Join in and play with our Playground Leaders team!

 Our Playground Leaders team met with Mrs Seaton last week where they practised leading some traditional playground games, with the aim to play them during break or lunch and encourage others to join them. The Playground Leaders are always looking for ways to encourage people to show values such as friendship, kindness and fairness, so if you have more ideas, share them with your class rep :)

Fun lunchtimes at High Street for World Smile Day

To recognise World Smile Day, children at High Street spent their Monday lunchtime taking part in a Make Them Smile gameshow, to help raise awareness for the cleft lip and palate charity Smile Train.

The children could tell their silliest joke, do their craziest dance move and pull their funniest face to try and turn Miss Bennett's and Miss Lizzimore's frowns upside down! 

At Manor Way a similar game took place after school where Miss Truong was a fierce competitor!

Hope these pictures from our day bring a smile to your face too!

Jeans for Genes Day 2021 - wear denim and donate!

 We will be wearing our denim and jeans on

 Friday 17th September 

to raise money to fund genetic research.

We can show kindness, empathy and appreciation by donating money to good causes such as Jeans for Genes Day.  

Suggested donation is 50p.

The power of kindness

The Red Cross have made resources to find out how children and young people can practise kindness every day, which is especially important during the coronavirus emergency.

- Learn about the power of kindness
- Carry out kind acts
- Consider how they can be kind to themselves and others

- Being grateful

- Ways to cope

- Kindness in the community

https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resources/kindness-calendar##

Always Club at High Street on French Day

Six invitees from High Street had a special French Always Club this week with Madame Seaton.

They enjoyed a little pique-nique with jus d'orange, croissants, pommes and bananes.

They made special kindness cards to give to the kindest people they know.

Laughter is the best medicine - World Mental Health Day is approaching!

On Friday some children from the Manor Way Wellbeing Team met with Mrs Seaton to get ready for World Mental Health Day on Thursday 10th October.

They talked about why yellow is such a positive colour and why it makes people feel good, and then practised some of the activities that will be occurring throughout the day to promote Positive Mental Wellbeing.

We told jokes and and had some laughter therapy; there were some classics, some silly and some downright wacky jokes but they had us all in stitches! Mrs Seaton even cackled like at witch at some!

Then we planned out some positive quotes and phrases that we can use to decorate the playground with on Thursday suich as:

You are amazing, just the way you are.

Never give up hope.

When people try to bring you down, just keeping going up!

Don't worry, be happy!

Be yourself!

You are enough.

Follow your heart!

If you are ever feeling down, find someone to talk to, don't hold it in - in fact, talk to your Wellbeing Team class rep - they will always try to make you feel better!