Student Well-being
Community Spotlight: Year 5/6 Community
Focus: Setting intentions to take care of ourselves and others
In the Year 5/6 community, we have been using our Wellbeing Block to explore different avenues of taking care of our mental wellbeing. We have been beginning our sessions by getting up and moving our bodies. The students have been taking on many different kinds of physical challenges in the last few weeks, including burpee challenges, squat challenges and planking challenges. We have been discussing how we feel after doing short, high intensity exercises, apart from being out of breath!
After our short exercise routine we have been talking about the importance of having a sacred space to relax and unwind, and how we can use this space to set positive intentions for our day. This video helped us to understand why intentions are important and how to make them:
Here are some intentions we came up with as a community:
| My goal is to go for a walk or bike ride |
| I am going to try to read three chapters of my book by the end of today |
| Today I will create something |
| Today I will call a friend |
| I will try my best to be happy through lockdown |
| Today I will go outside for 20 minutes |
| Today I will play with a friend |
| Today I will give hope to a person in need |
| I agree to help my family through lockdown |
| Today I will make something to play with |
| Today I will do things that make me happy |
| I agree to stay positive throughout the day |
| Today I will spend time with my siblings |
| My goal for today is to put a smile on someone’s face |
| Today I will try something new |
| Today I will go outside and embrace nature |
Here are some of the intention jars our students created:
School Holidays in Lockdown 6.0
No doubt it can be tricky to entertain a house of children in the middle of lockdown, here are some fun ideas that might keep the children entertained over the next two weeks!
- Building an indoor cubby or outside tepee
- Scavenger hunts
- Puzzles, Card games and board games
- Gardening or pick and press flowers
- Paper plane making – turn it into a competition
- Build a marble run from round materials
- Thinklum coding and robotics school offer Online Coding School Holidays Camps for Kids
- Build a Domino trail
- Indoor or outdoor treasure hunt
- Water play with sprinklers - make sure it is supervised, but a fun way to cool down
- Scavenger hunt in your yard – Nature Play SA have some resources to use for scavenger hunts and outdoor play
- Make sock puppets – a few socks, big buttons, needle and thread or glue, then put on a play
- Chalk art –draw, write, on concrete – your driveway, a path – share a positive message with your neighbourhood
- Make a kite and fly it
- Play frisbee
- Let off some energy with Totem Tennis
- Bounce on a trampoline
- Try origami
- Encourage nature play
Take care and stay safe,
Lauren Borg
Student Well-being Leader