This week the children in school and at home have been talking about 'Children's Mental Health Week.' 

This year's theme is 'Express Yourself' and is focused on getting children and adults to find creative ways to share their thoughts, feelings and emotions through activities like music, art, dance or photography.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Patron of charity Place2Be, got this week's campaign up and running with a message of support encouraging all of us to share and discuss how we feel, especially during this difficult time.

You can watch her message on BBC Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/55890449

 

Look at your child's class website page to discover more about what your child's class have been doing this week to 'Express Themselves'. Here is a little taster of activities from across the school.

As part of our Rights Respecting School work today we helped show that we care about children across the world who do not have access to the same rights as we do at Northern. We all wore our Christmas Jumpers to school and made a donation to Save the Children. Who knew there were so many Christmas jumpers out there! Everyone looked amazing - even our Reception and Year 1 children who joined in when they were back in school.

Our Northern community is an overwhelmingly caring place to be and today just proved that. Today the whole school community came together to raise money to support one of our families. Not only did lots of activities take place in school to raise money but children also took it upon themselves to raise money at home too. In total we managed to raise over £2 000. I am lost for words - sensational!

A scrumptious Christmas dinner was enjoyed by children and staff today thanks to our amazing catering team Debbie, Julie and Michelle. Thank you ladies.

Today Father Christmas visited Northern and delivered a special present for every child to outside of their classroom door. It is definitely beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

How fantastic is our Northern PTA! To ensure the children were all able to enjoy our annual Christmas pantomime fun the PTA ordered a digital version of a pantomime for the children to watch in their bubbles. The PTA even provided popcorn for the children to munch on as they watch the pantomime just as if they were at the theatre.

What amazing fun was enjoyed by all.

 

Thank you so much to our fantastic PTA.