Year 1- Computing
In computing this afternoon year 1 have been having a go to make their own 2D animations using whiteboards and the app stop motion capture.
Wellbeing Workshops for Parents
What is Flourishing Minds? Flourishing Minds is a community based, tiered service that empowers people to learn self-care and coping skills to enable them to better self-manage their mental and emotional health, alongside other health conditions. Lancashire Mind are working in partnership with Age UK, One Voice and The Wellbeing Service to provide a variety of activities and support to Blackburn with Darwen residents. All activities are designed to enable people to better understand their mental health and wellbeing and learn how to look after it. The overall aim of the service is to improve mental wellbeing across the population of Blackburn with Darwen. The Flourishing Minds project will identify and focus on the strengths and skills that exist in local neighbourhoods and use these resources to support lasting change. This approach will enable local people to discover and share their talents and resources to make long-term improvements to their community and their wellbeing. Who can access Flourishing Minds? Flourishing Minds is funded by Blackburn with Darwen council Public Health. You can access Flourishing Minds if: You are 18 or older You live in Blackburn or Darwen You are registered with a GP in Blackburn or Darwen You are struggling to maintain positive wellbeing What support is available? Lancashire Mind and our project partners offer a range of different types of support. This includes support groups, wellbeing coaching, social activities, wellbeing checks and signposting. As part of the Flourishing Minds project we have two free community workshops available. Our community based workshops are run as 1-hour sessions either on Zoom or at local community venues. The workshops will deliver an introduction to the five ways to wellbeing and how to better self-manage stress. The workshops are interactive, informative and relaxed with the opportunity to ask questions and meet other people in the local community. To find out more about the support our partners offer, get in touch or visit their websites using the links below. https://www.lancashiremind.org.uk/pages/205-flourishing-minds https://refreshbwd.com/
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Parent/Carer Support Group from the Mental Health Support Team
Here are the details for the next parent support group from the Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
Mental Health Support Team January Newsletter
Please find attached the latest newsletter from the mental health support team, who we work closely with in school. This month there are some great tips and signposts for ways that parents can support their own mental health and wellbeing, as well as their children's mental health and wellbeing. For all of the newsletters from the Mental Health Team, please click here https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/parents/newsletters
Wellbeing Warriors - Idling Campaign
Our Well-being Warriors have been out and about today with their campaign posters about the prevention of Idling. See if you can spot them around our school area and encourage everyone to turn their engines off whilst waiting for their children or doing drop offs.
Mental Health Support Team December Newsletter
Good morning parents and carers, please find attached the latest newsletter from the mental health support team (MHST). Christmas can be a time of celebration but it can also come with added pressure and expectations. Finding a balance over the festive period can be tricky. The 5 Ways to Wellbeing is an evidence based approach to help us find a balance to support positive mental health. MHST have put together some ideas of things you could try with your family to support wellbeing over the festive period. There is a brilliant wellbeing advent calendar here too from Young Minds. https://www.youngminds.org.uk/media/rnyfoubg/primary-wellbeing-advent-calendar-2022.pdf The next PARENT SUPPORT GROUP is on BUILDING CONFIDENCE. Wednesday 25th January 2023 @ 6-7 Please email [email protected] for a link to the meeting. On our website you will find information about local community groups: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/parents/community-groups and information about supporting children's mental health: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/key-information/safeguarding
Wellbeing Warriors New Campaign
Our Wellbeing Warriors have been extremely busy creating new posters to highlight ‘Idling’ around our school and the dangers of it. Idling is the term used for when a car is stationary but the engine is still running. This creates harmful toxic emissions that can make us really poorly. The Wellbeing Warriors want to spread this message, especially to our parents and carers so we will be out with our posters over the next week to promote our new campaign and record any idling that we see, especially directly outside our school boundary.
Year 6 Computing
Year 6 spent their lesson evaluating their remixes by listening to each other’s work and providing feedback.
Year 6 Music
Fantastic singing from year 6 during their junior jam session.
Year 6 computing
Year 6 have been learning about the second form of remixing by doing genre changing. They have been remixing a vocal stem and changing the genre.
Year 6 Junior Jam
Beatboxing with Junior Jam!
Refugee Week- Healing- Year 5
Year 5 took a short walk in the local area and reflected on the journeys refugee make, in celebration of Refugee Week and the Great Get Together. They also watched a short animated film about Hamid's journey from Eritrea in Africa. We then had a discussion about looking after refugees and how to make them feel welcome in our country.