Being Children’s Mental Health week this Week, there is no better time to introduce to you our new Drongan Primary Wellbeing Champions.
Some of our P6 and P6/7 pupils recently took part in several weeks of training and are eager and ready to take on their new and very important role within our school.
We are very proud of our young people for acknowledging the importance of mental wellbeing and taking on such a responsibility.
Congratulations to them all…we can’t wait to see the positive influence they have on our younger pupils.
Next week we are celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week.
As you know, supporting mental wellbeing is already a huge priority at Drongan PS and is weaved through our daily curriculum.
Next week there will be an even bigger focus on mental wellbeing, with our pupils learning more about what mental health is and the different emotions that can be experienced and how to cope with them.
Part of the message children will learn, is that each one of them is unique and should be proud of who they are.
So, on Thursday 10th February we are encouraging children to come to school ‘Dressed to Express’. This could be wearing an outfit/colours that best match their personality, showing off their favourite hairstyles. Subtle or standout…anything goes!
No money donation will be required. This will simply be a day for children to express themselves and support this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week.
Look out for further posts next week, with tips and ideas on how you can help support your child/children’s mental health at home.
A huge thank you must go to one of our parents, Mrs Alma Wightman.
Her lovely, handmade ‘Worry Worms’ that she kindly donated for our LIAM group (a small group of children who experience mild/moderate anxiety) have been a huge hit!
Mrs Wightman has made us many more, which I am sure will be a great addition to the coping tools available for our children.
We have continued on our Rights Respecting journey over the last few months and the RRSA committee have worked hard to think of activities and ideas to help our pupils to learn more about different rights.
Climate Change
Article 24 – Children have the right to good health care, nutritious food and clean drinking water
Article 27 – Children have a right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical and mental needs.
Global Goals –
During the COP 26 conference pupils took part in many activities that allowed them to learn more about the effects of climate change on our planet and how children’s rights are being affected.
P1a enjoyed learning and singing a song about how they can take small steps to help stop climate change.
P4b telling us what they can do to reduce their Carbon Footprint.
P2 children made Nature Mandalas. A mandala is a common design among many different cultures. A mandala is a symbol representing the universe and life. The circular design is meant to show how everything in life is connected.P7 made are taking action against climate change and have made their very own ‘Forest of Promises’P1 also made a ‘Promise Tree’ showing the different ways they can help in the fight against climate change.P4b create climate change poems to help them understand more about the effects of climate change on our planet.
P5 made their own ‘Protest Banners’ and learned how peaceful protesting can help raise awareness of important issues.
Anti- bullying Week
Article 2 – All children have rights without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status.
Article 12 – Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views respectfully considered and taken seriously.
The children took part in ‘Anti-bullying Week’ and made the link between this and articles from Rights of the Child.
P4a discussed what respect looks like, feels like and sounds like. They created excellent Mind Maps demonstrating how they can show respect to others.
Children in P6/7 made Anti-bullying posters to be displayed around the school and community.
They also used scenario cards to open up discussion on different types of bullying.
Now that we are few weeks into our new school year, and our pupils have had time to settle into their new classes, we would like to ask them to complete a simple well-being check in form as part of their homework this week. Children will be told about this in school and shown the form.
This form will allow us to check how our pupils are feeling based on the 8 well-being indicators -Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included.
This is a simple form that P4-7 children should be able to complete independently. However, we would encourage parents to sit alongside their P3 children as they complete this and support where needed.
Our P2 pupils will complete this in class.
Our new P1 pupils won’t complete this activity until Term 3: giving them more time to learn about the wellbeing indicators.
If pupils could click on the link below to complete the form before Friday 1st October that would be much appreciated.
We have been working hard during the last year helping our children learn more about their rights.
We took part in Outright 2020 which focused on the affect of climate change, we celebrated International Women’s Day as well as celebrating and embracing Inclusion and Diversity. We placed a huge focus on mental health and celebrated Children’s Mental Health week by sharing lots of videos and activities to support this.
Each month the RRS school committee will continue to choose a ‘Right of the Month’ that will be delivered to each class to focus on and discuss. These will continue to be put on the blog and school app for everyone to learn about.
Please have a look at our SWAY, which shows our work so far with Children’s rights Our RRS Journey
Here is a reminders of the United Nations Rights of the Child.
Huge well done to the boys and girls and their families that took part in our Easter Community Orienteering Challenge organised by the RRS/Health Committee.
Jandre Coetzee P1a, Jackson Stevens P1a, Finlay Muir P1b, Seren Anderson P1b, Darcie Mair P1b, Harry Irwin P2a, Riley Smith P3a, Jessica Gemmell P4, Jayden Smith P5 and Ava Kiltie P5.
The Rights Respecting school committee were out and about in Drongan today taking pictures in and around our community.
We have put all the pictures together and we are encouraging you to get together with your friends or family and go on an orienteering hunt around the village to find the images. When you find them, tick them off and take a picture or a selfie of you at the spot. Some are trickier than others!
Now that we have welcomed all our pupils back to school, we would like for them to complete a simple well-being check in form as part of their homework this week. Children will be told about this in school this week and shown the form.
This form will allow us to check how our pupils are feeling based on the 8 well-being indicators -Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included.
This is a simple form that P4-7 children should be able to complete independently. However, we would encourage the parents of our P1-3 children to sit alongside them as they complete this and support where needed.
If pupils could click on the link below to complete the form before Friday 2nd April that would be much appreciated.
Today is International Women’s Day. Let’s celebrate the achievements of women all around the world and help raise awareness of inequality between men and women and boys and girls in less developed countries of the world.
International Women’s Day celebrates the achievements of women and girls worldwide. In some developing countries around the world, women and girls are still treated unfairly compared to men…
