Author: Jen Köhler
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National Careers Week – but what is a career?
This week is National Careers Week! It’s a one week celebration of career guidance, thinking ahead and providing resources for young people to find a direction and develop ideas of how to achieve their career goals. “career – an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life and with opportunities for progress.” –…
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Weekly Highlights
It’s the first week back and I could tell you that our students surprised us with their motivation and hard work, but if you’ve been reading any of these highlights, that should not be a surprise at all! It’s only the first week of term and our students came in with so much motivation it…
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The Term Ahead
We hope everyone has had a restful half-term. Our students sure have returned motivated and ready to go!It’s going to be an exciting term full of new experiences and knowledge. Here are some of the things our students will be focusing on this term: DT – Planters & Bird Boxes With spring (hopefully) arriving soon…
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Weekly Highlights
It feels like the year just started but the term is actually already over! It’s been wonderful to see all our new and returning students kick off the new year with lots of energy and motivation! Even during the last week of term our students didn’t slow down. As part of their FoodWise course some…
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Children’s Mental Health Week: “- Grow Yourself”
The second part of this year’s motto encourages children and young people to improve their own mental health, take responsibility and build resilience. But what are some things that can promote our mental health?Every person is different, and something that may work for one person may not work for another at all. Trying them out…
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Children’s Mental Health Week: “Know Yourself -“
The first part of this year’s motto encourages children and young people to gain a better understanding of themselves. For hundreds of years scientists have been trying to figure out human emotion. The models and underlying mechanisms that have been proposed are as vast and complicated as our emotions themselves! Psychologist Robert Plutchik proposed 8…
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Children’s Mental Health Week: Day 1
This week is Place2Be‘s Children’s Mental Health Week! In partnership with Here4You and supported by the Walt Disney Company and the Inside Out 2 characters they are hosting 5 days of spreading awareness, building resilience and talking about children’s mental health. The wellbeing and mental health of the students here at SB, and that of…
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Term-Topic: Mosaics
Many of our students are very artistically talented, so this term we are challenging them to try out a slightly different type of art, that can take many different forms: Mosaics. “mosaic – a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of stone, tile, glass, etc.” – Oxford’s English Dictionary Historically mosaics have…
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Weekly Highlights
This week our students have continued working hard on their Maths and English skills, but there’s so much more to be learned! This week our students worked really hard to work on a variety of skills. On Wednesday we had a wonderful cooking lesson with our visitor! AW’s grandmother came to SB and showed our…
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Term Topic: Health and Wellbeing
In the depths of the dark and long winter months it is important to take good care of our mental health and wellbeing. But that can be really tricky and is definitely a skill that needs to be learnt and practised. This term’s PHSE lessons focus on health and wellbeing, strengthen our understanding of it…
