Health and Well Being Statement
At Windy Nook Primary School, we understand the need for everyone in our school to have a healthy lifestyle. This helps pupils and staff to do their best and build on their achievements. We actively promote physical and emotional health, and aim to equip pupils with the understanding and skills they need to make informed decisions about their health, both now and in the future. By championing healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and emotional health and well-being, we are aiming to continue to raise standards and improve levels of pupil achievement.
We have posted some useful links below. These are health and well-being websites for your use and information.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life
https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/services/childrens-services/growing-healthy-gateshead/
Young Minds Tel: 0808 8025544 (9.30 – 4pm)
https://www.children-ne.org.uk/mental-health-support
Online counselling and well-being for adults Adult online counselling 12-10pm weekdays 6-10pm weekends
Emotional Health and Well-being Nurse (Lynsey Robson): spoc.hdftgateshead@nhs.et Phone Number: 03000301918
Mog snacks!
This week we have focused on the story, Mog and the V.E.T. We have been role playing being a vet, painting and drawing pictures of Mog, practicing writing Mog/ and making 'Mog snacks'. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be...
Milkshake madness!
We have been reading Oliver’s Milkshake by Vivian French. It explores where milk comes from and the health benefits of drinking milk and eating fruit. We then made some blueberry and strawberry milkshakes to taste. We created a tally chart to find out which milkshakes...
The Dragonflies are super yoga bugs!
The children had a super time in PE this week. They worked with a yoga bugs instructor. She helped us explore movement to help with our balance through the Gruffalo story. This also helped us with listening skills, following instructions and mindfulness. Article 23:...
Grass camps!
We have had great fun making camps with the freshly cut grass today. Our camp started off as a 'circle with a path' and then at snack time it became our restaurant! This afternoon, it evolved into a roundabout with three roads! Article 24: You have the right to the...
Fruit salad fun in the Dragonflies
This week we have been reading Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French. We have also read a non fiction book about healthy food. We discussed health eating and the importance of eating 5 portions of fruit and vegetables every day. We then decided that we would like to...
Welcome Back Gardening Club!
What a glorious day for the first gardening club of summer term! Everyone got stuck in removing the weeds that have grown over the Easter holidays and have started to dig out the flower beds in reception ready for a revamp!
Grow Wild!
During our sessions outside today, we completed our wild flower bed in the shape of a heart and scattered some wild seeds in it which we received from Grow Wild. We checked our saplings to make sure that they were growing well, looked for blossom on the trees and...
We’re going on an egg hunt!
This week we have been learning about the Easter Story and why we eat Easter eggs at Easter. Today, we read the story, 'We're going on an egg hunt' and just as we finished it we heard a knock on our window... which turned out to be the Easter Bunny! The Easter Bunny...
Growing Wild!
We have made the most of the beautiful weather today and enjoyed lots of time outside. We have been preparing an area of grass to plant some wild seeds. We used a rope to make a heart shape, outlined it with sand (just in case the rope moved) and then we begun our...
Wholemeal cheese scones with sun dried tomatoes and thyme
Healthy Cooking Club have made another scrumptious snack tonight! Their wholemeal cheese scones with sun dried tomatoes and thyme will be on sale tomorrow for KS2 and will be sold for the usual price of 25p. As always, first come, first served! Article 15: You have...
Working our muscles in Bluebells
This week in Bluebells we are doing a science experiment all about how string our muscles are. Today, in our PE session we started the experiment by doing two activities; a wall sit, and spring jumps. The children all timed how long they could do the wall sit for and...
Fee fi fo fum…
To continue our planting theme in nursery and to link to the story of, Jack and the Beanstalk, we plated some runner beans. Hopefully, we will eventually have our very own beanstalk and also be able to cook and eat the runner beans! Article 29: Your education should...