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16 May 2021

Getting back to Nature

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…

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16 May 2021

Y5 Mental Health Awareness

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…

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14 May 2021

Mental Health Awareness Week in Year 2

Year 2 have been reflecting on how they connect with nature and the impact this has on their mental health and well-being. The children had lots of fun using their computing skills to record their thoughts on a green screen video then add a personal photo to illustrate their favourite place to…

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14 May 2021

Y1 Mental Health Awareness Week

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…

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13 May 2021

Year 3 Share Happy Thoughts

We discussed that a healthy mind is a happy mind. We shared our happy thoughts with each other and sent them to parents too. They help to create our happiest thoughts.

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13 May 2021

Bringing Nature Into Our Lives

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. 
 

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12 May 2021

Year 3 Dance to Feel Good

Year 3 enjoyed music and wanted to express themselves with dance. As it was Mental Health Awareness Week, we found that this helps to give us a happy mind. 

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12 May 2021

Bringing Nature into our Lives

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…

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11 May 2021

Y6 Mental Health Week Art inspired by nature

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. 

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10 May 2021

Mindful Moments

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…

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1 April 2021

Autism Awareness Week 2021

We have had some very open and honest discussions about what autism is a what life is like living with autism. 

The children were so thoughtful and insightful and those with a diagnosis of autism kindly shared with us their experiences of the world and some of the challenges they encounter in…

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1 April 2021

Y2 Autism Awareness

Today Year 2 have been learning about Autism Awareness Week and what autism is, including the difficulties that autistic people can encounter in their lives. The children learned how everyone is different and unique in their own special ways. They reflected on this by thinking about all the things…

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