Thrive Activities – Week Nine
Emotional Wellbeing – Week 9 2020
Thrive Activities – Week Eight
Emotional Wellbeing – Week 8 2020
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Thrive Activities – Week Six
Emotional Wellbeing -Week Six 2020
Thrive Activities – Week Five
Thrive Activities – Week Four
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Thrive Activities – Week Three
The Power of Kindness
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Thrive Activities – Week Two
Thrive activities for parents of children up to age 7 – week two (1)
Thrive Activities – Week One
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 focuses 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.
