Well-Being
Hello and welcome to the Alma Park Well-Being page.
Alma Park staff are working together to share fun learning resources and activities to help promote our Alma Park families mental health and well-being during schools closure. This part of the website will be updated every Monday with new ideas, activities, support and guidance to help promote postive well-being for you and your family.
Take some time throughout your day to try one of our well-being activities.
Social Story - School will be different
Mental Health Awareness week 18th-24th May 2020
Mental Health Awareness Week - Kindness Matters
Books about understanding our emotions
Mental Health Resources and Information
Have a look at the children’s home-school work & videos
- Ramadan recipe prepared by Simrah & her elder sister.
- Stay Safe Animation by Clara
- Comic - Making Emma by Violet
- Making wet cyanotypes or ‘sun prints’ by Violet
- The Dragon Helper by Lilja
- J & A lockdown Science experiment - Diffusion
- J & A lockdown Science experiment - Volcano ink
- J & A lockdown Science experiment - Layers
- J & A lockdown Science experiment - Flower ink
Mr OK Potato by Miss Young
- #1 Mr OK Potato - takes a daily walk
- #2 Mr OK Potato - Let's wash our hands
- #3 Mr Ok Potato - social distancing
- #4 Mr Ok Potato – Clapping for the NHS
- #5 Mr OK Potato - Emotions
Story time with Mr B - a new story every week
Mr Bullivant will be reading and uploading stories. Click the link below to have a listen.
Activities
- Activities and online resources to try at home – you will find some ideas and website links with some fantastic resources to do at home - updated every Monday.
- Ramadan activities
- 30 day Lego Challenge
- 100 Things to do at Home
- Spring activities
- Nick Hamliton colouring sheets - One of our Year 2 parents have created some amazing colouring sheets for the children at Alma Park to have a go at.
- Healthy Schools have also created some useful resources: a parent survival toolkit, wellbeing challenges for primary and secondary aged children.
- Manchester City in the community - play and learn at home
- Manchester City Fitness Challenges
- Alma Park Lunchtime Coaches Football Skills
- Dance activities for all year groups
- Free meditation downloads for children
- Dyson at home science challenges and experiments
- The Department for Education have put together a list of online resources for home education.
- Deaf awareness week resources.
- Healthy body = Healthy mind
Support links for parents
- Guidance of how to support your child’s play and some practical ideas for how to help children keep in touch with friends from Catalyst Psychology.
- Mental well-being help and support links
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Children’s and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) have put a collection of downloadable self-help guides together.
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Ms McGurrin has put together resources to support well-being and access to learning for children with Autism in EYFS.
Online Reading
- Explaining coronavirus to children, illustrated by Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler.
- Story - Safe in my nest
- Story - Lucy's in lockdown
- Everybody worries
- CBeebies – Get Well Soon – Coronavirus
- CBC Kids News - Can I go outside?
- Don't Worry Little Bear
- The Mighty Creatures Lost Their Crown
- Understanding Coronavirus
App of the week
This week’s app of the week is Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame.
The free app helps teach skills such as problem solving, self control, planning and task persistence.
The app is suitable for all ages.
Free to download from:
Well-being brainbuilder
Miss Cannon and Mr Mason will be sending out a well-being brainbuilder every 2 weeks.
This fortnight’s brainbuilder task is all around Ramadan. Ramadan started for a lot of our families last week and therefore we would like to know how your Ramadan journey is going so far. There are a range of resources on our well-being page and google drive. Here are a few ideas that you and your children might want to share with our school community:
- Preparations for Ramadan
- Cooking recipes
- Write messages or take photographs and we can upload to webpage to share with families
- Eid cards
- Arts and crafts being done at home.
Please click here for more details.
Don't forget to send us your photographs.
You will receive the well-being brainbuilder parentmail on Monday - 04.05.20.
Home-school photographs
Please scroll towards the bottom of the page to see some of the wonderful work the children have been doing at home.
We love seeing your work and the things you are doing at home, please send us your pictures.
Contact details
Please feel free to share any ideas, resources, suggestions and home-schooling ideas with us.
If you would like to have your photo displayed on the webpage then please send it to wellbeing@almapark.manchester.sch.uk
