Wellbeing Wednesday

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Hello, everyone.
Welcome to Wednesday's Assembly.
You can see just under my face there.
I've written well being Wednesday.
So today's assembly is all about your well being.
We know well being is one of our school values
on. This follows on a little bit from our work
of yesterday thinking about love, but also builds on further
from our anti bullying week work, and I will explain
a little bit more about that at the end.
First of all, though, I'd like to share one of
my favorite stories.
I tell this story every year, and I have not
used it yet.
This year.
So many of you will be familiar with this story,
the huge bag of worries, and you will recognize Jenny
there with her huge bag on a LH.
These little characters here that are alehouse er worries that
she carries around with her.
Okay, The reason I want to tell you this story
is to remind you that actually, if you are worried
about something or you might be worried about friend or
a family member by telling an adult who cares about
use, it could be an adult at home or an
adult in school.
We will help you to solve those problems or those
worries. Okay, sake.
First off, we can see Jenny sat there on her
bed with her dog loft Us.
Okay, generally, Jenny is really happy.
She lives with Loft us on.
She lives with her mom and dad.
So Jenny's normally happy.
But recently she's been getting gloomier and gloomier.
It says it wasn't just one thing.
It was everything.
She was worried.
She was getting too fat.
She worried that Loftus had fleas on that.
Her best friend was going away.
She worried about getting bad marks of school, and she
thought she heard people whispering about her on the playground.
She worried about her mum and dad if they had
an argument.
And she even worried about wars on bombs, you can
see there.
And then one day she woke up to find a
huge bag of worries.
So all her different worries were there In one big
bag at the bottom of her bed, the back followed
her everywhere to school, to swimming to the toilet.
Andi even stuck by her when she was watching the
television, okay, She got all these worries inside her.
That she wasn't sharing.
So that bag of worries just didn't go away.
So she tried some things.
She tried ignoring it.
That didn't work.
She tried throwing it away.
But the worries always came back.
She tried toe lock it out.
But when she got back to her bedroom, the worries
were there, waiting for her.
It was like, Ah, horrible shadow that she couldn't get
rid off.
What could she do?
I wonder maybe your teacher will pause this recording right
now. Maybe you could come up with some suggestions Virginia's
to what she could do to help get rid of
those worries.
Okay, well, this is what Jenny did.
You could say that she asked her brother for help,
but he was always too busy with his computer game
on. All he said was I don't know what you're
talking about.
I don't have any worries.
And after that, she didn't feel like asking anybody else
because she'd only feel stupid.
Mom would probably say you've got no worries that I
can see you're a lucky girl.
You've got your health, your friends, your family.
What more do you want?
So she decided not to tell her that could be
a problem, can't it?
Sometimes I know sometimes when I'm worried about something come.
I'm worried about it sounding silly, Um, or that people
won't think it's a really worry.
So that's that's a tricky thing.
Toe overcome, isn't it?
Oh, Dad might know what to Dio, but then she
thought again, No, Dad had enough worries of his own.
She couldn't ask him.
And every day things got worse on the bag of
worries got bigger and bigger on DSS.
Stronger and stronger.
She couldn't sleep because the bag of worries kept tossing
and turning all night long beside her.
To make matters even worse, the bag dragged around her
my feet so much when she was walking to school
that she was late and then her teacher was crossed
with her.
Jenny couldn't tell her what had happened on anyway.
She knew she would say, You've got too many worries
in future.
Leave that Baggett home.
Jenny told her best friend about the bag.
She suggested that Jenny locked it up in a cupboard
and tried not to think about it.
Yeah, that's what I'll do, she said.
But look, that just didn't work.
Okay, so Jenny's tried some things, so I wonder what's
going to happen next.
Even Loftis couldn't help.
He tried his best.
He barked at the bag like mad.
But the back just stood its ground.
One morning, Jenny woke up.
She got dressed and she walked down the road.
She'd had enough.
The tears started rolling down her cheeks.
She sat on a garden wall and put her head
in her hands.
She thought she would have to live with this bag
forever. Then she heard a voice Onda, looking up.
She saw the kindly face of the old lady who
lived next door.
Goodness, said the lady, What a huge bag of worries
you have here.
Through her tears, Jenny explained how it had followed her
for weeks on.
It just kept getting bigger and bigger, and it wouldn't
go away.
Now let's open it up and see what's inside, said
the old lady Get.
But Jenny said she couldn't if she opened the bag,
the worries might jump act.
And who knew what might happen then, huh?
Nonsense, said the old lady.
There's nothing A worry hates more than being seen.
If you have any worries, however small the secret is
to let them out slowly, one by one, and show
them to someone else.
And soon they'll go away.
So slowly and carefully.
Jenny opened up the bag.
Theo, Old lady sorted the worries into groups.
Jenny was astonished to see how small they looked out
in the open on on their own.
Half the worries disappeared because lots of worries just hate
the daylight.
As for the rest, the old lady put some in
her shopping basket for her to deal with.
So she sent packing because they were worries that belonged
to other people.
You can see those were moms and dads worries, sir.
She blew a kiss to On some, she said, were
worries that everybody had even Jenny's family, her friends on
Dhe. Her teacher would have those worries, too.
And as for the back and you see, she's thrown
the bag away so you can see there with the
old ladies help.
Jenny was able to break down that huge bag of
worries on dhe sort through them on.
We all have worries.
I've already said.
We all worry about things and it stays in the
story. We all worry about things, but that the way
to deal with any worries that we have is to
talk about them because actually sharing them.
Sometimes they don't see Seimas bad, but also, people are
able to help you.
Okay, this brings me on to the last thing I
wanted to talk to you about today.
You can see there at the bottom.
It says, well being survey altogether.
So last week, in anti bullying week, we learn Maura
about bullying.
What bullying is bullying is a group behavior on.
We made our pledges, um, to be an anti bullying
schools were united against bullying.
Now we are We have joined part of program called
altogether which links directly Thio, the national anti bullying alliance
on dhe.
That was the work that we did last week for
anti bullying week this week.
Now that we've started on that, every child in the
school is going to fill in one of thes questionnaires.
Okay, Says well being questionnaire for pupils and you can
see there it stays altogether united against bullying.
Now it looks if I hold this up, it looks
like there is absolutely loads to do.
Okay, on there is, but it'll tick things So the
first one says I like going to school.
Never a little a lot.
Always, Uh, I am hit, pushed or kicked by other
pupils. Never a little.
A lot.
Always. So you've got lots of statements like that to
work through and tick Which one is honest and true
for you?
Okay. Now on the back, this the box at the
back talks about your feelings.
Okay, so it saves things like I feel lonely.
Um, I cry.
I am unhappy.
And it says never, Sometimes, always.
So what I want you to do.
These surveys are anonymous, okay?
Means you don't write your name on it.
You're going to fill them out in class on your
teacher will hand them back to me.
So I will know which class it's come from.
But I won't know which person it's come from.
What I'm going to do with these surveys, then part
of our altogether is that I've started on action plan
as to what we do to become an altogether school
to prevent bullying in out school.
Okay, on this is what we call is our baseline
assessment. So we've done this so I can see how
everybody is thinking and feeling now on.
Then we will do some work over the next few
months on.
Then you will do this survey again to see if
anything has changed.
Okay, so it's anonymous.
So no names on it on you.
Just ticket.
What is honest and true for you now.
Okay. So not thinking about what?
What has happened last academic year?
We're thinking about now since we've been back in school
since September.
Okay, right.
Okay. I'm not going to say a prayer.
The in it for the end of today's assembly.
I'd like you to have some space and time to
just close your eyes on Dhe.
Think I'd like you to think about any worries you
might have?
I'd like you to think about the people that you're
able to share those worries with.
Yeah, I'd also like you to think about people in
your life that make you happy that you can laugh
and smile with that.
Help Thio make those worries disappeared.
Okay. Thank you for listening.
Everyone. Children, I've said the teachers have until the end
of Friday to give you some time to get those
surveys done.
Okay. Thank you very much.
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