Living and Learning: Confident Me self-esteem and body confidence workshop
Recently, Year 5 and 6 took part in a Confident Me self-esteem and body confidence workshop led by representatives from Dove and Unilever.
Body image forms part of our Living and Learning later in the year and as children comment they enjoy visitors delivering Living and Learning, we were keen to run this workshop once again.
The Confident Me Workshop is one of the Dove Self-Esteem Project’s programmes. It addresses issues of body confidence and low self-esteem. The workshop covers topics such as: appearance, beauty and body image and examines how images of models, actors and celebrities are fabricated or manipulated to portray a ‘perfection’ against which our kids often measure themselves. Most of all, the workshops help young people develop the skills and behaviours that lead to positive self-esteem and body confidence.
Resources are available to parents to support and follow up this learning at home.
Active travel in October – week two winner
Well done to our week two active travel winner (08 – 12 October) who was randomly selected to receive the latest £10 voucher.
Our week three winner will be announced early next week.
We have a final weekly prize to award and also a prize for someone who has made an active journey to school every day in October. These prizes will be awarded straight after half term once our Living Streets travel tracker data is available.
Remember an active journey can be walking, biking, scooting or parking away from the school gate and striding the last part of the journey.
Lost property
School Council are involved in a project to try and reduce the amount of lost property we have at school.
Starting this Friday, lost property will be available to look through in the playground to hopefully reduce the pile we have already this term!
Naming your child’s items helps to get things back to their owners so we will also be offering a clothing name labelling service for 20p per item. Profits will go to our school charity, Make-a-Wish.
New additions to the library – thank you, school councillors
At their final meeting, our current school councillors spent time, using part of their budget, choosing new books for our library.
From sport books to science books, there’s a great selection. The books will soon be available to borrow from the library.
School Council elections
In our whole school assembly today, we launched this year’s School Council election process. Our School Council is one of the ways that children are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.
The election process allows children to develop an understanding of one of the British Values, democracy, with two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers.
Our current school councillors spoke about their role over the last year and the qualities needed to be an effective school councillor.
These included:
- use the 8 Rs for learning
- be respectful and polite
- help others
- be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)
- share and be confident with your ideas
- let others speak
- accept the views of others even if you don’t agree
- be friendly and approachable
- follow our school rules and make good choices in class and around school
Watch out for the whole school homework this week all about the election and democracy, ready for the elections next Thursday 25 October.
Remember…remember…
It’s a little early but, during our Time Travel topic, we’re hurtling through the history of Britain and we find ourselves in the year 800AD. In Britain, the Vikings are taking over. Meanwhile, in China, they’re creating an invention that will change the world: gunpowder.
This invention has had a huge impact on Britain and without it, the gunpowder plot in the 1600s would never have been formed. In topic, we’ve learnt all about the people involved in this devious (ask us what this means) plan and created some artwork inspired by it.
History of Britain…as an acrostic poem
After our visit from the Hobgoblin Theatre, we thought about how we could sum up a history of Britain and we decided to write acrostic poems. Our challenge was to rhyme and lots of us stepped up to this challenge successfully.
Enjoy!
Bike and run at the Brownlee Centre
The Brownlee Centre is a great facility on our doorstep.
These bike and run sessions, run by the Brownlee Foundation, are open to all children, any ability, aged 8-14. Why not give it a tri?
Homework Review
We really enjoyed reading all of our stories in this week’s homework review. There were some fantastic tales that really showed off the writing we’ve worked on so far this year.
First, we summarised our story for the people on our table using only ten words. Then, we swapped with someone else on our table and told them what we liked about it.
We then had the chance to wander around the class to get a snippet from lots of people’s before settling down to read another one and tell them what we thought.
We nominated stories to be shared on the website, giving reasons why we felt that story should be shared.
Farai’s was nominated because Thomas felt like he’d written like a Tom Gates story and he loved the cliff hanger.
Kai’s was nominated by Martha because he’d put lots of effort in and used great adjectives.
Lory’s was chosen by Rohan because it was action-packed.
Josh’s was chosen by Farai because he used some great verbs and sentence openers.
Living and Learning
Although this week’s Living and Learning statement is about summarising the work on the 8Rs we’ve been focusing on so far this half term, this week we had a visit from Dove to talk about body image.
We explored where pressure comes from for us to consider our appearance too much. Some really interesting videos showed us just how much an image we might see in professional media can be manipulated. Then, we discussed different points of the video in groups.
When we were sharing our thoughts, we had some really thoughtful and mature points to make:
