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Back To School - 8th March 2021

28/2/2021

Hello everyone.

I hope you have been ok and enjoying the last few days of the sunshine. We have many things this month to look forward to..

On the 4th March the school will celebrate World Book Day. I am so excited to read your stories based around the theme ' All About Me'. I know that Year 5/6 will be rewriting traditional tales- starring as the main character! (On Friday 12th March we will dress up as our favourite book characters).

But the most exciting news of all is that we are delighted to confirm that we will be welcoming ALL children back to school  from Monday 8th March 2021!

All the staff at VPS will be doing everything we can to make sure that you  can return to school safely.

I hope you enjoy reading the stories I have attached in this blog post and I look forward to seeing you all very soon.

Big smiles!
Emily

How are you feeling about the return to school? It is ok to feel a range of emotions - some of us may be excited and bubbling in the green zone, but some of us may feel a little anxious and will be feeling in the yellow or blue zone.

It is OK to feel differently about coming back to school - but just know that there are people who can support and listen to you. Think about who you could talk to about how you feel? Or maybe write out your thoughts? You can ask your teachers/TAs any questions you would like to know about your safe return. This week you can use Google Streams/Purple Mash/ Live meets to find out more about coming back to school.

Back to School after Coronavirus Story

Click this link below to read a wonderful story about returning to school after Corona Virus and what to expect.

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Parents Box

It has been a tough time for you and your little superheroes! But we are more than ready to welcome the children back to school.

There may be some anxieties about the return - here is a great guide from Young Minds that gives you advice on how to talk to your children about the return to school.

https://youngminds.org.uk/blog/supporting-a-child-returning-to-school-after-lockdown/

We have a vaccine!

‘We have a vaccine’ is a story to inform and help children to understand what the new vaccine might mean for all of us.
Children aren’t currently expected to be vaccinated but you might be hearing about it and perhaps wondering why you aren’t having it.

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Celebrating Children's Mental Health Week 2021

7/2/2021

Celebrating Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Hello VPS community...

Today marks the end of Children’s Mental Health Week 2021!

Since Monday we have had a great week taking part in Children’s Mental Health Week. I hope you enjoyed the various activities and circle times centred on the theme 'Express Yourself.'

As we learned this week ,'expressing yourself' is all about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. You have all been so creative sending in art work, poetry, music, photography and film to capture feelings and to express who you are!
I really do hope that the activities made you feel good and you enjoyed finding ways to express yourself this week.

However, I want you to remember who YOU are beyond this week.
We should always celebrate and be true to who we are.
The different ways you express your feelings is important. We are all unique and we are VERY special.

Please take a look at all of the AMAZING work that was submitted last week!
We are so very proud of how you got involved in the different activities.

This week our children at school have taken part in Mindfulness activities.
Here is a great photo of the KS2 bubble taking on ' Mindfulness Yoga! The Ks1 children really enjoyed the 'Wellness Warrior - The Power of Yet' videos to kick start their mornings!

Year 6 Circle Time

Ayesha's 3 main arguments for the discussion topic
'Children should learn about mental health in primary school'.

Salma and I were amazed at the discussion during Year 6 Circle Time on Friday. First of all, we watched this video called 'The Brain House'. This video talks about what happens in our brains when we feel strong emotions such as anxiety, fear and anger.

We then had a insightful conversation on how our mental and physical health has an impact on our bodies.

Year 6 are so confident and knowledgeable when it comes to talking about mental health. We are very proud of the mature discussion that took place.

Here is a collection of some fantastic Gruffalos! We hope to get all of your wonderful Gruffalos displayed in school to remind of us of this creative whole school Art Project! Thank you for getting involved and making this a huge success!

Some more excellent artwork!

Staff Gruffalos!

Yusuf explains his colour choices for his Gruffalo!

Not forgetting our wondeful Gruffalos sent in by parents!

As part of Children's Mental Health Week, reception have been thinking about their emotions. They used different food items to recreate some of these.

Year 6 created raps and songs about 'being who you want to be!'. They were fantastic and had such strong messages inside their lyrics! Winston created a music video of his lyrics - so creative. We loved it!

On Friday we took part in Place2Be's 'Dress To Express Day' - It was wonderful to see everyone dressed in bright colours and in outfits they felt best represented them as a person!

ELSA Blog

Back To School - 8th March 2021

We have a vaccine!

Celebrating Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Celebrating Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Ayesha's 3 main arguments for the discussion topic
'Children should learn about mental health in primary school'.

Here is a collection of some fantastic Gruffalos! We hope to get all of your wonderful Gruffalos displayed in school to remind of us of this creative whole school Art Project! Thank you for getting involved and making this a huge success!

Some more excellent artwork!

Staff Gruffalos!

Yusuf explains his colour choices for his Gruffalo!

Not forgetting our wondeful Gruffalos sent in by parents!

As part of Children's Mental Health Week, reception have been thinking about their emotions. They used different food items to recreate some of these.

Year 6 created raps and songs about 'being who you want to be!'. They were fantastic and had such strong messages inside their lyrics! Winston created a music video of his lyrics - so creative. We loved it!

On Friday we took part in Place2Be's 'Dress To Express Day' - It was wonderful to see everyone dressed in bright colours and in outfits they felt best represented them as a person!

Staff interviews about this year's theme ' Express Yourself'.

Interview with Alice - Year 3 teacher

Interview with Aoife - Year 2 teacher

Nazimah (Year 6 School Councillor) interviews Emily the Emotional Wellbeing Leader (Me) :)

Interview with Shyma - Trainee Teacher.

Year 5/6 All About Me Posters! Here is a selection below:

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ELSA Blog

Back To School - 8th March 2021

We have a vaccine!

Celebrating Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Celebrating Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Ayesha's 3 main arguments for the discussion topic 'Children should learn about mental health in primary school'.

Here is a collection of some fantastic Gruffalos! We hope to get all of your wonderful Gruffalos displayed in school to remind of us of this creative whole school Art Project! Thank you for getting involved and making this a huge success!

Some more excellent artwork!

Staff Gruffalos!

Yusuf explains his colour choices for his Gruffalo!

Not forgetting our wondeful Gruffalos sent in by parents! ​

As part of Children's Mental Health Week, reception have been thinking about their emotions. They used different food items to recreate some of these.

Year 6 created raps and songs about 'being who you want to be!'. They were fantastic and had such strong messages inside their lyrics! Winston created a music video of his lyrics - so creative. We loved it!

On Friday we took part in Place2Be's 'Dress To Express Day' - It was wonderful to see everyone dressed in bright colours and in outfits they felt best represented them as a person!

Staff interviews about this year's theme ' Express Yourself'.

Interview with Alice - Year 3 teacher

Interview with Aoife - Year 2 teacher

Nazimah (Year 6 School Councillor) interviews Emily the Emotional Wellbeing Leader (Me) :)

Interview with Shyma - Trainee Teacher.

Year 5/6 All About Me Posters! Here is a selection below:

ELSA Blog

Archives

Categories

Ayesha's 3 main arguments for the discussion topic
'Children should learn about mental health in primary school'.

Not forgetting our wondeful Gruffalos sent in by parents!