We’re Well Wednesdays – Eat the Rainbow A great principle to follow when we’re trying to make healthy eating a daily habit is to ‘eat the rainbow’. Eating the rainbow means eating fruits and vegetables of a range of different colours each day or even, if possible, at every meal. Fruits and vegetables
Wax Lyrical Mondays - Anne Frank The Anne Frank Trust UK are running a creative writing competition, and are challenging young people to write about the life or work of Anne Frank. If you have an idea but not sure how to get started get in contact with us before 20th June and we
Investigate Thursdays – Making Play-Doh® Did you know that Play Doh was an accidental discovery! In the 1930s a company called Krogers Grocery made a product to clean coal from wallpaper. Then, one of the workers saw some school children using it to make Christmas decorations. So, he added some colour and sold
We’re Well Wednesdays – Show yourself some love This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year's theme is kindness. https://www.youtube.com/watch… When most of us think about kindness, we think about all the ways that we can be kind to others. However, being kind to ourselves is very important too. Showing ourselves
Let’s create Tuesdays - Gardening! Try planting some seeds and see what you can grow, we’ve gone for carrots, sunflowers... Let us know in the comments below what YOU would like to try planting. ''Herbs all the way...garlic and ginger too!" "I've just put these in.."
Wax Lyrical Mondays - Green Eggs and Ham Watch how skillfully Wes Tank uses Dr Dre to rap 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwDGRUzv3SE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2TsVOtV7g_ajByh5zsJYQBmpLzPOIdcheSWibbtohUagjHCEEaFZNZcak Do you have any poems you love that would make a great rap? Let us know on our Facebook page.
It’s Show and Tell Friday! It’s Show and Tell Friday! Our #STAND4 youth group gave origami bookmarks a go during our weekly zoom catch up. They were so quick and easy to make, why not give it a go too - see our post from #LetsCreateTuesdays for instructions and send us a pic of how they turned
Investigate Thursdays - Growing spring onions Did you know that some plants and vegetables can grow from just water?! This month, our STEM Engagement Manager Kirsty trying this out with some spring onions. Kirsty said: "It was really exciting to watch the spring onion regrow on my sunny windowsill over the last month".
We’re Well Wednesday – Six Super Suggestions for Great Gut Health 1. Take your time with food – Eating slowly and chewing food properly gives our digestive system time to really get into gear and also allows our body to get the maximum goodness from what we eat. 2. Grow your (gut) community
Investigate Thursdays – Dinosaur footprints This is one of Kirsty’s (Our STEM Engagement Manager’s) favourite science videos: https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/science-physics-ks2-ks3-how…/zbm4d6f It’s all about how dinosaur footprints have been kept in rock as fossils for us to investigate today. The video is part of Operation Awesome, a great video series on the BBC website. https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/c…/ks2-ks3-operation-awesome/z6mrt39
