Category: News
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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…
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Weekly Highlights
Week two our students really got their teeth stuck into this term’s topics! Students continued building their Maths and English skills this week. Some used IXL, while others preferred other methods, but all did a fantastic job!Maria was particularly impressed by AF who completed an IXL section on writing and grammar and scored 100%! Some…
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Term Topic: Game Development
This term our students are diving head first into game development using RPG Maker. While most of our students have probably played plenty of video games, creating a video game of their own presents them with entirely new challenges. Things we often take for granted in a game suddenly become something that needs thought, care…
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Weekly Highlights
Our students have returned from their Christmas breaks with a fresh spring in their step and plenty of motivation to produce some awesome work. To start off the new year our students had a think about their goals for this term.Some of their goals include helping out more at home, being more active, building healthy…
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Have You Heard of… Mindfulness?
Odds are, you probably have! Mindfulness has become more and more popular in recent decades and has become almost a sort of buzzword. But what does it really mean? How can it be practised? And what may be benefits of it, especially for young people? “a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the…
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Thanks for a Great Year!
With the winter term coming to an end, it is time to say goodbye to 2024 at SB. It’s been an eventful year full of fun, learning, friendships, progress, new and returning staff and students, new buildings and machines, new skills and memories. Here are some new skills, challenges and topics our students conquered in…
