Today we talked about worries as part of our well-being week activity. We spent time discussing the difference between a worry and a problem. We talked about how a problem is a one off thing that happens but although it might upset us we can sort it out, often with a teacher if we are at school, fairly quickly. For example, someone knocks us over, they say sorry and it is finished. We then discussed how a worry is something that ‘hangs in our mind’ and makes us feel upset and anxious a lot. The children also identified how this can be something that can be difficult to talk about or know how to fix. We then created our helping hands. We drew around our hands and then identified adults (and some friends) who we trust and could talk to when we are worried, for example teachers at school and mum and dad at home. It was lovely to see that as well as adults they are currently in contact with at school, some children also identified previous teachers they had been with as trusted points of contact. We wrote these names on our hands and put them in our trays to remind us who we can talk to if we are feeling worried.