This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme for this year is anxiety.
Hazel class have been exploring what anxiety is and how it might feel, using real life experiences to guide our discussions.
We then took put in scenarios thinking about what is causing anxiety and what we could do to help.
Next, we discussed strategies about how we can tackle anxiety when it happens and how we can do that in school.
Finally we did an anxiety visualisation exercise, where the children imagined themselves on a beach to help create a relaxed and stress free environment, it worked so well we almost fell asleep!
I’m very proud of how well the children listened and took part in the activities and hopefully they have learnt some very important life skills along the way.