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The oracy group met today to compile a list of words they feel should be 'banned' in school. They hope this will improve spoken English in school. The group generated ideas for a poster and Mrs Malik and Miss Bryan will discuss it with teachers next week and then feedback to the group

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The Worship Warriors had a wonderful time meeting their prayer friends this afternoon! They enjoyed cakes and drinks, showed them some of the work they are proud of, played games together, made each other a bookmark to keep and finished the afternoon listening to the choir singing!

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The Courageous Advocates had a wonderful time meeting their prayer friends this afternoon! They enjoyed cakes and drinks, showed them some of the work they are proud of, played games together, made each other a bookmark to keep and finished the afternoon listening to the choir singing!

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The children and staff had a fabulous time taking part in our Zumbathon to raise money for The Cancer Bank!

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The Courageous Advocates had a meeting to finalise the Zumbathon. They then went to each class to tell them the important information about the event and give them a poster to put up in class.

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The Courageous Advocates met with Miss Smith and Mrs Malik to start planning a sponsored Zumbathon to raise money for The Cancer Bank.

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The Courageous Advocates went out with Miss Smith, Mrs Malik and Mrs Tindall to look at the path and field and prepare the points they are going to say when the local MP comes to visit on Friday.

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Our group has decided to host St James' first Reading Cafe. We hope to plan a day full of lovely books, important information and of course a few nibbles to enjoy.

More information about this will be sent out soon.

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Our Cultural Capital Committee did a great job of reminding everyone about our St James' Online Safety rules.

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The children have written, signed and sent their letters to the local MP and chief executive at the local council about improving conditions on the path outside of school.

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Our Peer Mentors met to discuss the theme of this year's Children's Mental Health Week and opened up the live assembly by sharing how they know themselves and how they want to grow.

Pictures Below

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The children have been writing replies to their prayer friend letters.

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The Courageous Advocates had their first meeting of the new year to discuss writing to their MP about the safety of the path outside school. Several people have raised their concerns about how unsafe the path is in recent weeks, due to the snow and ice. The children discussed the problem and are making plans to write letters to their local MP to try and improve the situation for the local community.

Lottie and Lily-Mai (Worship Warriors) also attended the meeting to feedback about Courageous Advocacy from the workshop conference they attended with Miss Scholfield

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19.12.24 - Christmas cards for our prayer friends

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19.12.24 - Christmas cards for our prayer friends

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The children designed and made Christmas cards for their prayer friends. Lots of thought went into making and writing the cards and we are sure they will enjoy receiving them.

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12.12.24 - British Values assembly on Individual Liberty

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12.12.24 - British Values assembly on Individual Liberty

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The Cultural Capital did a great job in teaching the whole school about individual liberty. The children had lots of opportunities for discussion and sharing and took part in a game.

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The children wrote introductory letters to their prayer friends.

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The children wrote introductory letters to their prayer friends.

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No Pens Day Certificate Winners and Reasons

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No Pens Day Certificate Winners and Reasons

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Y2 - Shivani helped Mrs Wilton

Y3 - Scarlett helped Miss Whaley

Y4 - Alaya helped Miss Smith

Y5 - Harry helped Mr Dickinson

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We helped to give out the awards in Celebration Worship.

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We helped to give out the awards in Celebration Worship.

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We hosted a 'No Pens Day' today and it was a great success. There was a real buzz around school and children clearly enjoyed putting their pens (and pencils) down for the day.

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We met on Monday 25th November to come up with ideas for the No Pens Day that the Oracy Pupil Voice Group are holding on Wednesday 27th November.

The Oracy group are very excited about the day. They are going to work with their teacher to award the person they feel has really 'shone' throughout the day with their Oracy Skills.

They liked the idea of storytelling based on a picture. We agreed this would be a SODA for all classes.

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13.11.24 Giants of Faith Worship Conference

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13.11.24 Giants of Faith Worship Conference

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Today Miss Scholfield and two of the Worship Warriors are attending a Giants of Faith Conference with Blackburn with Darwen Diocese. The children are sharing some fantastic thoughts and are gathering some wonderful ideas to implement at school. They are very excited about the conference and also about the treats and snacks!

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We met to discuss our first initiative. The children would like school to enter a nationwide competition. Our pupil voice group will lead a whole school assembly about reduce, reuse and recycling materials. They will introduce the competition brief and ask classes to take part. They will then collect the entries in and choose the best three from each class and post them off. There are cash prizes to be won for individuals and schools.

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Thank you to our Courageous Advocates for organising and informing everyone about Children in Need this year. The children had a great non-uniform day dressed in Pudsey items and learning about why this is such a great cause. The Courageous Advocates also collected and counted the money. We raised a fantastic £156.87. Thank you for all of your kind donations!

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Well done to our Courageous Advocates who have been to all of the classes each day to sell items from the poppy appeal to raise money for the Royal British Legion. Lots of the children were wearing these with pride today when we learnt about Remembrance Day and had our one minute silence.

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Today, we have discussed how we would like to read with other year groups like reading buddies. We will create a timetable to say which classes are reading to which year groups. We will also look at buying a stamp so that the eldest reading buddy can stamp the reading records. Watch this space.

We are also going to organise a reading event for our parents/carers.

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Our Courageous Advocates have been busy selling poppies in school to raise money for the Royal British Legion.

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3.10.24 Collection for Blackburn Food Bank 

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3.10.24 Collection for Blackburn Food Bank 

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The Worship Warriors handed over the food donations to Blackburn Food Bank on behalf of the school. The donations were gratefully received, along with the harvest crafts and cards made during creative worship. A huge thank you to our families who donated.

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Our worship warriors have been very brave each leading the whole school in prayer on a weekly basis during celebration worship.

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17.10.24 - British Values assembly on democracy

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17.10.24 - British Values assembly on democracy

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The Cultural Capital Committee did a fantastic job teaching the whole school about democracy. The children were actively involved in the assembly as they had to make their own choices.

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We met to prepare for our first whole school assembly of the year.

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We had our first meeting to discuss what we would like to achieve this year. Please see our aims below.

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Meet our wonderful new Cultural Capital Committee!

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Meet our wonderful new Cultural Capital Committee!

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Our Cultural Capital Committee Pupil Voice group members have been announced! Well done to Arlo-Drae (Y2), Tallulah (Y3), Oscar (Y4), Thomas (Y5) and Muhammed-Yusuf (Y6). Miss Smith and Miss Whaley are looking forward to working with you all this year.

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We had our first meeting to discuss what we would like to achieve this year. Please see our three aims below.

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Our Peer Mentors recorded a video to let people know about Hello Yellow Day and the importance of our mental health.

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Our fabulous wellbeing group and peer mentors 💕

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Our fabulous wellbeing group and peer mentors 💕

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To make people feel happy, safe and supported in school. We want to help solve younger children's problems and help them deal with their emotions. We want to help everyone understand about mental health and how important it is.

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Copy of Green Leaves Background Watercolor Presentation

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Y2- Evie

Y3- Zuzannah

Y4- Daisy-Bluebell

Y5- Felix

Y6- Saif

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Today the SOLS met with our School Improvement Officer to discuss the recruitment of new staff.

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Our new Peer Mentors have completed their training in the summer term supported by the retiring Year 6 Mentors.

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Meet our wonderful new Worship Warrior team!

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Meet our wonderful new Worship Warrior team!

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Elliot - Y6

Lily-Mai - Y5

Lottie - Y4

Maisie - Y3

Ebony - Y2

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We developed our mission statement for the year and discussed our aims for the year.

Develop prayer across school

Create exciting areas for worship and prayer in the school environment

Build confidence of new Worship Warrior team

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1. To establish a group of prayer friends in our local community.

2. To work with local charities.

3. To make a difference to a global cause.

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We created our mission statement together and the children came up with some really good ideas.

Our three main aims this year:

1. To make sure that talk rules are embedded in each class and to provide training for other P.V groups to support development.

2. To organise whole school oracy themed days to promote the importance of oracy in everyday life.

3. To celebrate and monitor the oracy outcomes in school.

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Today we met and created our mission statement for the year.

The 3 main aims we would like to achieve this year are;

1. Improving learning

2. Reviewing behavior

3. Improving the school environment

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We are very proud to annouce our Oracy group members this year:

Shivani (y2)

Scarlett (y3)

Alaya (y4)

Harry (y5)

Debbie-Leigh (y6)

Mrs Malik and Miss Bryan are looking forward to working with you this year as we develop Oracy further throughout school.

Well done to you all! 🗣️

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Meet our wonderful new Courageous Advocates!

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Meet our wonderful new Courageous Advocates!

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Our Courageous Advocate Pupil Voice group members have been announced! Well done to Amelia-Rose (Y2), Amelia H (Y3), Christy (Y4), Esme-Rose (Y5) and Jacob (Y6). Mrs Malik & Miss Smith are looking forward to working with you all this year.

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Our new SOLs have been announced! Mrs Tindall can't wait to work with you all this year.

Well done to Riley, Mila, Eska, & Shanvika.

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Our new Sports Leaders have been announced. Well done to:

Y2 - Layla-Grace and Harley

Y3 - Eryk and Kaleb

Y4 - Peter, Tyler and Emilia

Y5 - Leon and Finn

Y6 - Lily-Mae and Harrison

We have met and discussed what we want for the playground. We would like more zones, with a variety of different things to play with such as balance equipment, throwing equipment and bikes and scooters.

This will be discussed at our next meeting. We have created a list of things to spend our voucher on from our fundraising event with Danny Butler.