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Stanhope Barrington CE Primary School

Westcroft, Stanhope, Bishop Auckland DL13 2NU

 Stanhope Barrington CE Primary School
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Emotional Wellbeing

Thrive Wellbeing Toolkits

The Thrive Wellbeing Toolkits are useful resources packed with ideas to promote wellbeing in your child and yourself in this challenging time…take a look:

Thrive Wellbeing toolkit for children up to age 7

Thrive Wellbeing toolkit for children up to age 11

Thrive Wellbeing toolkit for children up to age 16

Kindness Activity Pack

The British Red Cross have produced some excellent resources to help parents and children. The resources are aimed at supporting positive emotional well-being and mental health. There are home learning resources on:

  • Understanding Stress – this resource explains in simple terms what stress is and how to reduce it.
  • Circles of Control – this resource helps us to understand what we can and can’t control and how understanding worries can help us to feel better.
  • Meaningful Connections – this resource shows how keeping in touch with others is important to alleviate loneliness and to maintain social interaction.

These sections contain short animations to share with your children.

In addition, there is a Kindness Activity Pack which is definitely worth a look. All of these packs are available from The British Red Cross.

WAAP Help and Support Advice

Help and Support flyer November 2020

Dot Day 2020

Dot Day focusses on everyone ‘having a go’. The children all created their own dots under the theme of: ‘Dots of Kindness’. They were then put up in the library making a vibrant display. This is part of our Emotional Wellbeing programme, Thrive.


Here We Are 2020

Everyone took part in a whole school integration topic, ‘Here We Are’ based on the book ‘Here We Are’ by Oliver Jeffers. We focused on integrating the children back into school and finding out about ourselves and the ever-changing world that we live in. Ensuring everyone in the school community feels settled and safe is a central focus. Supporting wellbeing continues to be of central importance to ensure that every pupil is ready to learn.


Thrive Activities – Summer 2020

Emotional Wellbeing – Summer 2020

Emotional Wellbeing – Summer 2 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 16

Emotional Wellbeing – Week 16 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 15

Emotional Wellbeing – Week 15 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 14

Emotional Wellbeing – Week 14 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 13

Emotional Wellbeing – Week 13 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 12

Emotional Wellbeing – Week 12 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 11

Emotional Wellbeing – Week 11 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 10

Thrive Activities – Week 9

Emotional Wellbeing – Week 9 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 8

Emotional Wellbeing – Week 8 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 7

Thrive Activities – Week 6

Emotional Wellbeing -Week Six 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 5

Thrive Activities – Week 4

Emotional Wellbeing -Week Four 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 3

The Power of Kindness

Emotional Wellbeing-The Power of Kindness-2020

Emotional Wellbeing-The Power of Kindness Calendar-2020

Active Coping Calendar: April 2020

Thrive Activities – Week 2

Thrive activities for parents of children up to age 7 – week two (1)

Thrive Activities – Week 1

Thrive activities for parents of children up to age 11 – week one (1)

Some suggestions from Mrs Howes to support emotional wellbeing:

Routine – It’s important to keep the family in a routine to help focus you and the children. One hour slots are great and can be filled with exercise, crafts, creative activities, reading, games and much more. Learning doesn’t need to be at a table and can take place through lots of different ways. The length of time will depend upon the age of your child and their ability to concentrate for sustained periods of time. You could try using small slots of 10 mins then building up their stamina.

Exercise – We all know how important exercise is for the mind and body. There are lots of different ideas and suggestions online. Here are a few you might like to try:

· An outdoor obstacle course

· Cosmic Kids Yoga

· Joe Wicks 5 minute moves

· Mindfulness – The listening game (Cosmic Kids have a range of different activities – Zen Den)

· Have a party/ Disco. Put on some classics from your childhood and show them the moves from your era!

Reading – Reading is so important and can help calm and relax the children. There are many online programmes, such as:

· Storyline online

· CBeebies Bedtime Stories

· Stories from authors – many authors are reading their own books to bring them alive!

· Encourage the family to read a group. The children can read books that are familiar and make them feel happy. What a lovely way to share happy memories.

· Writing your own books – stories. Children have such an amazing imagination and might come up with their own stories or comic strips to share. You too can join in with the fun.

Getting creative – Arts and crafts are a great way to forget about things and have fun in the moment.

· Playdough is easy to make and can give hours of creative fun.

· Salt dough is also quick to make and can be fun to make models that be painted after drying.

· Junk modelling – use your left over ‘junk’ and let you imagination run wild.

· Take your pencil for a walk – allow your pencil to flow all across the page. The colour in all of the different gaps.

· Make a think of you card for someone that you haven’t seen for a while. Imagine their face when then they see it!

Go for a nature walk in your garden. Take the time to be quiet. What can you hear? See? Smell? Feel? How often do we get the chance to just be?

Please share any of your activities with us at: stanhopebarrington@durhamlearning.net . We’d love to see what you have been up to!

World Mental Health Day

Our school celebrated World Mental Health Day on Thursday 10th October 2019. Each class did a range of different activities linked to mental health. Our theme for the day was the colour yellow.

Class 5 made yellow friendship bracelets and gave them to someone to let them know that they cared. The children had a whole school assembly based on ‘What is Mental Health?’ and in the afternoon every class took part in yoga and mindfulness activities.

It is essential that we talk about mental health and where better to begin than with our own school.


Dot Day

Dot Day focusses on everyone ‘having a go’. The children all created their own dots using only 1 colour. They were then put up in the main entrance as our Dot Tree. This is part of our Emotional Wellbeing programme, Thrive.


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