Residential
What an amazing few days we’ve had!
Year 4 were an absolute pleasure to take on residential. From the children, we saw great teamwork, resilience, (safe) risk-taking, maturity, kindness, good manners, stamina, determination, patience and I could list many more qualities.
All the staff had great fun alongside the children and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience! Great weather too!
Below are the first selection of photos. There are more to follow.
Ask your child to explain what is happening in the pictures.
If you’re missing Y4…
…they’re not missing us! Look at the fun they’re having on residential at Herd Farm. The sun is shining and they are having an amazing time. Some great expressions of concentration but all having a lot of fun.
Girls Golf Rocks
A great opportunity to try out a new activity locally.
All Stars cricket
All Stars Cricket will soon be starting their cricket programme at local clubs. Register and find out more on their website.
Big Pedal – our best day so far!
Today, we’ve recorded the highest number of active journeys by bike and scooter for the Big Pedal – 64 pupils (30%).
It would be great to increase these figures for the last few days of the Big Pedal.
After-school clubs update
We’ve had a great response to our summer term after-school clubs with a number of the clubs already full.
There are the following places available so please contact the office if your child would like to join.
- Tuesday: 1 place netball Year 3-6
- Thursday: 1 place skipping Year 2-6
- Thursday: 1 place multi-sports Year 3-6
After-school clubs
We’ve had a great start to our summer term after-school clubs with Wake up Shake up Club and Scooter Club taking place tonight.
If your child is coming to Scooter Club, please ensure they bring their scooter and helmet every Monday.
Big Pedal
- We’ve had 179 journeys recorded by bike or scooter so far.
- Wednesday 25 April was our highest participation rate with 28% of children taking part.
We’d love to improve these figures for this week.
Living and Learning – Emotions
This week, we’ve been exploring and discussing our own feelings and emotions and those of others. We discussed that we need to be able to recognise, name and manage our own feelings.
Emotions are a natural, important and healthy part of being human. The children named lots of varying emotions and the effect they can have on our bodies. We thought about some strategies to help us to learn how to manage the effects of strong feelings such as anger, sadness or loss.
I was really impressed that some children wanted to ask their peers for advice on how to deal with certain emotions.
- “I’d like some advice on how to stay calm.”
- “Have you tried going to a quiet place or counting to help calm you down?”
- “I’d like some advice on how to stop getting upset so easily.”
- “Maybe think whether or not it’s worth getting upset about. Talk to a friend or take deep breaths if you feel yourself getting upset.”
DON’T BOTTLE IT UP!
Following this lesson, we thought about colours and how they can represent mood and emotion. Using a colour chart, the children thought of an emotion and then had to find synonyms for it. It was amazing how many new words we found. “I’ve learnt the word livid today.”
After that, we thought about making some shades of the same colour to represent our chosen emotion. Using a bottle as a base, the children began to shade lightly and then, as they got higher up the bottle, the colour of the chosen emotion intensified.
At the end of our lesson we discussed the phrase ‘Don’t bottle things up.’
This was our definition – To contain or hold feelings in, especially emotions, and not express or reveal them: If you keep bottling up what you’re thinking, we’ll never be able to help you. I was angry, but I bottled my feelings up.
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