Allotment Club have been preparing the soil in the raised beds for seedlings. We have been planting spinach, beetroot and salad leaves.
Meet our Allotment Club!
How lucky that the day we visited the polytunnel to plant some seeds to grow peas, carrots and cauliflowers, a box arrived full of all the things we need to grow salad vegetables, courtesy of The Big Grow by Innocent and GIY(Grow It Yourself).
We all know how important mental health and wellbeing are, so a big thank you to the NEU Help a Child to Learn Foundation, and to Thompson and Morgan for their support. Their donations have enabled us to give a Wellbeing Bag, complete with a range of resources to support wellbeing, to all of our pupils.
There’s something for everyone inside. Welcome back!
We enjoyed planting different seeds this afternoon including broccoli, courgette, leeks and turnip. We can keep an eye on them in our classroom until the weather gets warmer. Fingers crossed we can transfer the plants into our raised beds and look forward to lots of lovely vegetables!
We took advantage of the beautiful weather on Friday to take part in our wellbeing walk. In Science, we have been learning about the weather so we enjoyed hunting for signs of spring using binoculars. We know how keeping active can help us to feel good inside and out, so we enjoyed walking/running to different spots around our school grounds!
Ant and Dec hosted a virtual assembly today on behalf of the NSPCC.
It addresses some of the worries or concerns pupils may have about returning to school. It’s well worth a watch!
For more mental health and emotional wellbeing resources, please go to the
Personal Development tab on our home page.
The following website links have useful tips and strategies for relaxation, resilience, promoting positive self-esteem, Anti-bullying/Self-care toolkits, and signposts to organisations for further support if required.
https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/childrens-mental-health/
Coping Calendar – Great for the whole family!
We really like our snow days, but it can be a bit chilly. We warmed up in class this morning with a GoNoodle – dodging some snowballs online!
The theme of this year’s Safer Internet Day which our pupils took part in, was Exploring Reliability in the Online World.
Year 4 pupils took part in a live quiz on Google Meet run by the ICT in Schools Team. There were teams involved from other South Tyneside schools too. It was a lot of fun, and it prompted a lot of discussion. We learnt a lot about keeping our information private, about real and fake images, and online bullying.
The theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is ‘Express Yourself’.
We have been writing poems, making Lego models, and drawing pictures to express our individuality through our creativity.
Some of our pupils have entered their fantastic work into a competition run by South Tyneside Healthy Minds Team. Good luck everyone!
