Category: Pastoral

… and Breathe! As we headed into Children’s Mental Health Week, we stocked our ‘well-being toolkits’ with a few more mindfulness techniques in Monday morning’s assembly.  For our active bodies, we tried out eagle pose, which required the breath to focus on balance.  We also used the physical sensation of tapping; tapping our hands, our…

Years 3&4 had a wonderful morning in the outdoor classroom.  Such a beautiful day and the children were really engaged in making their dream catchers.  They were very helpful to each other … #collaborative.  They cooked bread on the fire and used our new tin plates.  What a wonderful way to spend a Friday. .

In Year 7 Life Skills the term has started with a look at relationships between people – what healthy, positive relationships look like and what makes for a healthy relationship. This is timed to coincide with the teaching of human reproduction as an example of mammalian reproduction in science lessons.

Friday’s form time was a pet themed event for 5P as we came together for a combined form session to show each other our favourite pets! We met a brand new puppy (Yuki), rabbits, dogs, cats, ponies, lambs and a Bearded Dragon called Spike! In total we met 16 different pets in one session! 5P…

As many of you will be aware, every year in the Lent term we celebrate Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week; this year the theme was ‘Find your Brave’ and we asked all the children to be courageous like Maisie! Next week (18th-23rd May) is the national Mental Health Awareness Week for adults.  The theme is…

In Life Skills lessons with Mrs Payne, Year 3 have been learning about what is personal information and who they can share this with. This week they had to create an imaginary character and hide behind their ‘masks’. They had to hold back their character’s personal information from their parents, who tried to guess it….

This half term in Life Skills lessons Years 3-6 are looking at different aspects of being online. ‘Lee and Kim’ will help Year 3 understand about personal information, whilst Year 4 are finding out what they should or shouldn’t share with ‘Alfie, Sam and Ellie’. These characters are all from the Thinkuknow series and help our…

Our themes of the week for this term have been focused on the topic of Planet Earth.  We’ve had Taking Responsibility, where our children were able to think about how we can take responsibility for our planet.  However, the theme also allowed us to consider how we take responsibility for other areas of our lives. …

Our Charity Committee met this week and brought with them a list of charities that had been put forward by their forms. The children understood that before we could get onto the fun activities that we can do to support these charities we must get to the nitty gritty of choosing the right charity. Choosing…

You may have seen this week that there has been an increased emphasis on social media and in the news about mental health issues.  This has been leading up to World Mental Health Day which was Thursday 10th October and Public Health England launched their Every Mind Matters Campaign on Monday 7th October. At Vinehall…