Children's Mental Health Week

In February (just before half term) we took part in Children’s Mental Health Week and we all had great fun and learnt a lot! The theme was ‘’This is my place’, all based round the feeling of belonging and how important that is to all of our wellbeing. The staff planned many engaging activities around, and to promote, this theme and to support the children in recognising the importance of feeling like we belong, for ourselves and those around us. We started the week with an assembly and a dress up day (Come as Yourself day). It was wonderful to see all the fabulous outfits the children had put together. The staff all joined in and took a common theme—everyone wore an item of pink and their sunglasses—to demonstrate our sense of belonging to Westfield and each other. It was lovely to see the children start to realise staff were dressed in similar ways! During the week the children all contributed to a collaborative piece of art by each decorating their own butterfly, this beautiful display is now up in the main school corridor and it looks fabulous!

