I have been so impressed by all the children who have entered the NJS Mental Health Week competition. Here are some of the entries – these are all great examples of how to look after your own mental health, as well as supporting the wellbeing of your friends and families! I will be drawing the winners’ names out of a hat on Monday…
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Max Y4 
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Ted Theo Y5 Y6
Here is the link to our NJS Wellbeing page on the website. As this week is Mental Health Awareness Week, why not have a look? Here you will find lots of information about what we get up to in school regarding wellbeing and mental health, as well as some useful links.
Here is a sneak peak of the prizes for the Mental Health Week competition! For a chance at winning, send Mrs Wheat an email with a message or a photo showing me what you’ve done over the last week to mark Mental Health Week. Some ideas could be going for a walk, enjoying a hobby, supporting someone who is lonely, spending quality time with a friend. Send entries to megan.wheat@taw.org.uk by Friday 13th.
Here is the summer term homework for year 5. The children brought this home in their homework books on Friday. Due to the short term, this homework is to last until the end of next half term. Please encourage children to do a little bit of work from this sheet each week, and they must try to read to an adult at home at least 3 times a week. We are encouraging children to do this and to take ownership of their homework, to support their transition to Year 6 and secondary school. Thank you for your support.
Next week is National Mental Health Awareness Week. We are celebrating this at NJS this week. Today children had a special assembly – they learnt about and discussed what mental health is, and why and how to look after their mental health.
We also discussed the theme of National Mental Health Awareness Week this year – loneliness – and how this can affect someone’s mental health and wellbeing.
We are running a competition to mark the awareness week – details here…
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Year 5 was very excited to hear about the endangered ‘loof lirpa’ bird this morning. It has recently been sighted in Britain, and the children were especially excited when they found out that it had been viewed in Newport and the council had telephoned NJS to see if we could coax it to land! Interestingly, the ‘loof lirpa’ is strongly attracted to marshmallows and can be beckoned by shouting “LOOF LIRPA” loudly, whilst standing still and offering marshmallows to the sky. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to locate this extraordinary bird, despite excellent efforts from year 5.
Newport C.E. Junior School
Avenue Road,
Newport,
Shropshire
TF10 7EA
Tel: 01952 386600
Head Teacher: Mrs Nicola Moody
School Business Manager: Lesley Green
