Children's Mental Health Week - Kew Woods Primary School
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Friday 5th February, 2021
Headteacher:
Children’s Mental Health Week Christina Jackson, BA Hons
This week the children in school and at home started off Children’s Mental Health Tel: 01704 533 478
week with a virtual assembly. The theme was Express Yourself and the children Please visit our website:
were encouraged to find creative ways to express their feelings and make www.kewwoodsprimary.co.uk
themselves feel good. It explored finding a way to show themselves and their
uniqueness and how they see the world.
Across the school, the children participated in a range of activities around this
theme. They have been encouraged to express themselves by participating in art,
writing, dancing, singing, making something, dressing up etc and use their
imagination. Some year groups played a board game that focused on emotions
and encouraged the children to talk them through and give examples of when
they have felt that emotion.
It has been great to see the children working remotely using the Worry Button to
report any issues or concerns they have. This facility enables the teacher to keep
in touch with their class. Often a worry shared becomes much smaller and
manageable for the children.
We hope the children have enjoyed the week and focused upon taking care of
themselves, staying safe and have had a wonderful week.
School Dinners
Still available for pupils
at school
Daily hot meal is
available (choice A) as
well as jacket potatoes
(Monday, Wednesday
and Friday) and
sandwiches / wraps and
salad (Tuesday /
Thursday)
Any queries please
contact the school
office
Follow us on Twitter @kewwoods
Express Yourself
One of the activities the children enjoyed this week
was aimed at encouraging good mental health by
expressing themselves, in keeping with this week's assembly theme. The children were asked to collect
personal items that represent who they are and arrange the items carefully on a table and take a photo or
draw the items. We loved this idea too and it made us smile with all of the different ways the children were
able to express themselves. It may be something you want to do as a family at home.
Parent’s Mental Health We wanted to take the opportunity to say ‘Thank you’ to all of our parents! You are doing a fantastic job in these challenging circumstances. We know that families are facing different challenges including working from home themselves, supporting their child and other siblings with their school work and running the household. It is important that you recognise the amazing job you are all doing in these difficult times and take time for yourselves too. There may be days when school work needs to take a back seat and that is fine. If we can provide any support please do not hesitate to get in touch. Although the poster below is aimed at mum’s, we know how all adults in the family home are supporting the children at the moment so please make sure you take care of yourselves too. You can’t pour from an empty cup!
Children’s University Credits
We are able to offer Children’s University clubs that can be completed virtually at home so that the children
can still gain credits. The clubs are available for critical worker children in school each day to complete at
home, or for children working remotely at home. The tasks can be completed at any time.
We will be sending these out weekly and there is a choice of four clubs that children can. The children are
able to do as many as they wish each week. They can gain one credit per club per week. Parents should
email evidence of the clubs being completed to laura.ashcroft@elevate-ebp.co.uk for credits to be allocated.
We would also love to see any photographs of the children completing any of the tasks and would love to
share them with our community on Twitter and our newsletters.
Children’s University Virtual Clubs
Spring term Week 4
Photography Club Keep Active Club
Shadows everywhere Circuit training!
As the light changes throughout the 1. Think up 10 moves (eg running on the spot, press ups, squats,
day, shadows appear in different rope skipping, tuck jumps, star jumps, bear crawls, plank)
2. Write these down in an order
places. 3. Find any equipment you need
Look around your house or outdoors 4. Get someone to time you
and take photos of interesting looking 5. Now do exercise 1 for 30 seconds then rest for 30 seconds
shadows. 6. Repeat until you have done each exercise. Record your heart rate!
If you feel creative, make your own
shadows with a lamp or a torch and
take photos of them.
Lego Club Cookery Club
Build a figure Rice Krispie Cakes
You can choose See separate sheet for ingredients and method
any figure, a person,
animal or even a robot!
You can choose to take part in as many clubs as you like. Each activity is worth 1
Children’s University credit. When you have completed an activity send your evidence
to me laura.ashcroft@elevate-ebp.co.ukLearning in Reception
Learning in Year 2
Kew Woods Superstars! As well as completing the work on Google Classrooms, it is lovely to see all of the home learning taking place. everyone! We have such creative children and we are sure that we are going to have some future chefs come from Kew Woods. It is wonderful to see all of the enrichment work taking place. Thank you parents for sharing lots of wonderful photographs.
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