Character
Spring Team on the Zip-Wire
Spring team completed the zip-wire challenge yesterday in the snow and frost. Everyone took part and gave it a go and it has proved a highlight of the trip for many so far.
Spring team completed the zip-wire challenge yesterday in the snow and frost. Everyone took part and gave it a go and it has proved a highlight of the trip for many so far.
In Beliefs and Values we have been looking at rules and routines, within this we looked at what honest means and the 10 commandments. The children ordered the commandments deciding which ones were important to them as a group. They had good ideas and worked well as groups to create Read more…
One of the character values we are focussing on this term is also one of our school core values: kindness. With it being near Christmas, class 12 put a more giving twist on our advent calendar by thinking of 25 acts of kindness they could follow in and around school. Read more…
Yesterday, we did our first Langauage and Communication lesson marking the start of a school focus on improving our speaking and listening skills. The question we were discussing was: To what extend should adults influence the decisions we make? In the boy in the striped pyjamas, Bruno is forced to Read more…
Class 9 were lucky enough to have a visit from the charity, Guide Dogs UK today. Frieda, who volunteers for the charity, brought Henry the Labrador in to meet the children and talk to them about how guide dogs help blind people. The children found out about the process involved Read more…
Today we were lucky to be joined by 5 other schools from our local area who came to join our PLT representatives Alex and Benny, to share ideas from our schools. We created posters informing each other about what we do, what improvements we make, and what makes our schools Read more…
This week in Class 9 we have been looking at the value of kindness. We watched a video demonstrating the power of small acts of kindness before working together to make a kindness paper chain to hang in the classroom. On each link in the chain we wrote a small Read more…
In our first week as class 12, we completed the important task of electing our new PLT members. Each child wrote their own letter to their class, describing what qualities the have that would make them an effective leader, why they would like to have this role and plans they Read more…
The Anti-Bullying Ambassadors have been working hard to ensure that children across the school know about bullying and the vital work that the anti-bullying ambassadors do across school. As a result of a recent questionnaire they identified that Year 1 children were a little bit unsure about this, so they Read more…
Today in English, class 11 worked on using effective communication during various games and activities. We discussed how important it was to be able to have good speaking and listening skills and how this would help them as they progress through their school life and eventually worklife too. In one Read more…