PSHE

This week, the children have been introduced to their new house teams (Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire and Diamond) and to their new areas of responsibility within the school. Within class, we have embraced this focus of responsibility and have worked on ways that we can be more responsible and independent as we go into our second half of Year One.

In PSHE, we thought about problems that we come across during our school day and came up with ways that we could be responsible and solve them ourselves. We looked at the traffic light 'problem solving' strategy and talked about the difference that a few seconds of thinking time could make. 

We made 'freeze frames' of the problem and of after the problem and thought carefully about what our goals were. For example, we acted out the problem of your friend taking your pencil. We thought about what our true 'goal' was. Was it just to get our pencil back or to do this whilst staying friends with that person? We took a few extra seconds of thinking time to decide on different ways we could solve the problem without snatching it back.

The children made lots of great suggestions!

• We could ask for it back. 
• We could wait until they finish and then explain why we were sad.
• We could offer to share and take turns.
• We could ask the teacher to help us.
• We could go and find another pencil and offer it to our friend. 

We put our problem solving to the test today. At show and tell time, the children were put into 2 groups and told that it was up to them to be responsible and decide how to fairly lead the session themselves. I was so impressed to see that the children decided who would start in each group without any arguments and decided that they needed to sit in a circle so that everyone could see. They listened to each other beautifully and took turns. 

You were all responsible just like Kanga! Well done. Have a wonderful weekend!