The Huge Bag of Worries

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Experienced primary teacher, Jo Clanfield, founded Teach Outdoors to encourage and support educators and others working with children, to make the most of the natural environment by taking teaching outdoors, learning outdoors and simply having fun outdoors.

After reading this book, I realised that I could share my worries with someone, who will help me get rid of my worries. All online references have been selected on an illustrative basis for the relevant potential learning activities. If you’re feeling crafty, making a Worry Worm is a great way to help your children open up about their emotions. In Woodland Dreams, young readers say goodnight to beloved woodland animals as they prepare to sleep. A moving, powerful story that shines a light on those that feel invisible in our world - and shows us that we ALL belong - from the author of Ruby's Worry.It felt happy and I really liked the story because it was nice my favourite part of the story is probably going to have to be when the lady took out all the worries and threw them away and blew them kisses. She worries about her weight, her arguing parents, her grades at school, and the departure of her best friend. Worry follows Jenny in a big blue bag, it's around wherever she goes, even when relaxing and watching TV!

Look at some of the messages which came from children to other countries – this clip looks at the origins of the rainbows and some of the messages - https://www. I like this book because the old lady from next door helped Jenny learn how to throw her worries away. It is a perfect story for children who are feeling anxious or for when you want to discuss strategies about what to do when we have a worry, as we all do at some point. The illustrations in the book are very bright and colourful and give lots of highlights to the important points in the story. They are with her all the time - at school, at home, when she is watching TV and even in the bathroom!My favourite character is the old lady who lives next door because she has lots of good advice and she is very helpful and a good friend to Jenny. Her many books include self-help titles on subjects such as bereavement, as well as the children's spooky adventure series BURLAP HALL.

It would be a great book to use to introduce the idea of worried and anxiety to children, especially in the uncertain times we are facing at the moment. That’s why we have created the first ever whole school training, Taking the Curriculum Outdoors: A Whole School Approach. A recipe can be found here with good instructions on how to make a bubble wand - https://wredtedart. I think we can all relate to this idea but I think it is a particularly effective way of getting children to visualise and conceptualise an issue that deals with the emotional and intangible.They are there when she goes swimming, when she is watching TV, and even when she is in the lavatory. There could have been more information about some of the worries that the other characters have, it is helpful to see that for example Mum and Dad also have worries but this could have been talked about more. Arts and Culture: Taking part in arts and culture can help improve your mental health because it helps you to relax, express who you are and improve confidence and self-esteem through drama, literature, music and art. The mental heath nurse who introduced me to the book said she had used it successfully with older children. There were lots of different characters in the book who Jenny could ask for help, I like how we see lots of different people she could ask and how we realise everyone can need help sometimes.

The Huge Bag of Worries is useful to help you understand that life doesn’t always stay positive and, while it sometimes seems that the weight of your worries may grow too great to manage, you cannot ignore or attempt to hide from your problems as a way to deal with them. High on energy and imagination, this ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves--inside and out. They might want to take it home to talk about with their family, or leave it at school to talk through with a talking partner or friend.The Huge Bag of Worries written by Virginia Ironside is a brilliant book exploring emotions and wellbeing. The Government in Wales has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), stating that children and young people have rights, no matter who they are, where they live or what they believe in. com/US-en/articles/how-grow-rainbow-home/ As well as being a fun activity, this allows the children to explore the science behind different materials and how water travels through them. I would recommend this book for KS1 children as a great introduction to discussing worries and anxieties in an informal and accessible way. My favourite part of the book is when Jenny figures out how to deal with her bag of worries, the end of the story gives lot of brilliant ideas about how we can all treat our worries.