 

Year 5 enjoyed collecting items from nature to create their own ‘Nature Collages’. We discussed how being outdoors and appreciating the wonders of nature help us feel happier. 
 

Year 3 were investigating which material was best for curtains and tested which material was good at blocking out light. They tried a variety of materials and most children discovered that dark polyester was most effective. They measured the strength and size of the shadow created and considered…

Year 4 have completed a course in Coding during their computing lessons. They have been learning new technical vocabulary associated with coding and learning how to put computational thinking into practice. 
 

Year 4 spent the afternoon outside enjoying developing a relationship with nature. Time was spent relaxing, connecting with others and the world around us, contemplating how we can feel close to nature, how feeling close to nature can help us feel happy, calm and relaxed. We carried out some…

To mark the start of Mental Health Awareness Week (this year’s theme is Nature), our Y6 children used oil pastels and worked on their shading and shadowing techniques to create these calm and peaceful, nature-inspired pictures. 

As Mental Health Awareness Week began, we decided to go outside as we have realised that just being outside, whatever the weather, helps calm us and helps us to learn.  We looked around the playground and found some quiet places to sit beside our flowers.

We concentrated on our breathing…