Hello Yellow Day: Supporting Young Minds 2024
On Thursday 10th October, we celebrated World Mental Health Day by taking part in 'Hello Yellow Day', supporting YoungMinds. YoungMinds is the UK's leading charity championing the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. Driven by their experience, YoungMinds creates change so that children and young people can cope with life's adversities, find help when needed and succeed in life.
In total, we raised £50.30!
Reception:
We learnt about mindfulness as part of Hello Yellow Day. They explored different breaths to help regulate e.g ice breath and ninja breath.
They discussed how friends can support us and how we can support our friends e.g making pasta friendship bracelets, making a card and sharing an activity with a friend can help when we are sad or feel a little bit anxious.
The class looked at emotions cards and wondered how the people were feeling and why. They used emotion fans to explain how they were feeling and began to decide how a character in a story might be feeling - moving the character up or down on the narrative map depending on how they thought they may feel.
They explored resources in The Colour Monster calming corner e.g bubble timers, books about emotions and different resources to manipulate to focus and calm with.
Children talked about how their grown ups at home and school can help them and how it is nice to ask our friends how they are feeling and if they need any help.
Pupil voice:
Ava-May: I liked the blu-tac best. I can use it when I am cross and stretched it out this big!
Marc: I like the bubble timer - it looks like volcanoes
Avisha: Maxine is my friend
KS1
We discussed the meaning of mental health and how we can boost our wellbeing. We did mindful colouring and positive affirmations listening to meditative music.
Pupil voice:
Ellie: Mental health means your mind and feelings being okay. Sometimes you're not okay and that's alright.
Mahmoud: I liked when we all put butterflies in our hair. It made me really happy. We all look really cool like the Ben Hope familes!
KS2
What we learnt on World Mental Health Day:
'There's lots of things I need to take care of for my mental health:
1. We need to calm down. If you're freaking out, don't worry and stay calm
2. If you're stressed out, chill and relax
3. If you can't concentrate, read a book, sleep, draw, paint, do some handwriting, or just and relax your mind.'
Zoe, Year 5
Today, we followed this advice and took some time for ourselves, taking part in mindful colouring and reflection time.
