On Rainbow Friday Year 3 discussed the meaning of pride. They thought about times where they have felt proud of themselves or others, and thought about why pride is important to LGBTQ+ people. They also learnt about some of the origins of the rainbow flag, including what each colour represents, before creating their own progress flags out of collage materials.
Children at West Boldon Primary celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week this week (February 7th – 13th 2022).
Mrs Askwith (our pastoral and wellbeing mentor) spent some time with each class, talking about our own wellbeing, spreading kindness, and focussing on this year’s theme ‘Growing Together’.
Children also took part in a yoga session where they channelled all of their energy, worries and anxieties. Everyone came out of their session incredibly calm!
Finally, on Friday, to round off the week, children were invited to come to school wearing their most expressive outfits to ‘Dress to Express’, sharing their individuality and celebrating their uniqueness.
What a wonderful week we have had!
Reception
Year 1
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 6 also watched the video below and created their own artwork based on it.
On Tuesday 8th February 2022, children in West Boldon Primary recognised Safer Internet Day.
In their PSHE lessons, they discussed this year’s theme: ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. Here are some thing they have been doing to recognise and learn about this important day.
Year 1 listened to a story about Digiduck and how to behave kindly online and how to keep ourselves safe. They discussed and sorted out things we should and shouldnโt do online and pretended to be Digiduck and Wise_Owl to help others to know what to do or not do online.
Watch the video below to see Year 2 play Internet Traffic Light game for internet safety day. If they think an app/website is green (right for them) they can step forward twice, if theyโre unsure (yellow) and if they think it is not right for then (red) they stand still.
โChildren explained why they chose each traffic light for each app/website and how they can be safe online.
Children in Year 3 thought about their online community, and their online world. They learned that their community refers to the people they know in real life, such as friends and family, and their world refers to the people they don’t know in real life, such as celebrities, footballers and Youtubers.
They wrote down 3 people from their community, and 2 people from their world – thinking for each about how they connect with these people online. They then talked about how we communicate with others in many different ways.
As part of Safer Internet Day Year 4 looked at how our actions and words can harm others.
We learned about norms and how our community has lots of norms to help us stay happy and healthy.
In small groups we created a norm that would help us stay safe on the internet. We then signed it to pledge that we would stick to it.
Year 6 read Sita’s story and discussed how they would respond, if they were her, to the different scenarios. They thought about the best ways to keep safe, while also benefit the friendship.
On Friday 19th November, at West Boldon we celebrated Children in Need in style! Children were able to come to school in their sportswear and took part in lots of different activities in the classes to recognise the day.
Reception children learned all about Children in Need and why it is important, before taking part in the Joe Wicks Live Lesson.
In Year 1, the children enjoyed creating some split-pin Pudseys and they also took part in the Joe Wicks Live Lesson for Children in Need!
Here are Year 2 children in their Children in Need costumes and sports wear!
Year 3 looked fabulous in their sports-wear today too!
Year 3 children also completed a Pudsey draw along, where the had to follow the instructions carefully to draw the perfect Pudsey.
Year 4 also joined in with Joe Wicks live which was a lot of fun but quite hard work! They then had a competition to design a new bandana for Pudsey which was judged by Mr McCormack, Mrs Buck and Mrs Bingham. Millie’s design was chosen as the winner. Well done, Millie!
Year 5 coloured in and decorated some Pudsey bears with some important messages – We are all equal, we are all the same.
Year 6 created some posters for their outdoor classroom doors to give passers by information on Children in Need and why it is so important to donate.
At West Boldon we celebrated Anti-Bullying Week during the week 15th-19th November 2021.
This year’s theme is ‘One Kind Word’. Kindness is more important today than it has ever been. The isolation of the last year has underlined how little acts of consideration can break down barriers and brighten the lives of the people around us.
Our children were able to come to school wearing odd socks on Monday 15th November to recognise and celebrate all of our individual differences.
Each year group took part in a different activity throughout the week to recognise and understand the importance of Anti-Bullying Week.
As part of Year 3’s lesson they made notes of some ideas of ways they could show kindness and respect to one another:
“smile at people”
“play with them”
“you can keep an eye out for them”
“tell them a joke”
Year 5 also showed their understanding of what bullying is. Here are their ideas:
The children in Year 3 have had fun this week taking on the role of the teacher.
They had to plan a lesson in pairs, thinking about what they wanted to teach, resources needed and behaviour expectations.
Today they implemented their plans and had 10 minutes to teach a new skill to the class.
We had lessons such as times tables, maths partitioning and drawing. I think we have some future teachers in the making.
As part of Year 3’s 3D PSHE unit, they are learning about e-Safety. Today they discussed the importance of privacy and keeping our personal information safe.
In this lesson they had to write down a secret in ‘invisible ink’ on a post it note (using their finger!) and put them in the secrets jar. They then imagined how they would feel if the jar was stolen!
This led on to a great discussion about what things we should keep to ourself online, and how to keep ourselves and our ‘secrets’ and personal information safe from harm.
Year 2 listened to the well known story of Elmer the Elephant by David McKee and talked about being unique. They made Their own bespoke elephants to reflect their own personalities and differences.
To celebrate International Pride Day, Year 5 have been learning about diversity and how important it is to be kind to everyone in our community. They have designed Pride T-shirts that they feel best represents the kindness and respect that they have for the LGBT+ community.
Year 6 had a Friday afternoon session on Diversity. They wrote what diversity meant to each of them, then created profiles about themselves to show how they are different from one another. They then found someone else in the year group that had their own special values.
Year 6 also spent time decorating their classroom door to show how inclusive and accepting their classroom is. They completed acrostics for the inside of the classroom and decorated bunting in bright colours for the outside.
We have also spent some time decorating our school gates with the rainbow flag and pictures and information about LGBT+ icons in different fields.
This week to recognise Anti-Bullying Week at West Boldon we had an Odd Socks Day!
It was a great way to celebrate what makes us all different and to encourage people to express themselves and celebrate their individuality and what makes us all unique! Here are some colourful socks worn by our Year 2 children.
โIt taught me to be kind onlineโ โ Kaiden
โIt taught me that playing games that are too old for me because I will be playing with adults and might be more at risk of cyber-bullyingโ โ Codey
โIf I was cyber-bullied it would make me feel sadโ โ Megan
โI can show people respect online by understanding they have different ideasโ โ Bubacarr
Further up the school in Year 6, Class 12 took part in activities to understand Anti-Bullying Week 2020. They had great discussions about bullying, the victim and perpetrator and empathy. Here is some of their fantastic work: