Old Mental Health & Wellbeing

This week saw the return of MBBC (Mr Brown’s Boys Club). For the remainder of this half term and up until the end of Autumn 2018, 11 boys will be split between 2 groups and will work with Mr Brown every Monday afternoon. The group will focus on improving skills that are not always necessarily

The Grow your Mindset team came to conduct a whole school assembly for all the children, teachers and parents. They brought with them a giant inflatable brain, which helped get across the message that our brains need exercising every day. As part of the input we revisited how a fixed mindset differed from a growth mindset and even went into more detail about the advantages and disadvantages

For week 2 of happiness and health (18th June) the children looked at how we can keep ourselves physically healthy. As the members of the group are avid sports fans, we decided that we would look at using sport to keep ourselves physically healthy. The group split themselves in to pairs and had to complete

For the past 3 weeks, MBBC have been working on happiness and health (Physical, Emotional and Mental Health) We have been analysing all the things that make us happy and healthy and whether the two go together. On Monday 11th June, we looked at all the different things that make us happy and why they

This week in MBBC we focused on ‘Teamwork’. The boys already knew a lot about teamwork as most of them played/play in teams. However, this was still an important topic to cover as working collaboratively in a team can sometimes be a difficult thing even as an adult. We started the session by watching a

On Thursday 10th May, the newly formed and named (by the boys themselves) Mr Brown’s Boys Club (MBBC) had their 3rd session. The focus of this week’s session was RESILIENCE. The first 45 minutes of the afternoon was spent learning all about how we can develop our own resilience. We started by looking at overcoming

On the 16th, 18th and 19th of April, the children of Springfield Community Primary School were taught the basic key skills of First Aid, such as calling for help, CPR, how to use a defibrillator and the Recovery Position. Malcolm Sweetlove from Sweetlove Training delivered the course to every pupil across school from Years 1-6.

For the second instalment of MBBC we focused on ‘Values’. The session started with a discussion about influences within our lives. We filled in an activity sheet about those influences rating the importance.  We all agreed that the biggest influences within our lives were people within our families, then teachers and friends and finally people

For the first week of Mr Brown’s Boys Club we worked on ‘Self-esteem’. We discussed what it meant, what it is and the benefits of having it, We talked about having pride in what we do and recognising the things we are good at. Having a goal to work towards can help us be proud

On Wednesday 7th March Luke Ambler attended Springfield Community Primary School to raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing. Luke Ambler is a former professional Super League and International rugby league player, playing for the likes of Halifax and Leeds Rhinos. Luke is now a public speaker, speaking in various different settings such as schools,