Dzień: 2022-06-09

After-school activities

It took us two months to prepare presenting the effects of all these extra, time-consuming and heavy work activities in the limelight. In order to:

  • introduce some relaxing after school activities,
  • provide the students with the chance to extend their learning beyond the formal curriculum
  • expose children to new experiences, ideas, and perspectives beyond their everyday school lives
  • provide them with the chance to manage stress related to performing in public
  • enable students working in a team,
  • give the students an opportunity to socialize, develop new skills, such as acting, performing, creating, designing and sewing
  • promote our school and the project

we scheduled extra drama and sewing classes. Not only did the students attend them, but also the teachers. Finally all the guests invited to the school festival could see the final product, which was the play written and performed by the school community.

That’s me!

A sense of individuality and a sense of self-esteem are both the most determining factors in how children feel, think, behave, and motivate themselves in the world. If children believe in themselves and they are able to recognize their skills they can take positive actions on their own behalf and approach life obstacles as challenges to accept and cope with. To learn how to manage these skills, during English classes and form periods 4th Grade children, using visual materials talked about their skills and competences. After that they prepared a survey about abilities and carried it out asking other pupils what they can do. They calculated the results and presented them on graphs. Afterwards they depicted the features characteristic for them.

The objectives of the activities:

  • being able to name sport activities and hobbies
  • working in a team, sharing duties
  • improving their math skills
  • taking the time for personal reflection
  • perceiving oneself as an individual being
  • boosting a sense of children’s self-esteem
  • giving them an opportunity for learning in a different way
  • encouraging them to speak about their abilities and competences

Emotion Awareness Day

Emotion Awareness Day served us as a good opportunity to discuss the feelings we all go through. The youngest children named the basic emotions, they decided which of them are positive and which are the negative ones, they tried to establish what makes us recognize other people’s feelings. During watching cartoons we named emotions, predicted them and finally they tried to present some basic feelings drawing human faces. Older students took part in similar activities. They studied photos of some situations and named the emotions of people involved, while learning new vocabulary they also tried to describe possible situations which may cause these feelings. They also tried to establish and then rate conditions which usually cause anger. A privacy breach definitely got to the top.

The objectives of the activities:

  • ability to name emotions
  • understanding that emotions are usually short-term
  • recognizing one’s own way of coping with anger
  • ability to define the common causes of emotions
  • ability to recognize other people’s feelings in their body language, face expressions, tone
  • realizing one’s needs for safety, closeness and acceptance 
  • understanding that in most cases we can manage our aroused emotions are calmed and they can be proceed in a developmental process.

What makes you relaxed?

School, school, after-SCHOOL activities, before SCHOOL activities. A vicious circle of school-related terms. What makes you feel relaxed? What can let you forget about the troubles, expectations, duties and obligations? Everyone has got their own ways to cope with daily problems. Children started from brain-storming for all the ideas of passing free time. They began from the conventional ones, but afterwards more specific pastimes appeared on the common mind map. After the discussion and learning some new vocabulary they made their own mind maps on posters in groups and afterwards, using https://wordart.com the children made their own, individual lists of things which make them not feeling worried and then created the word clouds in pictures symbolizing leisure for them.

The objectives of the activity:

  • introducing new vocabulary, related to pastimes and interests
  • recognizing the difference between obligations and leisure time
  • realizing when you have too much stress and you need to relax
  • finding common activities which make you and your friends relaxed
  • recognizing one’s own needs and one’s own individuality