Wellbeing and Trust
The work below highlights how each key stage has been developing their understanding of their place in the world, both personally and as an exploration of citizenship.
Every Child Unique - Reception
Reception have been discussing how each person is unique and exploring the idea of experiences being different through different perspectives. They highlighted and celebrated the differences they found between each other and shared their favourite things about themselves and others. They created snowflakes out of paper, following the same instructions and then tried to find someone who had made a snowflake that looked identical to theirs to highlight how everyone is different, even when doing the exact same thing!
Care and Trust - Year 1
As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, Year 1 have been thinking about how their feelings impact the people around them. They have been using familiar stories that explore the emotional themes and expressive puppets to act out scenarios in which the choices they make affect themselves and others. They discussed the role of a ‘trusted person’ and developed strategies that help to express negative emotions to those people in constructive ways so that they can be reach a positive outcome with support.
Journaling for Mental Fitness - Year 3
As part of their sequence of learning on ‘mental fitness’ during Children’s Mental Health Week, the children in Year 3 focused on how they can support their wellbeing independently when there may not be someone to share their thoughts with or they are not ready to yet share them with others. They completed daily journaling, using time to be mindful and check in with how they are feeling. They used whatever recording method felt best for them, writing, drawing, or other artistic expression. They had positive discussions on the responsibility of looking after yourself.
Unseen Impacts - Year 6
Year 6 have been learning about how their spending choices have global effects and the changes they can make in their personal money choices to prevent harm. They learnt about ethical and unethical business practices and held a debate on the topic ‘Who is responsible?’ arguing where responsibility lies at different levels of consumption: personal, structural, and global. They reflected on small and large scale impact and what action people can take to affect change on a larger scale with boycotts and contacting MPs.
