We are P3-P7 pupils who want to enhance the nurturing ethos within our school.
We will be meeting throughout the year to work towards our team goals.
Meeting 1 – 17th September 2025
Getting to know each other and learning to collaborate.
We introduced ourselves to everyone in our team and then we were put into groups to see who could build the tallest tower in 5 minutes using only paper and tape. To succeed we had to share our ideas, listen to each other and take turns.
The winning team!
Well done to all the groups who demonstrated excellent collaboration skills!
We then discussed what we want to do to improve our school.
Here is our Action Plan –
- To create a calm area in the playground
- To improve the calm areas in classrooms
Meeting 2 – 29th October 2025
Revisiting our action plan and learning to think creatively.
Today we worked in groups to think creatively about how we could improve the calm areas in our classrooms. Each classroom has a feelings check in board and we discussed the strategies that can be useful in helping us to regulate our emotions. We came up with the idea of ‘toolboxes’ for each classroom calm corner. We discussed the ‘tools’ that would be useful and our next step is to create toolboxes for each calm corner.
Meeting 3 – 28th January 2026
Choosing toolbox resources and learning to adapt.
For this meeting, we worked in groups to create toolboxes for each zone. We were also learning to adapt by responding confidently and constructively to new ideas, experiences and challenges. Miss Smith and Mrs Innes were very impressed by our group work skills! Everyone completed the task and worked well with their group members. Take a look at some of the ‘tools’ we think would be helpful in our toolboxes…
Meeting 4 – 18th March 2026
Creating our toolboxes and learning to be considerate of other people’s feelings.
We have now purchased the resources for our toolboxes and we worked in groups to create a toolbox for each classroom. These will be available to help everyone regulate their emotions. While working in our groups, we were learning to show kindness and respect to others.
Meeting 5 – 6th May 2026
Planning our assembly presentation and learning how to use our initiative.
Today we used our session to plan next week’s presentation at assembly where each team in the school will be sharing their goals and achievements from this year. We discussed the information we want to share during the assembly, how we will present this information and who would like to speak at the assembly. We then worked independently to create a banner with our team name which our speakers will use to introduce our group to the school.