Author: Mrs Taylor

‘I can keep calm or help others to calm down’ is the new SEAL statement for this week. 

In class children will be learning about a variety of techniques to use if they need to calm down. 

Some of these techniques include:

• taking deep breaths
• walking away from the situation
• tell someone how you feel
• have a drink of water

Have a look at the calming down keyrings in each classroom for more ideas.

Our Health Group (parents / carers) will be meeting this Friday 12 November at 2.45pm in the school library.  

We shall be discussing food in school and drug education. 

All are welcome to attend – hope to see you there.

‘I can be a good friend’ is the SEAL statement for this week.

Following our SEAL assembly last week, there have been plenty of friendship tokens given out by children and staff alike.

How do you think you can be a good friend?

This half term our SEAL theme is all about Getting On and our first statement is ‘I can work co-operatively to help a group.’ 

The SEAL theme Getting On focusses on four main aspects:

• developing the social skills of friendship
• working well together in a group
• managing anger
• resolving conflict

Group work takes place across all lessons and even at lunchtime and playtimes.  Some questions for children to consider are:

• Did everyone take turns?
• Did everyone listen to what other people thought?
• Did each person have chance to tell the group what they thought?
• If people had different ideas could the group reach a compromise?

The last statement as part of our New Beginnings SEAL theme is ‘I can make my class a good place to learn.’

Class contracts and routines are fully in place now so staff will be looking out for children who make good choices to enable their class to have a positive learning environment.

We have been using the Eat Well Plate to see if our packed lunches are balanced.  Here is an example with the correct proportions of food in each food group.

‘I can do something brave’ is the new SEAL statement for this week.  This could be anything from having a go answering a difficult question in maths to joining a new after school club.

Thank you to all parents and carers who have made such positive comments about our recent Health Week. 

Our Health group (pupils) met this week with some great examples of how Health Week has enabled them to make even healthier choices.  Some of the comments from the meeting include:

• “I’ll eat more fruit now.” Bailey, Year 1
• “I’ll keep doing more exercise at home.” Zakir, Year 2
• “I will try to do more sport and exercise at home rather than watching the TV.” Arjun, Year 3
• “I am going to ride my bike more at home.” Amit, Year 3
• “I’ve asked my mum if we can get a blender to make our own smoothies at home.” Bethany, Year 3
• “After using the trampolines at Allerton Grange I am going to use my own more at home.” Connor, Year 4
• “I eat more fruit now including mango which I hadn’t tried before.” Connor, Year 4
• “I enjoy Family Fridays where I spend more time with my family doing exercise.” Ebony, Year 4
• “I am going to cut down the number of unhealthy snacks I have.” Ajay, Year 5

Following the introduction of our Packed Lunch Guidance, a number of children are already trying ways to make their lunch healthier:

• “My mum has suggested that I only bring crisps on Mondays as a treat, instead of every day, and I am going to try this.” Amit, Year 3
• “Following the Health Group meeting for parents, about packed lunches, I now send a chocolate biscuit once a week rather than every day and my children see it more like a treat.” Parent
• “I’ve stopped bringing a Fruit Shoot with my packed lunch as I have the water on the table instead.” Husna, Year 4

We would love to hear more Health Week feedback.