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.
Children’s Art Week
In 2020, Children’s Art Week will take place across three weeks in June and July. Each week will focus on a special theme.
Week 1 (29:06.20) theme is The Natural World please find some ideas below:
- Art Council
- Parenta
- Manchester Art Gallery
- International museum of children’s art
- Nature art ideas
- Nature art activities
- Arts and craft ideas
Week 2 (06.07.20) theme is Connecting across generations please find some ideas below:
Week 3 (from 13.07.20): Literacy and creative writing:
Please look at the event organiser’s webpage for more ideas Engage.org
Children’s home-school work & videos
- Minecraft presentation
- Hannah's - Climate Change
- The Mackay Family Podcast – Lockdown – Lowdown
- Cleo's World Enviroment Day Video
- Bake and Ache - Cake Sale
- 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
- #6 Mr Ok Potato - Help Stop the Spread!
- #7 Mr Ok Potato - Face coverings
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.
- 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
- Dyson at home science challenges and experiments
- The Department for Education have put together a list of online resources for home education.
- Healthy body = Healthy mind
- 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.
- Well-Being & Mindfulness resources
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Summer Activities:
App of the week
This week’s app of the week is Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness.
Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness helps parents settle children into a peaceful, restful sleep.
The app is suitable for ages 4 and over.
Free to download from:
Well-Being Brainbuilder
This fortnight’s brainbuilder is all around Mindfulness, we would like you to share with us the different things you’ve been doing to help you keep calm, collected and positive during this difficult time.
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:
· Yoga
· Meditation
· Exercise/ Sports
· Dance
· Arts and Crafts at home – colouring or experimenting with playdough etc.
Click here for more information
Well-Being & Mindfulness resources
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 to support children
School Reopening (for some year groups) June 2020 - Social Story
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
