This week Year 6 will be  discussing how to be an upstander and to use their voices to challenge stereotypes.
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This week in One life we will be learning about what a stereotype is, how stereotypes can be unfair, negative, destructive or lead to bullying and how to challenge a stereotype. Age and gender protected characteristics. ➢ YR, Y1 Race ➢ Y2 disability ➢ Y3 acceptance ➢ Y4 we are all perfectly designed ➢ Y5 – we all have a voice ➢ Y6 being an upstander

​In Team EO and CW one life lessons  children learnt that compassion means ‘suffering together’, They listened to the kindness song and they listened to the story ‘Kindness Grows’. We know that we need to build compassion for others starting with kindness.

 This half term our one life focus has been Compassion. Compassion for ourselves, compassion for others and compassion for the world. This is one of the  lovely stories we have shared in assembly as we develop our understanding of Compassion.
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Team CW have loved listening to this story about facing tough challenges and having goals. It was a funny book with a serious message about having high aspirations and that goals can never be achieved without hard work.

​This week we have continued with our usual One Life sessions, centered around this half term's theme of bouncing back. In our lesson this week, we explored how to bounce back in friendships and why the words we say matter as they can often leave a bad taste in our mouth if they are not words of kindness. 
We have also been lucky enough this week to have Compass Be deliver a workshop on emotions. The class learned about what emotions and common daily emotions are through an activity called How would Sam feel? The class explored how Sam might feel and respond in different situations and how he could ask for help and support. The workshop also included a task where the children explored ideas of when and why they might feel different emotions. It was a fantastic session that the children took a lot from. Well done Team CB!

This week Team JF have been incredibly lucky to have some visitors in our classroom. The lovely ladies were from COMPASS BE and spoke to them all about 'me and my emotions'. The children thoroughly enjoyed the session and had the time to play a 'would you rather' quiz, move around the room to answer a range of scenarios and think about a time when they have felt strong emotions.  

This half term our school One life learning is about Bouncing Back!
Life is amazing, but also challenging. Know that mistakes are normal and no-one is perfect. We must let things go if we want to bounce back in our one life. We must practise forgiveness for ourselves and others if we want to live a fulfilled life. We can always bounce back even when we experience intense emotions. That it is common to experience mental health problems and early support can help to resolve problems.