Last Thursday at the start of the session the children were shown ‘The Jigsaw Charter’ to help reinforce how they work together as a team.

Everyone including the adults, then participated in the ‘Calm Me’ exercise. It was explained to the children that this was to help get their minds ready to learn. We discussed how staying calm and focusing our minds would help us to visualise and create pictures in our minds.

The ‘Open my mind’ activity involved role cards. Children were put into pairs and were given one role card and one blank description card. They then had to list the three most important jobs that the person on the card does in the school community and how they help them to learn.

Then without showing anybody the role card, pairs took turns to read out the job description card so the other children could try and guess who was on the role card.