This week our theme is positivity! Keeping positive can really help us keep focused on the good things in life. Sometimes it can be hard to see the good when things in life are tough. Keeping focussed on the small moments of positivity can help keep us feeling good on the inside and the outside.
Quote of the Week
Miss Niblett and Mrs Guest's Challenge of the Week!
This week we are challenging you to make a rainbow of positivity. You can add some positive words to your rainbow too! You can paint, colour, draw or even make a rainbow our of things around the house. Be as creative as you can! Where can you find a rainbow of positivity around your house? What will your message be? Good Luck!
Don't forget to send any photos to nurture@woolaston.gloucs.sch.uk
We can't wait to see what you come up with!
Miss Niblett's positive quote
Mrs Guest's positive quote
I spotted a rainbow of positivity on my daily walk
This week our theme is Mindfulness! Its so important to give ourselves the time to practise being mindful, it can help us reset our bodies into thinking more positively and give our busy brains a well deserved break. We can practise mindfulness by doing mindful colouring, breathing, yoga or even a nature walk. All these things can help your brain give it the break it needs, especially as you've all been working so hard at home.
Quote of the Week!
Miss Niblett and Mrs Guest's Challenge of the Week!
This week we are challenging you to go on a nature walk. Use your daily walk in your local area, to go exploring! What will you come across on your walk this week? What can you see and hear? Take a photograph of you on your nature walk or draw a picture of it and send it in. We would love to see where you have been exploring this week! What animals will you see on your walk? Will you spot the first signs of Spring?
Don't forget to email any photos to nurture@woolaston.gloucs.sch.uk if you have taken part. We can't wait to hear from you!
I made a friend on my nature walk around Lydney Lake - Miss Niblett
Look what I found on my nature walk! Storm enjoying the woods - Mrs Guest
This week are looking at happiness! When we feel happy on the inside, we glow on the outside. There are so many things make us feel happy. The sunshine can make us feel happy, the snow can out a smile on our faces and even talking to our friends can make us feel happy. What can we do to help others feel happy? We can make our parents feel happy by helping them around them house. Doing something kind for others can make them feel appreciated and feel happy. What can you do this week to make others or yourself feel happy? Let us know!
Quote of the Week
Miss Niblett and Mrs Guest's Challenge of the Week!
This week we would love for you to do a Random Act Kindness for someone you know. This could be someone in your family, your neighbour or even your friend. Please remember to do this safely following the government guidelines on social distancing. What can you do to make someone else smile? pass on the smile from your face to others.
Here are some ideas:
- Make pictures for your window for people to enjoy on their daily walks
- Make a card for the Postman/ Post lady
- Wash up for your parents or guardians
- Do some litter picking on your daily walk
- Leave a cake for a friend or a neighbour
Don't forget to send any photos to our Nurture email, we would love to see what you get up to this week!
"I surprised Miss Page this morning with a good tidy up" - Miss Niblett
This week our theme is friendship! Keeping in contact with our friends is incredibly important, now more than ever. Our friends can support us and help us get though challenging times like these. Although we are apart from our friends we can still keep in touch virtually.
Quote of the week
Miss Niblett and Mrs Guest's Challenge of the Week!
This week we would love you to get creative and make your very own Lockdown Buddy. You can use any materials you have around the house, here are a few ideas;
- cardboard
- cereal boxes
- shoe box
- pom poms
- yoghurt pots
- toilet rolls tubes
Use any of these materials to create your very own Lockdown Buddy, give them a smiley face and a name of your choice. What qualities do you look for in a friend? What will you call your new buddy? What will you and your Lockdown Buddy get up to at home? Don't forget to email any photographs to us, we would love to see your creations. Good luck children!
Miss Niblett's Lockdown Buddy, Mr Happy
Mrs Guest's Lockdown Buddy, Mr Bright and Happy
Here are some tasks you can try:
Post a card to a special friend that you are missing at the moment
This weeks theme is relaxation, we are going to focus on activities that help our minds and bodies relax. We all have different ways to relax, some people mind find colouring relaxing, crafting or baking. What can you do this week to relax?
Quote of the week
Miss Niblett and Mrs Guest's Challenge of the Week!
This week we are challenging you to pick up your aprons, get in the kitchen and get baking or cooking! We would love to see what treats and dishes you make at home, with your grown ups to help you of course. We find baking and cooking a relaxing past time, to cook a meal or bake a cake can give us a sense of achievement. Can you bake a cake to make someone you know smile? We would love to see your photographs, good luck everyone!
In this Cosmic Kids guided relaxation, we go floppy like cooked spaghetti and then take a journey into a magical forest in our minds. Eventually we discover ...
Week 1 - 11th Jan
This weeks theme is worrying. We will be looking at different ways in which we can overcome our worries together, we can do this!
Quote of the week
The Huge bag of Worries
The Huge Bag of Worries Click the link to take you to this story. It may help you to organise your own worries.
Miss Niblett and Mrs Guest's Challenge of the Week!
Now we all have to stay at home again, we thought we would challenge you to build your very own homes for your toys. We have had a go ourselves using Lego! Please feel free to use Lego or any other materials you find around your house. The only rule is... have fun! We can't wait to see your models! Good luck!
Worry Jar - ELSAA worry jar can be incredibly helpful for children to dump/write down their worries.
Lockdown Support 2020
Week 11
Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
In these difficult times many of us have found comfort in the form of rainbows. They have been painted, drawn and stuck up in our windows as a symbol of hope.
It feels very fitting to end the Summer Term Well-being tasks with something colourful like a rainbow. I challenge the children to go on a Rainbow Scavenger Hunt! Find things around your house and lay them out onto the floor into a rainbow shape! Have lots of fun and remember to send in your photographs, we would love to see them too! 🌈
The Tree of Strength
Tree of Strength Instructions:
Use a large sheet of paper. Lay your hand on the paper, fingers spread, with part of your arm on the paper as well. Trace your arm and hand, leaving the tips of the fingers open (picture 1). This will become the base of your tree – your arm is the trunk of the tree and the fingers are the beginning of branches.
At the end of the open finger tips, extend the drawing to create more branches. At the end of the branches, draw several large leaves, making them large enough that you can write in each one (picture 2).
On each leaf write one thing that helps you get through a difficult time – this can include personal strengths, coping strategies, enjoyable activities, and supportive people.
Color, paint, or decorate your tree as you wish (picture 3).
Have fun with this, you have all shown so much strength throughout this difficult time!
Mapping Feelings
There is a physiological response to every emotion we experience. Helping your child make the connection between these physiological responses and the emotions they are caused by is key when teaching coping skills to children.
Use this body map to help your child learn what happens to their bodies in different emotional states. Get them to color in the different parts of their body that they can feel reacting.
Summer Holiday Challenge This summer holiday challenge diary is for you to print off to give to your children. There are 30 challenges with a diary sheet for each. This diary will hopefully help children to stay positive over the holidays in a mindful and fun way.
Week 10
Looking ahead!
As we approach the end of the summer term, in school we focus on transitioning into the children’s new classes for September. Here are some activities you can do at home to help talk about the transition into their new year group.
Vision board – Have the children create a vision board of things they want to do in the future. You could suggest they think about tomorrow, next week, or over the summer, or even next school year! You can include drawings, cut out magazines, write your own sentences or even include your own photographs.
All about me – Draw a self portrait or glue a photograph of yourself to the middle of some paper. Around the edges write some words that best describe you. Are you an animal lover? Are you sporty? What’s your favourite food? Who is your best friend at school? This is a brilliant way for your new Class Teacher to get to know all about you!
If you are feeling worried about the wellbeing of your children at home right now, try not to worry about the set school work. The other stuff they will catch up with later on. It’s important to remember children who are having a hard time regulating their emotions struggle to take in information well.
There is a 5 a day for wellbeing explained on the MIND website.
• Connect
• Give
• Notice
• Learn something new
• Be active
Try and fit all of those things in.
Connect with others - can be a phone call to a friend, zoom chat, facetime etc. meeting up with other people and maintaining social distancing of course!
Give is about helping others in some way. Make them feel important and give them jobs to do to help.
Notice is about mindfulness or just noticing things when you go out for walks. Notice the bees on the flowers, notice the clouds in the sky.
Learn is about learning something new. Let them choose something they want to learn to do or to learn about. I am following a lovely mum on Instagram who is doing all her own lessons now and yesterday the children learnt about bees. Don't be scared of doing your own thing. Follow their interests.
Be active is just that. Kids need to be active and run some energy off. Make sure they get out every day and get them exercising in someway.
Design a poster competition We invite children under 12 to design a poster to say why littering is bad for the Forest and why you #LoveYourForest.
Talking about Lockdown As we ease out of lockdown this resource can help children talk about the emotions they have felt during this turbulent time
50 activities to try at home! This collection of activities/ideas is simply here to help parents and carers find fun things to do if they find themselves unexpectedly at home with younger children.
Make the Monster feel better Make the monster feel better by suggesting things he could do when he feels angry, sad or worried.
Distract yourself When the worry feelings pop into your mind what can you do to distract yourself? Children can be encouraged to think about more positive things or to get active and do something else.
“While we can’t hug” This short video is a lovely way of showing how you can maintain connection while staying physically distant from others - if you haven't seen it yet, we recommend giving it a quick watch! Click here to watch:
60 Motivational Minutes
“No Worries Activities”
Week 6
Gloucestershire Lego Challenge
FREE Royal Mail cards Say thank you to your heroes Show your gratitude and appreciation with a free pack of greeting cards
How to go back to school - Free e-book Parsley Mimblewood returns! This time with extra CAKE… Over 100,000 people around the world have now downloaded How to NOT Go to School, the story I wrote to help the kids in my class deal with school shutdown. Now, as families and schools begin to work out how children can return, this second story helps children come to terms with the new normal in their classrooms and playgrounds. Some of Parsley’s readers around the world are already back at school. For some, it’s still a long way off. Hopefully, this story can help children talk about coming back whenever it’s safe to do so.
Mindfulness Minutes
The Wildlife Trust - 30 days wild challenge pack This June, join thousands of people taking part in our annual nature challenge, 30 Days Wild! We want you to do one wild thing a day throughout the whole month: for your health, wellbeing and for the planet. That’s 30 simple, fun and exciting Random Acts of Wildness.
Young Minds Beano games and activities Together with Beano we've created some daily activities to help families look after their wellbeing during self-isolation.
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