Our Prep Wellbeing Week

  

Following a successful Wellbeing Week, Luca (Year 5) and Chijioke (Year 6) reflected back on the impact of wellbeing week in the Prep School.

 

Wellbeing week was fantastic again this year and I loved every part of it. It kicked off with 5EF telling us all about wellbeing in their class assembly on Monday and along with the wellbeing sessions each morning, Rev Brandon’s assembly on Friday and, the highlight, Wednesday’s wellbeing day, I learnt so much. For me, I better understood the importance of looking after our mind, body and soul. This means being inclusive so that everyone feels welcome and valued in our community. We must keep our body healthy with nutritious food, exercise and keeping our minds active. I now know the value of relaxing by enjoying our pets, music and sport and how important this is in having balance in our lives.

 

On Wellbeing Wednesday, I couldn’t wait for the exciting activities it held in store for the boys in the Prep School. For Patricks, we started off with a calming, soothing yoga session taken by Mr Lipscomb and Mrs Pullen. We focused on our core muscles and the yoga awakened muscular tissues which I had never used before. Next, we could relax our abdominals and traced Olympic events onto multicoloured rings which would soon make a collage to be hung around the school.

 

Afterwards we took to the mud, worms and insects in planting bulbs next to the North Drive Car Park. Toiling with the ground, we unearthed many worms and managed to plant five bulbs without irritating them. We soon jumped into fun games and activities taken by Mr Emery and were exhausted with games such as Evolution, Mr Emery’s favourite, and Space Invasion.

 

During lunch, we took part in the Prep Dash which was two laps around the school. Usually, I am averse to cross-country running but this time, it made me feel better afterwards and proud that I completed it alongside my friends. After lunch, we were all anticipating the best as we were having an assembly taken by football freestyler star Jamie Knight – one of the top ten in the world. He started off by displaying his skills and the n called some of us up to try and do some of his tricks.

 

Following that, Patricks indulged in a silent disco for an hour and time flew away like an eagle. Subsequently, we had our own session with Jamie Knight and tried some of the tricks for ourselves. Lastly, we ended with a relaxing piece of colouring with Mr Thomas which I probably enjoyed the most as I sat with my friends and we were allowed to chat freely. I loved Wellbeing Day and it taught me so much, not only about having fun with my friends but, most importantly, about looking after myself now and in the future.