In assembly, children explored the power of positive thinking and learned that it’s perfectly okay to share their feelings. Our amazing children showed such empathy and understanding, reminding us that kindness starts with being kind to ourselves. 💝

Remember, just like we exercise our bodies, taking care of our minds is a super important part of staying healthy! 🌈 Ask your child about their favourite activity from today – their enthusiasm might just brighten your day too! ⭐

This year’s theme is Mental Health in the Workplace. The theme highlights the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, for the benefit of people, organisations, and communities.  Our Wellbeing ambassadors delivered little goody bags to all of our staff to say a big ‘Thank You’ for all that they do for everyone in school and to show their appreciation on behalf of all the pupils. All of our school team were overjoyed with their display of kindness. How lucky we are to have such thoughtful children in our school.

Our pupil Wellbeing Ambassadors have been very busy in their recruitment for new Behaviour Leaders.  They discussed and made a list of questions for the Behaviour Lead interviews.  Our Ambassadors then considered very carefully the qualities that are needed for the role. This included our school rules and core values.  Using this information, they selected pupils for interview.  Our pupils were incredibly thoughtful of the needs of our pupils and school, and how we can best support our pupils.

The children took part in our money. Every class looked at the Five Big Questions about money from the Lifesavers programme.

The five big questions were: Where does our money come from? How does Money make us feel? What can we use our money for? How does our money help other people? How can we look after our money?

The children really enjoyed their sessions and found out lots about the different coins and notes that we use to pay for things, what we would spend our money on and how we might need to prioritise what we spend, so the children then discussed what was a need and what was a want. Lots of important discussions were had and the children gained a better understanding on the importance of money and how it affects us all.

Four of our Year 5 pupils who wanted to find out more about how to improve mental health for pupils in our school attended the Nott Alone Mental Health workshop at Notts County. It was a great opportunity to visit a variety of different stalls where the children found out about organisations that work and support children and their families. They took part in creative art workshops which included creating bracelets and clay models to express themselves. The children thoroughly enjoyed the day and couldn’t wait to share what they had learnt with the rest of the school.

The week started with children wearing odd socks to symbolize that it’s okay to be different and to celebrate individuality. We then had an assembly where the children learnt about bullying and how it affects our mental health and emotional wellbeing and why it is so important to make a noise about it to stop it! The children took part in activities in their classes to reinforce the importance of not bullying and to promote positive relationships.

For World Mental Health Day our Wellbeing Ambassadors worked with Mrs Stone to create an activity for our children to complete. The Ambassadors decided that they would like pupils to make a poster that they could use whenever they may need to do an activity to help boost their mental health and emotional wellbeing. First the children watched a short film introduced by the Duchess of Cambridge, in which children talked about mental health. The children then discussed and shared with each other the things that help them to feel good and have good mental health and then they set to work in creating their posters.

We celebrated RSE day and the focus this year was on Embracing Change. Change can be difficult for us all. We took part in an art activity which focused on looking at our emotions during a particular change that we could identify with. The children discussed changes in life and how they can make us feel lots of different emotions. The children produced some beautiful art work to show different changes.