Castleview Primary School - School Closure Work HEALTHY FOCUS WEEK

EARLY LEVEL ACTIVITES – Nursery and Primary 1Choose your favourites from these Health & Wellbeing activities to do at home.

Families and friendships

Talk about families - Children love to hear stories about you when you were their age and growing up, and about relatives near and far.

Draw or paint family portraits, family trees or start a family/selfie gallery.

On paper plates… or on cardboard boxes.

Write and send a letter to people you miss. Writing and sending a letter together gives you the space to talk together about feelings. Or you could just draw a picture or make a card to send to the person you miss. It's a great way to help children stay in touch.

Feelings and making choices

Books for reading together - In my heart by Jo Witek. A book encouraging children to explore and reflect upon a whole range of feelings. This story is told by The Story Time Family https://youtu.be/xIfLgHBwYx4

Make a ‘Coping Chart’ Together create a list of activities, for example… Talk to someone Read a book draw/paint watch favourite movie have a snack

Dear Uncle Colin,

How are you? I hope you are OK. I am missing you. I was upset today because I wanted to visit but Mum says we can’t. I thought I’d send you a picture instead….

bake build an obstacle course do some Cosmic Yoga, for example: www.youtube.com/watch?

v=YKmRB2Z3g2s dance I Like to Move It : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLHZeKbMUo

Your child can then choose from these to help them deal with difficult feelings - sad, angry, frustrated, scared, bored…

Looking after living things

Visit a zoo online https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/

ONLINE SAFETY

Feeling safe and happy online - Talk to your child about what they are accessing online, how it makes them feel and reassure them to always speak to you or a trusted adult if they see or hear something online that upsets them.

These Online safety activities packs are for children aged 4-5 www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/early-years/

See the parents and carers help sheet here www.thinkuknow.co.uk/globalassets/thinkuknow/documents/thinkuknow/parents/pdf/thinkuknow-parents-helpsheet-primary.pdf