On Tuesday 14th November, we started our Anti-Bullying week and Empathy Action Week with a bang! Local author Shabana Hussain was invited in to read the stories that she has written and to discuss why she became an author, what made her write about bullying and feelings and to talk about the importance of empathy […]
This year we wanted our children to try a new sport- Fly Fishing. Studies have shown that this sport has many benefits. The focused attention and rapid reaction time involved in fly fishing not only strengthens the mind but enables those taking part to experience lower levels of cortisol, anxiety and stress. On Tuesday 4th
Here at Springfield CPS, we took part in this years Beat the Street organised by Alexis Turner at Burnley Leisure (BLC). We started with our assembly and talking about the importance of walking and other ways of being active within our local community (cycling, running etc.) as a school we spoke about the beat boxes
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On Thursday 20th April, it was Springfield’s first Mental Health Awareness Day. All classes accessed a number of different activities all based around mental health and well-being. We teamed up with Robert at Healthy Heads Education and The Yogi Group. The sessions included: An outdoor session all about resilience with Robert A classroom-based all based
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We were lucky enough to be invited to complete a Mental Health First Aid Training Day on Tuesday 27th September 2022 . We decided to take two children- Bitsy and Joshua- who were chosen due to their qualities within school. The two children along with Mr Coates visited Whitefield Infant School in Nelson, where we were
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This week (29.01.20) we looked at what it means to be respectful. Staying on the theme of attributes, we considered the characteristics and qualities that would be evident in a person that demonstrates ‘respect’. We individually created a mind map and then selected some of our ideas to create a group mind map of our
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On a weekly basis Mr Coates leads and delivers a Health and Emotional Wellbeing programme with a group of boys from Year 5. For the first week (22.01.20) the aims and outcomes for the club were discussed. Following on from this we had a discussion about how we all have attributes that we like and
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We are delighted to announce that we received the Wellbeing Award for Schools- July 2019. The report identified how we ensure that mental health and wellbeing sit at the heart of school life. Here is what the report stated: Strengths identified during verification: Leadership is a key factor in understanding the success of the school
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Three children from Year 5 attended a Youth Mental Health Champion Seminar on Wednesday 27th November at Prairie Sports Village. The children were selected after delivering a short presentation about what they thought Mental Health meant and why they would make a worthy Mental Health Champion. Year 5 delivered some very interesting speeches. In the end
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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On the 10th April, Healthy Mind UK visited Springfield Primary School as the first part of a three day project that will be conducted over the coming months. The first part of the programme was called ‘Brain child’, this workshop was delivered to all the children across school, over the course of the day. During the
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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,
