Kicking off our right of the month across the school, lots of creative activities have been going on. We celebrated world book day on Thursday with lots of book related activities, crafts and reading buddies. Year five used art in RE to learn about Christianity. Year Four made masks inspired by their favourite books. This morning, year one have been practising their maths skills through matching activities and year two have been building models of Buckingham palace and presenting their work to their classes. 
Archie says: ‘I would rather learn by doing creative things because art is my favourite subject and it is fun. We learn more and make our work better.’
Maddison says: ‘I like to be able to write and practise things in my books too.’
As teachers we are always looking to balance both in our classes

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

On Friday 14th February, we met with the Ethos committee (Mrs Harding and Mrs Twiggs) to discuss our work so far and how we can help our Christian school grow. We discussed and agreed upon a new definition of spirituality and what it means to us. We were all agreed that it makes more sense and is easily understood by all. We also talked about future fundraising ideas through soccer aid and church collections.

   

 

We all have the right to an education which celebrates our talents. In praise assembly we have been celebrating this by running an entertainment section each week. Last week year five girls Alesha and Erin stood in front of the whole school and sang a song they had learned in choir with Miss Bray. 

They said : we believe the right to have our own talents is very helpful and inspiring to others and we really enjoy having he chance to experience this in school.

Our year 6s summed up NSPCC number day perfectly. In their own words:

We were dressing up because of the rights respecting NSPCC day. Article 24 is for everyone to have clean food and water, also for the richer countries to help the poor. NSPCC means: National Society for the Provention of Cruelty to Children. We dressed up to show we have the right to be heard , to be loved, to relax and have fun. As these are so,e of our rights, our school has days to tell us about our rights and this was one of the days we got to celebrate them. Article 24 means you have the right to the best health care possible, safe Easter to drink, nutritious food to eat, a clean and safe environment and information to help you stay well.
Year two learned that the NSPCC are there to keep us safe. We have the right to be safe, eat food and drink water. If we are worried then we can call 0800 11 11.

Article 17- we have the right to find information and use the Internet in a safe way.

The internet is a brilliant resource for researching and communicating. We want to be able to use it. We made news reports this afternoon to teach our parents how to stay safe online with us. We also decorated digital footprints and discussed what we do online and how to stay safe doing it. 

In worship on Monday 3rd February , KS2 talked about justice. Children have a right to be safe. We talked about the right to have food, the right to have water, the right to have a safe home and clothing to keep us warm. These are our basic rights. These things make our world fair. If only the rich people had these rights then there would be a lot of poverty in our world and this is not fair. 

Poppy and Rohan (yr 5 rights ambassadors). 

   
 

You will now see in all of our classrooms that we have our rights in different places- some link to our learning, some link to the resources we provide, some link to our environment. Take a look next time you are in the classrooms and see which ones you can find.  

    
    
 

  

To raise funds for environmental support Sam and his ‘Shark Academy’ team are holding a book sale. They are promoting their cause around school and sending all the funds they raise to WWF. We are proud as a school to give them their chance to have their say and promote a cause that means a lot to them. 

  

To celebrate the birthday of The Convention on The Rights of The Child, and to continue our work for our right of the month- article 1, the right to know and understand our rights- we held a child led afternoon. Our Rights Ambassadors chose a range of activities and every child was able to choose a classroom to spend the afternoon in. We learned about our rig to be creative, our right to rest and play, our right to grow spiritually and mentally and our right to be safe and looked after.

Below are some photos of us enjoying our activities.