Monday 14th May - Friday 18th May

The Reception Hub and Hub 1 will begin with an activity designed for the children to understand that they are not alone if they're experiencing bullying.  The children will draw around their hand on paper and then cut it out.  We will then talk to the children about who they can talk to if they need help.  We will discuss what kind of people these might be and the important qualities they would have, e.g. trustworthy, honest, someone who will listen etc.  The children will then write  a name of someone they can turn to for help on each of the paper fingers.  We will be doing this activity as a guided writing lesson.

During Read and Feed time each day, we will be reading stories that relate to bullying.  We will be using these as discussion starters to get the children thinking about what bullying is and what to do if they see bullying.

On the Action Stations, we will have a station where the children can colour in their own pink shirt.  First they will draw on the t-shirt a picture of how they can help a friend if they are being bullied.  This will link in to the Bucket Filling concept that we introduced in Term 1.

On Friday it is Pink Shirt Day!  By wearing something pink, the staff and the children are promoting that they will stand up and speak out against bullying.

For Friday Whānau Hui, we will be sharing our writing from the week, especially the hands that have a person we can trust on each finger.

For Circle Time, we will be encouraging the children to actively consider what they can do to help prevent bullying in their school environment by creating a web of compliments.  This is where we have a ball of string and as we give a classmate a compliment we throw the ball to them, they then wrap the wool around their finger once and throw it to another classmate while giving them a compliment.  You keep going until all the children in the class are tangled in the web.

If you have any questions about any of the activities that we are doing this week, please feel free to talk to your child's whānau teacher.