This week the children have been focusing on understanding what bullying is and how to reach out to people who can help. We kicked off our week with Odd Socks Day. Everyone showed off their individuality by wearing odd socks. Throughout the week our continuous provision was all based on Anti-Bullying Week. We had lots of different activities including creating our own drawings of odd socks, making friendship bracelets, the roleplay house to build our good communication with our friends and group games to encourage turn taking and winning and losing with kindness.
During our Language for Thinking sessions, we learned about what a bully is and who we can speak to if we are being bullied. Also, we did a circle time where we gave each other compliments, discussing and re-enacting different scenarios.
It was also important for the children to understand that bullying can occur online too, so we watched a video from the National Online Safety website about who to talk to if we are being bullied online or something we don’t like or understand is happening online.
For Muddy Monday the children were given a variety of maths challenges such as creating shapes and collecting a given number of objects from the forest school area.