Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

26th May 2023G Mills

Over the last week, all classes have been considering this years theme for Mental Health Awareness Week: anxiety.

 

All children can describe anxious feelings and give examples of times they have felt this way. We understand, at times, anxiety is a normal human emotion and speaking to a trusted adult is good when we experience these types of feelings.

 

Children produced thought bubbles; suggesting many excellent ways to overcome and manage anxiety. Hopefully, these ideas can help us all, in the future.

Supermarket Sandwiches

26th May 2023A Hutchinson

This week in DT Hollies and Acorns made their own supermarket sandwiches. They practiced all of the skills they have learnt this year and tasted their own creations.

This week Hollies have been busy bees completing lots of English and Maths jobs. They have been looking at which animals we keep as pets and which animals live in the wild. They also made pizzas using wraps and have had fun in the sun.

Strengthening Structures

25th May 2023A Tod

This week in DT the children continued their work on strengthening structures. Their aim is to find a suitable material to build their mini greenhouses.

They compared the use of cocktail sticks to spaghetti and found that the cocktail sticks worked much better to build their structures because they did not break as easily!

Solar Science

25th May 2023A Tod

In science, as part of their scientific enquiry unit, the children in Willows have been making their own solar ovens.

They had to make sure that the materials they used were the most effective for making their ovens, so they had to think about what materials would reflect and absorb sunlight.

It was a brilliantly sunny afternoon so they headed out to melt their pieces of chocolate!

Sensory Bottles and Outdoor Fun!

25th May 2023A Malone

This week in Acorns we have been thinking about ways to improve our mental health. We made sensory bottles which we can use to help us feel more calm and relaxed. We added glitter, sequins, colour, beads and other things that make us feel happy. We were all very pleased with the results!

 

 

We have also been researching minibeasts to make a class information book. We had a great time outside exploring minibeast habitats.

Minibeasts!

23rd May 2023A Malone

This week we are learning all about minibeasts. We went on a minibeast hunt, built some insect dens, and did lots of other minibeast themed jobs.

We are going to make a class book to show everything we know about minibeasts!

Hunting for minibeasts!

 

Minibeast jobs

 

This Week in Maples!

19th May 2023S Wilkinson

In Maples this week the children have continued to learn new sounds in phonics and apply this to their reading and writing. In Maths the children have been working on their own individual targets including answer one step addition word problems, matching dice faces to numerals, multiplication and telling the time to o’clock. In Science, we have continued looking at lifecycles and ordered the lifecycle of a butterfly and in Art this week we used software to create regal portraits. In History we have been learning about different royal residences and have sorted them into houses, palaces and castles.  Have a look at what we’ve been doing!