3KR Pumpkin-grams

Today we have been talking about the best treat that anyone could hope for - kindness! ❤️

So we all wrote a pumpkin-gram to someone in class and someone special to us to tell them how much we appreciate them!

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Hello Yellow! 4JI

 Such a fantastic day celebrating Hello Yellow! The children thoroughly enjoyed participating in activities and discussing our Mental Health. Remember, you wouldn’t hide a broken arm, so let’s not hide our feelings either!

Year 1MS - Children's Mental Heath week.

As part of Children's Mental Health week, Miss Irvine asked us to discuss the word 'brave'.
What does brave mean and when have we been brave?

The children had some lovely examples of when they were brave such as going to their first swimming lesson or going onto a big slide at the park.

We drew a picture and wrote a sentence for Miss Irvine showing her when we have been brave.

When talking about bravery, we realised it can be quite scary going to the 'big' classes. Why not test our bravery by going up to Miss Irvine's year 3 class and handing her our work?

Well done year 1 for being brave!

3JI Newsround Reporters

As part of our PSHE work about into links around the world, we learnt about the Australian bush fires that are occurring at the moment. The children knew lots of facts already about this, and used these facts and Newsround clips to write their own news reports. They were fantastic! 

Year 4 Mindfulness Session

As it is Children's Mental Health week, the children were treated to a mindfulness session, in which they learnt various techniques about how to remain calm under pressure and got to play a few mindfulness games as well! The children really enjoyed this session, thank you Beryl!

Archie's Visit to West Ham

Ogbonna and Xande Silva help launch ground-breaking healthy eating app

West Ham United Foundation and Havering Council have created a first of its kind partnership to educate children about healthy living. 
 
Veggie Run is the first Council-created app in England to educate children about healthy eating.
 
Ten pupils from Havering primary schools visited the London Stadium in their new Veggie Run printed West Ham United home kits, and met with the club’s players Angelo Ogbonna and Xande Silva to officially launch the collaboration yesterday. 
 
Veggie Run has been downloaded more than 20,000 times since the app launched in April 2018 by the Council’s HES Catering Service. 

Through digital gameplay, children are encouraged to dodge unhealthy foods and learn about the rewards of eating a healthy school catered lunch. Since launching, school catered meal uptake in the borough has increased by 14% within one academic term.

This first of its kind collaboration will see the Foundation deliver their ‘Healthy Hammers’ programme at more than half of the primary and junior schools in the borough, educating 2,400 children about the benefits of healthy living.

The Club's recently launched Players’ Project will ensure that this programme gets the support it deserves. We look forward to seeing it grow and develop in the coming months. 

Joseph Lyons
 

Cabinet Member for Education, Children & Families and councillor Robert Benham said: "At a time when the country is facing a childhood obesity epidemic, it’s great to see Havering at the forefront of innovation with Veggie Run and the West Ham United Foundation. 

"Creating council first  partnerships with a premiership football foundation supports our borough’s proactive approach to educating children about the importance of healthy living”
 
Dr Marilena Korkodilos, London deputy director at Public Health England, said: “Veggie Run is a fun app to help children understand about healthy eating and directly rewards them with sports-based prizes.

"It is encouraging to see a local authority thinking innovatively about reducing child obesity and creating a tool that children can engage with.”
 
Joseph Lyons, Chief Executive Officer at the West Ham United Foundation, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Havering Council and supporting the Veggie Run app, a ground-breaking initiative that we believe will be of great benefit to schoolchildren in the heart of West Ham United’s local community. 

"The Club's recently launched Players’ Project will ensure that this programme gets the support it deserves. We look forward to seeing it grow and develop in the coming months, to make a real positive difference to the lives of schoolchildren throughout Havering.”

Thrive at Suttons Primary School

Shining the Light: Suttons Primary School

Here in the office we don’t always get the opportunity to see all the wonderful work that you are doing in your settings, so we were delighted when earlier this term one of our new relationship managers, Mel Fisher, visited Suttons Primary School in Hornchurch and reported back. Mel sat down with the Deputy Head and Thrive practitioner Karen Blake for a chat about how Suttons Primary discovered Thrive, their wonderful Thrive room and how beneficial they’ve found Thrive in their setting. Before Suttons Primary decided to introduce Thrive, Karen tells us that they visited a school in a neighbouring borough to make sure that it was right for them. They wanted to ensure that Thrive could help support children who had experienced significant trauma and had attachment disorder. The school they visited had practised Thrive for several years, and after the visit they were convinced that it would be a good option for them! Suttons Primary now have three licensed practitioners, one of whom is delivering Thrive full time to individual children.

Suttons’ Thrive room is small but perfectly formed and licensed practitioners are constantly adding to the resources. They’ve found that the children love creative arts and crafts, messy play, small world toys and sand trays. Karen shared that one of the children finds communicating via building Lego scenes is particularly beneficial, so they have bought Lego sets for them to work with. They’ve also arranged for this child to spend one day every week at a farm; Karen says that it is important that they learn to feel safe and feel happy.  They also utilise their Thrive room as a ‘Chill and Chat’ space during lunchtime when their most vulnerable children often seek out support or ‘time out’.  What Karen found most striking since introducing Thrive at Suttons Primary is that the amount of disclosures made by children has considerably increased. Thrive has made children feel safe enough to talk. The school have also found it particularly beneficial to have a member of their Senior Leadership Team trained in Thrive to drive the process forward. As Karen is the Deputy Head, her role has been vital in ensuring that Thrive remains high profile. She says that “Thrive has become part of who we are and what we believe in as a school.”  If you would like a member of your senior leadership team trained in Thrive, you may be interested in our new courses intended for Senior Leaders. Click here to find out more.

Healthy Eating Workshop - YEar 3

Year 3 enjoyed learning about eating healthy in the workshop yesterday.

They especially enjoyed the smoothies they made then got to taste.

Suttons celebrate St George's Day

3NL - Breathe, Relax and Yoga!

After a busy day rehearsing for the LKS2 School Play, 3NL had a relaxing time learning some Yoga poses and breathing techniques yesterday.

We felt totally relaxed by the end of the session.

3NL - Visiting HOPWA House

In 3NL we have been doing some creative writing around the Christmas advert, from a few years ago, about the man in the moon. Following on from this we discussed how some of the elderly may be without family and lonely at Christmas time.


Therefore we decided to visit HOPWA House to take some gifts to some of their residents and sing Carols to spread goodwill.


Thank you to all of the generous parents who provided some thoughtful gifts.

As we had enjoyed reading week so much we also decided to take our favourite reading books to share with them.

The whole morning was enjoyed by both young and old...

4JI Homework

For homework over the half term in Year 4, we researched different cities and produced some incredibly informative and creative projects. 

The children were very proud of their accomplishments and read some of their facts aloud to the class.