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  • Boost your child’s wellbeing

    Partnership for Children have developed short ten-minute activities to help children find healthy ways to deal with their feelings. The activities cover feelings, staying connected, dealing with change, getting along, dealing with worries and relaxing. They are designed for children aged five to nine but can be adapted for younger or older children. Children’s well-being…

  • School Bulletin

    This week’s school bulletin contains a warm welcome to our new year 7 students, who will join us in September. There are also details about the Mayor of London’s ‘East Summer Summer School 2020 ‘, which will start later this month. Swanlea’s 12th Weekly Bulletin  

  • Think U Know – home activity packs

    Think U Know have created home activity packs to support parents. Each fortnight, they will release new home activity packs with simple 15 minute activities parents and carers can do with their child to support their online safety. Activity Packs>>

  • Win a Blue Peter Sports Badge (ages 6-15 years)

    Get your very own 2020 Sports Badge with Blue Peter. To enter you will need to try a new way of getting active. This could be a new exercise class at home or a new style of dance. The only rule is: You must be trying something new and it must be physically active. Once…

  • PE home learning from Youth Sport Trust

    The PE home learning resources from the Youth Sport Trust offer a range of PE activities that can be done individually, in pairs or in small groups. This includes athletics, dance, games, gymnastics, health related exercises, inclusion (boccia), locomotion, and outdoor and adventure. Activities have a focus on the development of physical proficiency, personal skills…

  • Groundwork London Urban Nature Challenge

    Groundwork.org.uk have created four FREE Key Stage 3 curriculum-linked PSHE, geography and biology lessons aimed at building pupil resilience, wellbeing and connection to nature. No teacher prep is needed and lessons can be split into daily tasks or completed in one go. There is a worksheet and video for each lesson: Urban Nature – map…

  • Plant photography tips from Kew Gardens

    Nature photography is a great way to explore the great outdoors and the following tips could apply to taking photos in a garden, on your balcony or of indoor plants. You could even photograph plants and trees that you can see from a window. Tips include: Focus on seasonal highlights – for example wildlife, colours or flowers blooming.…

  • Virtual Kew

    Kew Gardens enables you to travel to the tropics, the desert and the mountains without leaving your house, via their virtual tour and seasonal footage. You can also watch conservation in action at Wakehurst – where the Millennium Seed bank stores seeds from all over the world to safeguard wild plant diversity. Kew Gardens virtual tour>>

  • School Bulletin

    This week’s school bulletin contains details about social distancing for everyone at school, it also showcases some exemplary artwork and identifies star students, who have done exceptionally well. Swanlea’s 11th Weekly Bulletin

  • Scavenger hunt for different coloured flowers 🌺

    How many coloured flowers can you find on your next walk? Chelsea Physic Garden (founded in 1673) has challenged you to find as many different coloured flowers on your next walk. The supporting worksheet encourages you to tick off flowers as you see them and provides a guide on which colours insects and birds are attracted…