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This morning we welcomed Amanda and Sarah from Scottish Mediation to train all our Primary 6 pupils on how to use Peer Mediation. Although specific Primary 6 children have been selected to be a Magical Mediator next session, we recognised that these are imported life skills and invited all our P6 children to attend the training.
During health week we looked at different ways we could keep our bodies healthy.
We started each day with our exercises. We stretched and then exercised until we were a little bit hot. We talked about why we felt hot, saying it was because we were making our hearts beat faster and exercising out hearts was a healthy thing to do.
Before snack we always wash our hands to wash away the germs that might be there that could give us an upset tummy. We all watched our “Handy DVD” that shows us the best way to wash our hands and tells us when we should wash our hands.
We looked at our snack and could talk about all the things that we had for snack that were healthy foods. We enjoy lots of fruit and vegetables with snack and always have milk and water.
After snack we brush our teeth and we all have our own toothbrushes with our special picture. We use a small amount of toothpaste to clean our teeth and we all know that if we do not brush our teeth they can “go bad” and “can be sore”.
We enjoy lots of outdoor play and love to use our muscles to run around, to move equipment and to play. We enjoy playing on our climbing frame, bikes, scooters and balance bikes.
So we have reached the end of Health Week 2018. Our class have done so well this whole week and I am so pleased at how much they participated in and tried new things.
Today we had our Health Week assembly where each class had to go up and tell the school about someting they had done during Health Week this year. We decided to talk about our fruit smoothies and how we prepared them.
We also got to join in with a Jump Start Johnny dance fitness video at assemly which is something that P5 had been doing this week.
Our healthy snack people for today:
Well done to you guys!
To finish off our healthy week, we went out for our Daily Mile and Daily Skip.
I hope everyone had a good week and thaat we are all feeling a little bit more healthy!
Another fantastic day for Primary 4 this Health Week. I am betting that lots of us will sleep well tonight!
Today we began with some Kuk Sool Won which is a type of martial arts! We learned lots of different poses and how they fit together in a sequence. The most important part of Kuk Sool Won is focus and concentration to allow the student to become the best they can be. He also taught us about getting back up again if we fall and about resilience.
Then he showed us how they never hurt anyone and that everyone trusts each other which means they can train safely. He even used some of us to demonstrate!
Today for our healthy snack photo we had 10 children! Well done guys!
After break we tried some relaxation time with music, which was inspired by P6, and we got to bring in blankets and cushions so we could switch off and clear our minds. Some of us chose to just lie down, while others opted to sit quietly and draw.
We then participated in some Judo in the hall! We got to wear judo jackets and worked with partners to learn some judo techniques.
He also demonstrated with us!
(Remember that judo is not to be trained outside of a dojo or without a coach)
Of course, to end the day we had our 2018 Sports Day!
It was a beautiful day and each group tried their hardest on every station. We all did so well at our P4 races, even though we were very tired and warm by then!
We had the sack race first;
and then we had the flat running race;
Well done to everyone who took part and I’m sure we all did a brilliant job! We will find out the scores and winners tommorrow at assembly.
Please remember that tomorrow we are back to our normal school uniform!
Some of our P5 children had an idea to run a Harry Potter Lunch Time Club. They made a plan of what they would do, collected the resources they needed and made up a register.
This week the focus was on creating a wand and everyone who came along said they really enjoyed it and are looking forward to the next session.
We are on day 3 of Health Week now and my goodness our class have been busy again today!
To start us off today we looked at mental health and chose some mindfulness colouring sheets to colour in. We put instrumental music on and and chose to work in a place comfortable for us before we sat quietly and coloured. This helped us to calm down and to clear our minds.
10 people had healthy snacks today! Can we make it to 11 or maybe even higher tomorrow?
After break we had so much fun making our own smoothies! We had to make sure everything had been washed (including our hands!) and that the surfaces were clean before we could begin. We were working in pairs or threes and we had to pick 2 or 3 different fruits to put in our smoothie. We could choose from pineapple, mango, banana, pear or apple.
Then we were able to work together to cut the fruit, measure the orange juice and pop in some natural yoghurt! All of this was added together in the blender.
We then blended the fruit together with the help of an adult and watched as it changed colour!
All of our smoothies were slightly different and tasted different too! We each got to have at least 1/2 a cup of smoothie, although some people chose to half less if they didn’t enjoy theirs. Thankfully we mostly had some very happy faces!
After lunch we did some GoNoodle dances and yoga together and we were all very tired after that!
We had a break and then went for Daily Mile which we were running in the sun today!
Remember, it is Sports Day tomorrow so make sure you have your water bottles and are ready to go!
We also have a couple of visitors coming to see us and show us some new activities so be prepared for another update tomorrow!
We have been very busy once again for Day 2 of Health Week!
We began our morning by discussing our Emotion Works cogs and identifying which cog the words or phrases on the board came under; emotions, behaviours, body sensations, triggers or regulation strategies. This made way for a lot of discussion and we all had to justify our answers and agree as a class. We decided that some of them even came under 2 different categories depending on the feelings that you had towards them.
We then finished our PE from yesterday out in the sunshine. It was very hard work once we got to the final station!
We are trying to have healthy snacks this week so we are taking a daily picture of our healthy eaters! We had 5 yesterday and today we had 9! Well done guys!
After break we had a brilliant surprise in the hall, where we were looking at our bodies with the Glasgow Science Centre. There were lots of different stations teaching us so many different things from our organs, heat in our bodies and our memory:
to the effects that smoking and drinking have on our faces and our lungs!
It was a brilliant, active and interesting workshop which we all loved!
Then after lunch we had a visit from Active Schools and we did lots of athletics outside. We tried lots of different activities and were definitely tired out when we got back in the classroom!
I cannot wait to see what we get up to tomorrow for Day 3!
We had a very busy day in Primary 6 today! We all enjoyed our judo session this morning and loved learning lots of new skills. In the afternoon, we went out to practise our skipping. The P7s have been teaching us lots of rhymes and skipping games, which are great for our health and fitness, as well as being a lot of fun!
