Scoil Naomh Seosamh

What is the Amber Flag?

In order to promote positive mental health and wellbeing in Scoil Naomh Seosamh, we are taking part in the Amber Flag Initiative.  Successful completion of the Amber Flag initiative involves the whole school community coming together in order to create a safe, positive and healthy attitude towards our general, physical and mental health wellbeing.

We will document all of our hard work on this page, where you will see all of the wonderful work that is being completed in our school.

The Amber Flag is an initiative run by Pieta House which recognises the individual efforts of primary schools and other organisations that support mental wellbeing.

Our aims and objectives are:

• To create Amber Flag notice boards in the school, promoting positive mental health strategies.

• To hold a fundraising event for Pieta House and a Wellbeing Week to promote positive mental health in our school

• To hold a Design a Poster’ competition within the school to raise awareness of positive mental health strategies.

Our Amber Flag Committee

• Laoise and James – Junior Infants and Sixth class

• Fiona and Sam – Senior Infants and Fifth class

• Katie and Chulainn – First class and Fourth class

• Ines and Liam – Second class and Third class.

Compliment Monday

We made a special effort to pass a compliment to someone on Monday.  Here are some examples of nice compliments.

World Kindness Day

We celebrated World Kindness Day on Monday.  Every class had a rainbow and could pick one ticket.  We all did one kind deed on the day.

               

           

During February all classes participated in ‘Jog 28 Miles for Pieta House’. Children are enjoying their active break. On Tuesday 28th of February we will take to the roads and walk the last mile together as a school. Every child, if they wish, can donate money towards Pieta House. We will dress up in yellow to represent one of the colours of Pieta House. We are looking forward to the big walk.

   

Last week was Wellbeing Week.  Wellbeing is about looking after our physical health and our mental health.  We had a different activity every day to focus on health and wellbeing.

On Monday we did mindfulness. Being mindful means having your mind on what you are doing. It’s the opposite of rushing or doing too many things at once. 

3rd to 6th class had a workshop with Fiona Forman.  The workshop was about being resilient. Fiona gave us a lot of strategies to help with being resilient. 

On Monday night, Fiona was in Laragh to give a presentation to parents entitled “Raising Resilient Children”

                  

                 

       

On Tuesday we completed the last day of Jog 28 miles for Pieta House. This was our fundraising activity for Pieta House.  We dressed in yellow and wore our Hi-Vis vests and went on our walk to Gurteen Cross.  It was a bright sunny day.  We enjoyed the fresh air and break from the classroom.  The Student Council counted the money and we raised €540.

                    

                     

                      

          

                        

                        

             

                         

                     

Wednesday was gratitude day.  We focused on being grateful and thankful for the small and big things we have. Every child got a gratitude jar to write the things they are grateful for.  These will be displayed on the windows for everyone to read. 

            

                    

                   

                     

                    

                  

                

                      

                      

                   

                      

                      

                       

Thursday was World Book Day.  Everyone bought their favourite book to school.  We had reading time and spoke about our book to the class. We had our annual book day quiz.  We had mixed teams with a child from every class on a team. It was great fun.

                   

                   

         

               

             

           

         

         

          

        

Friday was the last day of wellbeing week.  We saved the best for last.  Danny Zumba came to the school to do Zumba with everybody.  Zumba Kids is a class that combines dance and aerobics. It was great fun.

         

              

                     

                     

                 

              

On Friday we will also had Feel Good Friday. We reflected on our week and thought of one goal we would like to achieve next week.

            

For homework last week we had a wellbeing sheet.  We completed 2 activities every day from the sheet.

     

Wellbeing week was very successful and a positive experience for our school community.