Reaching high for the best for your child

 As you know, from Monday’s Values assembly, this week is Children’s Mental Health week, and we are completing activities to support and promote positive mental health and wellbeing. Each day, I (Mrs Jeffries) will share my activities with you and they may even give you a few ideas for what you could do. My activities for each jigsaw piece on Monday were:

Physical - I went on a walk in the cold with my dog and I felt both exhausted and exhilarated after it.

Give Back - My sister is home schooling her children while she is working from home (like so many amazing parents are doing right now). Both her and her husband had important meetings, so I volunteered to ‘virtually babysit’ her children. We had a scavenger hunt over Zoom which ended up with lots of loud laughter and having a sweet treat very close to dinnertime. The three of us had a lot of fun.

Self-Care - One of my Christmas presents was a penguin face mask and hair treatment to pamper myself with so I decided to use them to look after myself. My family could not stop laughing at the cartoon penguin on my face but it was impossible for me to do the same when I was wearing it!

I was then able to colour in three of my jigsaw pieces and it certainly put a smile on my face. I reflected on how to help others, I felt refreshed and I had fun, it was so lovely to do things that made me feel happy and made others feel the same. Don’t forget to colour in your pieces ready to share with your teacher at the end of the week. We are looking forward to hearing about all of the super things you are doing and then we will be able to share some as ideas for future Wellbeing Wednesdays.