As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, the children at St Agatha’s had the opportunity to learn how playing sport and exercising can support their wellbeing. PE activities were led by Jack from Roar and were giving the thumbs up from the children.

‘It was fun. It was so fun. We went and played three games. The first one was when we were tagged. It was called Classic Tag. We also played tug of war. Each team got one point.’ Reception child 

‘I really liked the dodgeball.’ Year 3 child

‘We pulled a rope together. One team was the blue team and one team was the white team. The games were fun.’ Nursery child

‘I enjoyed the medic dodgeball.’  Year 5 child

‘The dodgeball was great fun. It was a good experience at school especially as it helped us with our mental health and to get to know other children more.’ Year 4 child

In addition to the PE activities, the children were able to help build their resilience by having a scootering or skateboarding session. Here are some statements from the children:

‘I would recommend the skateboarding as it was really fun and I learnt how to do a pancake flip.’ Year 6 child

‘It was really good fun.’ Year 3 child

‘He showed us how to ride a two-wheel scooter and a bunch of cool tricks.’ Year 1 child

‘The scooter tricks were very fun and we enjoyed going around the cones.’ Year 2 child

‘I like how we were introduced to lots of new skills but we had a choice.’ Year 5 child

‘It encouraged us to try new activities and to learn new skills. It will give us more bravery and confidence in the future and we had a lot of fun doing it.’ Year 4 child

‘The skateboarding was so fun. We learnt how to do a pancake flip. It started off hard but it started to get easier the more we practised.’ Year 6 child

Other activities included making memory boxes for the children to be able to look back at fond memories that have been created. The children also very much enjoyed playing playground games such as hopscotch and popping bubbles thanks to members of the PSA who created them with chalk especially for Wellbeing Week.

‘I liked the Walk the Plank game where we could jump off into the sea’. Year 1 child