This afternoon, children have been learning how to build their own confidence and resilience. Working with our visitor from the Healthy Minds Team, children discussed helpful and unhelpful thoughts and how they can effect our actions.
Children then produced a list of the skills they felt confident about and how they can use them in daily life.
This week, children have been taking part in Odd Socks Day, as part of Children’s Mental Health Week.
Children have been learning about respect and tolerance. As well as showing support by wearing odd socks, they working in groups to perform role plays showing disrespectful and respectful was to resolve conflicts.
Children have been learning about how to support their mental health needs as part of Mental Health Day 2024.
Children discussed what the term mental health meant to them before discussing useful strategies they could use to support their own needs, as well as the needs of others.
Children then went on to identify positive and negative emotions linked to experiences andĀ discussed how to recognise these feelings when they arise.
Today we voted for our School Council.Ā Children who wished to be candidates spoke to their class and shared their manifesto.Ā Votes will be counted and we are awaiting the results.
Today, Year Five had a visit from two members of Northumbria Police. The purpose of the visit was to advertise and explain the role of āMini Policeā. Children were given the opportunity to ask questions about the scheme and the āMini Policeā role before applying to be one of a lucky 10 representatives from Marine Park. Those who are successful in applying will have the chance to meet the Police Mounted Unit as well as visit the local station, the cells and the local Police Dive Centre.
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Year 4 have been finishing our Free School Meals Campaign with Pip.Ā We completed filming today.Ā We tried a few different ways to film and can’t wait to see the finished video.
Year 4 have been taking part in workshops ran by the team at Healthy Minds.Ā This week we learnt about confidence and how what we think can affect our behaviour.
This week, the Y3 school councillors have been learning about democracy by taking part in the Staryland Event at South Shields Town Hall. Children took part in activities with groups from other schools, before meeting the mayor and taking part in a hustings to elect the new leader of Staryland.
Pupils in school this week have been celebrating International Women’s Day. We have researched the lives of several inspirational women and discussed the importance of fairness and equality.
Children in Year 3 were asked to think about people who inspire them in their own lives and create a fact file all about their own role models, including what they had inspired them to want to become in the future.
As part of our PSHE focus into Citizenship, Year 5 explored āRules and Responsibilitiesā of school and life outside of school.
They explored how laws are made in the UK and who makes them. Additionally, they reviewed the structure of UK courts and the significance of juries. As a result, they took part in a model courtroom and attempted to convince a jury of their peers as as to who was guilty or not!
