We all love to go outside and our OPAL area has some fabulous spaces for us to explore. We are much happier when we wear our wellies and waterproofs and we will be needing them more as the weather changes.
All of our children do go out in all types of weather.
We have been thinking of different ways to sort some of the toys in P1. We thought about sorting by colour and by type of toy. We then tried some trickier ways of sorting and we helped each other to figure them out. There were some good ideas with some great ways to explain our thoughts.
We very carefully followed the instructions to make some flapjack. We were very good at taking turns.
As part of staff wellbeing, one member of staff came into work this morning with this waiting for her from her secret wellbeing buddy. It certainly made her Monday morning!
P4 attended an athletics competition at Consett Leisure Centre and I think you can tell by the smiles on their faces, had a lovely afternoon!
If you shop at Aldi, or you know anyone that does, please make sure you ask for the stickers at the till. We need to fill this poster with stickers to have the chance to win £20,000 for sports equipment. Even if we don’t win the money, they send resources for a full sticker chart!! Please get collecting and send them into school.
P10 enjoyed learning about evolution and adaptation. They used different tools (spoons, tweezers and a cocktail stick) to represent different beaks and
how birds could adapt to their environments in order to survive and get food.
To celebrate world mental health day a group of our primary and secondary students engaged in some active listening training by ‘time to change’ organisation. They focussed on developing their role in school as ambassadors for positive mental health and getting the message across that it’s ‘ok to talk’. This is our school pledge, promising to promote the time to change motto and being a school that supports positive mental health.
Lots of resources for parents can be found on the website
Www.time-to-change.org.uk
Yesterday, students from P4-P15 took part in a number of activities to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. These activities included mindfulness colouring, signing pledges to support positive mental health, sport, singing and art projects. As well as this we had a theatre company come and work with students in a number of workshops around mindfulness. The students and staff had a wonderful day and there was a lovely atmosphere in school with lots of happy faces! We even had a special guest singer…
