Last week, Year 2 enjoyed a packed Being Healthy themed week with lots of visitors and learning all about being healthy both physically and emotionally.
We started the week thinking about our skipping challenge for Make-A-Wish. In Year 2, we’ve learnt lots of skipping techniques this year and it was great that children challenged themselves to try some of the skills we’ve seen Year 4 demonstrate such as the butterfly and the pretzel.
As part of the transition to Year 3, have 2 0f our 5 a day and a chance to try out different fruits, we had our own fruit tuck shop.
In Year 3, the children will have the chance to prepay or bring their money to school (20p per portion) for the Key Stage 2 fruit tuck shop that runs weekly on a Tuesday playtime. The tuck shop was really popular and it looks like there will be lots of Year 3 customers next year! More details about the tuck shop will follow in September.
Our first visitor was Anabelle from One Day Creative to talk about mental health and mindfulness. We remembered some techniques from earlier in the year and learnt even more mindfulness techniques to use at school and at home.
Before we started the session, Annabelle witnessed and was very impressed with our mindful afternoon register time where the children can choose a technique to have some quiet time after a busy lunchtime.
We learnt lots of new techniques so ask your child about their favourite way to be calm and in the moment.
Shark fin breathing – breathe in and as you breathe out move your ‘shark fin’ down your face and exhale ‘sh’.
Listen to the sound of the singing bowl until you can hear it no more.
Back to back breathing – take deep breaths and feel your partner breathing.
A great one for concentration – clap as the hands cross in front of the body.
Thumb emotions – blow on your thumb and show your emotion using your thumb.
Colour breathing – think of a relaxing colour when you breathe in and think of a stressed colour to send out of your body as you breathe out.
Five senses – can you think of five things you can see, hear, smell, touch and taste around you? Do you notice things you’ve not seen/heard before?
Starfish breathing – breathe in as you slowly move your finger up to your finger tip and breathe out as you move down your finger tip. Repeat slowly around your hand.
