September 2024

We have begun the year by thinking about ways to support our mental wellbeing. We have decided to acknowledge World Mental Health day on Thursday 10th October by wearing yellow and carrying out activities to help identify ways to support our mental health. We have even suggested learning outdoors for part of the day as getting out in the fresh air usually does wonders for our mental wellbeing!

We have also decided that we will set up and promote Wellbeing Wednesday! On the last Wednesday of each half term, we will encourage wellbeing activities at the end of the day in our classrooms and around school. Wellbeing Wednesdays will be focused on the 5 areas of wellbeing:

World Mental Health Day photos - Thursday 10th October 2024

We had such a great day raising awareness of mental health and carrying out activities to promote ways to keep our minds healthy. Getting outdoors is one great way to ensure great mental health so we carried out some mindfulness activities (like planting bulbs in our outdoor areas) outside as well as taking some of our learning outside at various points of the day!

School Council 2023-2024:

The school council children have been busy making signs for the new equipment rota - Ruby's idea - to make it  fairer in case of wet play. The signs change daily when we're out on the playground. This means that classes don't miss out on their day on the equipment if it's raining on the day of their turn.

This half term, the school  are going to focus on how to raise money for Comic Relief and the school.

February 2024

School Council recently looked through our RE floor books to get a sense of the other religions we have been learning about in our classes. Each pair talked us through their class' floor book and explained what they have been learning about.

March 2024

This month, we have thought about ways we could raise money for our school including bake sales and 'break the rules day'. 

April 2024

We have prioritised wellbeing this month and thought about ways we can further improve the wellbeing of all at St. Mary's. We came up with the following ideas:

• Take part in more mindfulness and meditation activities in classand during our Worship sessions
• Have a calming / mindfulness session at the end of the day before hometime
• Have time to reflect at the end of a day to voice worries or concerns and to help each other through them
• Develop our playground calm zone, introducing things such as colouring, a book box and loom band making

May 2024

We got together and reflected on the changes made to our curriculum and what we have learned about so far this year. We agreed that having our knowledge organisers have really helped us to remember key facts and this helps us to bring our knowledge together at the end of a unit by creating a mind-map of information. We looked through our class' floorbooks and showed one another what we have learned.