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To help with your child's move to secondary school, please find below various links to videos, activities and information that can help support both parents and children.
Playing a game or doing a puzzle can help us when we feel overburdened by what's going on around us.
Here's a link to a website with a few games that might help take your minds of things for a little bit.
Here is a collection of resources for families and children.
There are links to websites, activities and contact numbers for helplines.
A lot of us might be struggling during this lockdown, but it's important to know that we are not alone, there is always help out there.
Here is a link to the Kent Resilience Hub.
These short videos are a must watch for any parent in Kent to learn about how to support their child to be resilient and how to be a resilient parent themselves.
Origami can help relax us, feel better, improve various hand eye skills and improve our concentration.
I have provided a link to a video I use in helping me make an origami frog. It even can jump when completed.
Find a random piece of paper, it just needs to be square shaped.
Follow the steps in the video, pause it when you need to and take your time.
Good luck!
Here is a link to different games and activities you can do in the snow.
Some of these you might not have heard of, such as snow bowling or snow painting!
What is your favourite song? There might be some music that you haven’t listened to in a long time.
Find a moment today to listen to some of your favourite songs.
You may want to do some colouring in or drawing while listening.
The songs might make you want to get up and dance.
Colour Breathing
The first thing you need to do is choose a negative colour, a colour you might associate with worry or fear.
Next choose a positive colour, this might represent feeling relaxed and calm.
Make sure you are nice and comfortable. You can close your eyes if you like.
Now imagine your body is filled with the negative colour.
Remembering the deep belly breathing in previous exercises. Take a deep breath in all the way down to your stomach, imagining you are breathing in the positive colour.
When you breathe out, some of the negative colour, your worry, is leaving your body.
Every time you breathe in, you are breathing in the calm positive colour.
Slowly your body is being filled up with the calming colour and the negative worry colour is leaving your body, more and more.
Below is a link for a video to help guide you through this exercise.
Comic Book Worries
Think about something that might be worrying you at the moment.
Now, make a comic strip in which you overcome those worries.
How did you do it?
My Goal
Is there something you’ve always wanted to learn?
Is there something you would like to get better at?
This activity helps us think of the steps we need to take in order to achieve a goal.
Draw a big ladder.
At the top of the ladder is where you are going to write/draw your goal.
Then in each space leading up to your goal, think of the steps you need to take in order to achieve it. These steps should be written/drawn in the spaces.
Close to My Heart
This activity helps us think about the people, places and things that are close to our hearts.
Draw a big picture of a heart. Then divide the heart into different sections, like the one in the example.
In the different sections, draw or write all the people, places or things that are close to your heart.
Thinking about Worries
This activity is about writing or drawing your worries. This is something you can use throughout the day to record the progress of your worries. At the end of the day you are able to look back and see what you thought was going to happen compared to what actually happened.
Sometimes our worries can feel too big and we feel out of control. This activity helps us look at some of our worries and maybe notice that sometimes our worries are just thoughts, they don't actually happen.
The first cloud is for your worry.
I'm worried I won't be able to do the Maths task today.
The second cloud is what you think might happen.
I will get all the answers wrong and the teacher will be cross with me.
The third cloud is for what actually happened.
I tried my best. I didn't get everything right but my teacher was proud of me.
Sword and Shield activity
This activity reminds us what can help when we feel under attack by our worries and fears.
The first part of the activity is to draw a sword. Now, make sure the sword is big because you are going to be writing and drawing inside of it.
Inside the sword you should write or draw your worries.
Now it's time for the shield. Again, draw a nice, big shield. Inside of this shield you should write or draw things that help you when you feel worried. They might be people you can talk to, activities that help you feel calm or positive affirmations about yourself.
This exercise helps us see the things in life that make us feel worried or anxious, and how we can 'defend' ourselves from letting these feelings take control.
The Jar Activity
For this activity you can either draw a jar on a piece of paper, or find an empty one in your home to use.
What you have to do is fill the jar up with either words or drawings of things that make you laugh. You might not be able to fill it all in one go, but each day you might think of something else that makes you laugh and add it to the jar.
Over time you will have a jar full of laughter. So if you are feeling sad, you can look in your jar and find something that will make you laugh.
