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P2/3 Health Week Day 1

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Fenwick Primary School Health Week
23rd – 27th May 2022


Primary 2/3 had a great start to Health Week today. Pupils started the morning with a mindfulness colouring soft start.

RSHP

The soft start was followed by Primary 2/3 completing a RSHP lesson. They discussed the body parts they can see with their clothes on and then learned the correct vocabulary for the body parts they can not see with their clothes on. In pairs, pupils labelled body diagrams demonstrating what they had learned. They discussed the importance of knowing and understanding the correct names for these body parts and reinforced their learning that these parts are private. Primary 2/3 pupils were also able to identify that each person is unique and that boys and girls have similarities as well as differences.

PAThS
Embarrassed

Today the children learned all about the feeling ’embarrassed’ and how this feels inside and looks outside our bodies. They identified that it could feel really warm and that they might freeze on the spot. They also identified that they might not stop laughing or they might have a red face. They discussed examples of times they felt embarrassed.

PAThS pupil of the day

Today’s PAThS pupil of the day loved receiving compliments from her peers and also complimenting herself.

Massage in Schools

After lunch the class participated in a massage in schools session in the class which helped to calm everybody down after lunch time.

PE – Taekwondo

We ended our day with a taekwondo session delivered by our visitor Gavin Butler from the Fenwick Taekwondo Club The pupils really showed Mr Butler how respectful and responsible they can be by listening carefully to instructions and copying demonstrations which made for a fun filled session had by all.

Important note

Now we are looking forward to another jam packed day tomorrow. We have lots of outdoor sports activities tomorrow so please make sure that pupils have appropriate and comfortable clothing.

P2/3 IDL Topic (Stereotypes)

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IDL – The Vikings

Primary 2/3 were introduced to their new IDL topic today which is the Vikings.

Firstly they learned about stereotypes and discussed the stereotypes they have about different people in society. To do this, we made links to our learning of the visualisation strategy in literacy and by visualising different people in society we were able to discuss how we thought these people looked and acted then noted the pupil’s thoughts on the board.

When the pupils were asked to explain what a stereotype was in their own words they said;
‘it is your way of describing a certain person’ (Jessica)
‘it is basically how you describe someone but it is not always the truth, it’s your opinion’ (Eve)
‘it is for example a teenager might be sassy but not all of them might be sassy’ (Riley)

Next, the pupils discussed their stereotypes of Vikings which we recorded on the board before drawing how we thought a Viking might look.

Finally we discussed why it is important to know about stereotypes when learning about history. The pupils identified that if we always have stereotypes it means we will not fully understand what actually happened or how things actually were.

P2/3 Health and Wellbeing

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Health and Wellbeing Afternoon in P2/3

Yesterday afternoon Primary 2/3 participated in peer massage which got them all relaxed with a clear mindset ready to start their PAThS lesson.

PAThS

This was followed by our PAThS lesson where we selected a PAThS pupil to receive compliments. This boy was very polite and responded saying thank you to each of his compliments.

Our PAThS lesson focused on making friendships. We re-capped what we had discussed before the Spring break about ‘what makes a good friend?’ then spoke about and shared examples of how we could make friends with new people. Some suggestions included;

  • introduce yourself to them
  • ask them to join in with your game
  • ask if you can play with them
  • ask questions about them like what is your name and what do you like to do?

The pupils then paired up with someone in the class who they don’t usually play with at playtime to carry out some role play situations and a couple of pairs were selected to show their to the class. They were very confident when doing this and the rest of the class were respectful when watching them. Super work from Primary 2/3!