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The prayer friends left with a cross that their prayer friend had made for them.

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The prayer friends left with a cross that their prayer friend had made for them.

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They chatted and enjoyed cake and drinks before playing games. The children shared some work they are proud of with their prayer friend and then the choir performed two songs. Everyone had a lovely afternoon.

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They chatted and enjoyed cake and drinks before playing games. The children shared some work they are proud of with their prayer friend and then the choir performed two songs. Everyone had a lovely afternoon.

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The Courageous Advocates and Worship Warriors enjoyed meeting their prayer friends at a tea party on Friday afternoon.

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The Courageous Advocates and Worship Warriors enjoyed meeting their prayer friends at a tea party on Friday afternoon.

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The Cultural Capital Committee delivered an interactive assembly on individual liberty.

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Meeting to prepare for whole school assembly on individual liberty.

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The Courageous Advocates and Worship Warriors created tea party invites to send to their prayer friends.

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The Courageous Advocates and Worship Warriors created tea party invites to send to their prayer friends.

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Mrs Bibby spoke to the eco group about some feedback from SLT about sprucing up the outdoor areas around school. Mrs Bibby suggested that the eco group organise a 'Gardening Day' for the whole school to contribute to improving our outdoor areas. The children discussed giving each class a different zone to be responsible for:

Reception - Reception playground

Year 1 - stage area

Year 2 - fire pit area

Year 3 - next to the trim trail (long part)

Year 4 - left corner of the trim trail

Year 5 - garden by the office

Year 6 - gardening area by Year 2 and Mrs Morris friendship bench

The eco group agreed that buying seeds and bulbs would be a good use of the money raised from Green Day earlier this year.

Next meeting - Wednesday 19th

Actions for the next meeting:

Take photos of each zone to show each class the area they are responsible for

Write a letter to Grozone to ask for support with this project

Order bulbs and seeds for each class

Design the timetable with 3-6 slots for classes to sign up to

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Positives -

-Better than expected

-More children and classes are getting to play

-People are sticking to the rota and remembering which day is theirs

-There are a lot less arguments about who can play now that people know

Negatives -

-Classes moaning that it isn't their day

-Y5 missed Cricket because of rain

-Multiple classes trying to play at once

Actions to go forward:

-SATs week hindered the rota flowing properly but this won't be an issue again because SATs is over!!!!!! (YAYYYYY) :)

-We can't control the weather so for now, let's continue to see how it goes.

-PLEASE CAN SPORTS LEADERS EXPLAIN TO CLASSES THAT THEY MUST ONLY PLAY ON THEIR DAYS (REMIND THEM WHEN THEIR DAYS ARE) AND MAKE SURE NOBODY IS GOING INTO THE CUPBOARD APART FROM SPORTS LEADERS

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We discussed the problem of Year 6 taking over too much at play times. The team mentioned that Basketball at break times and Cricket at lunch times were enjoyed by everybody.

Please find attached our notes, explaining our new rules and rotas for sport at break/lunch times.

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We have been given a box of donated books. Today we sorted them into year groups and then delivered them to class.

Happy reading

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25.3.24 Making Easter Cards for our Prayer Friends

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25.3.24 Making Easter Cards for our Prayer Friends

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The Courageous Advocates and the Worship Warriors enjoyed making Easter cards for their prayer friends. They created their own designs and added Easter well wishes inside.

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The Courageous Advocates and the Worship Warriors enjoyed making Easter cards for their prayer friends. They created their own designs and added Easter well wishes inside.

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The Oracy group presented their first whole school Picture News worship in the hall today. To celebrate British Sign Language week they discussed how high school children will have the option to take BSL as a GCSE from next year. They engaged with the children, provided important information and even had a guest speaker - Ellie-Mai, from Year 6. They were articulate and spoke with confidence. The whole school showcased their oracy skills too when they had opportunities to talk with their talk partner. Well done to the Oracy Group and Ellie-Mai too!

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The Cultural Capital Committee delivered a whole school assembly on democracy.

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Meeting to prepare for the whole school assembly on democracy.

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The eco group met to discuss what to use the money raised from Green Day on. Mrs Bibby told the group that we wouldn't be able to get a compost bin due to it attracting rats but that the school leadership team had shared that the garden area at the front of school was looking neglected. The eco group agreed to take on the area and use the money raised to improve it. The children are going to research which plants are best to encourage the natural wildlife and bring this to the next meeting. Mrs Bibby is going to find out a price for replacing the planter in the garden.

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Tips for Presenting (Class Worship - 12th March 2024)

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Tips for Presenting (Class Worship - 12th March 2024)

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On Tuesday 12th March, the oracy group members presented to their own class, sharing a list of tips that they had come up with on presenting to an audience.

They met with Mrs Malik and Miss Bryan to discuss useful tips that they had from their own experience of presenting and the Picture News training they had.

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We had such a great day celebrating World Book Day in school today. The day was organised by the oracy pupil voice group and the theme of the day was no rules poetry. Children enjoyed writing their own poems and each class learnt a poem which was performed in an assembly, led by the oracy group at the end of the day. Everyone dressed up as a 'wow word' and it was great to see a real buzz around vocabulary. Each class met in the hall with a different class to share their favourite books and it was lovely to see lots of talking. Well done to our fabulous oracy group for such a memorable day in school. 📚🗣️😄

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The Courageous Advocates delivered a brilliant assembly, talking to the whole school about what being a courageous advocate is and getting the children to think about the skills you need to be a courageous advocate and the ways you can do this. They finished with the important message that it is everyone's responsibility to be a Courageous Advocate.

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The Courageous Advocates met to receive their scripts for the assembly and run through their lines together.

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Meeting to plan what the children would say in the upcoming courageous advocacy assembly.

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The Sports group met to discuss how the new football rules were going at playtimes and see if there were any suggestions for improvements. We discussed having a timetable of different ball sports for each day of the week so it wasn't just football all the time. The children decided to ask their classes what games they would like to play at playtimes and we plan to use this to create a timetable for everyone to follow.

We also discussed keeping things fair for infants and juniors at lunchtimes and we will create a timetable for when infants can play and when juniors can play to ensure it is fair for everyone.

Once we have organised a timetable, we will adapt the football rules to create some generic rules for all ball games to ensure that everyone plays fairly and shows good sportspersonship.

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The Green Day and assembly went very well! The Eco pupil voice co-ordinators spoke clearly and got their message across to the whole school. We also raised almost £140!

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In today's meeting, the Worship Warriors came up with some actions to help everybody learn the Lord's Prayer. We created a video to share with all the classes.

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Today was Creative Worship. The theme was celebrating different beliefs and opinions. The Worship Warriors planned the creative worship with Miss Scholfield and led the different sessions throughout the morning. It was a great success and the Worship Warrior team were fantastic!

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Each week, the Worship Warriors take it in turns to open our celebration worship in prayer. Sometimes they write their own prayer beforehand and other times, they say a spontaneous prayer, with whatever pops in their mind at the time!

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The Worship Warriors led the school in prayer to open our Christmas Carols around the Tree Service.

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She shared lots of amazing facts, stories, objects and souvenirs, which we will use to inspire our outdoor worship area later in the year.

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Today the Worship Warriors had a meeting to hear some ideas from Mrs Whalley, who has seen some amazing prayer spaces on her travels in Japan.

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Oracy Group Meeting 21.02.24 World Book Day

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Oracy Group Meeting 21.02.24 World Book Day

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The PVG, Miss Bryan and Mrs Malik met with Mrs Tindall to discuss the plans for World Book Day. The attached plan was agreed and then shared with teachers.

The oracy group were very enthusiastic about the day ahead!

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Oracy Meeting - 20.02.24 Dine and Dialogue

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Oracy Meeting - 20.02.24 Dine and Dialogue

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The PVG met to discuss how they can promote Dine and Dialogue in the hall at lunchtimes. The children decided to go into the hall and discuss the day's D&D with different classes to promote 'talk'. They discussed the different sentence starters they would use and agreed on a rota. Miss Bryan will add their photos to the hall slides and the Oracy Operator for that day will wear a lanyard.

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The eco group met to decide on which songs they would like for their Green Day assembly and to practise their scripts. We made some changes to make the assembly more interactive and practised how to ask questions and take answers from the audience in a positive way.

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The Cultural Capital Committee wrote the newsletter, telling all of the parents/carers about what they did for Safer Internet Day and about the new internet safety rules we have in school.

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Last week we got to deliver the brand new books to each class. It was amazing to see the buzz we created around school. Everyone is talking about the new books and we can't wait to start reading them.

SOLS

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The Cultural Capital Committee delivered a whole school assembly about how to be safe online on Safer Internet Day.

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The Cultural Capital Committee met to rehearse the assembly they would be delivering to school on Safer Internet Day.

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On Wednesday 7th February the Oracy group and Miss Bryan did some Picture News pupil training.

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The oracy group suggested that it would be nice if other teachers came to their class to read to them during 'Stop and Read'

We tried this out during National Storytelling week.

On Friday 2nd February we had a teacher swap!

Reception Class: Miss Sholfield

Year 1: Miss Smith

Year 2: Miss Whaley

Year 3: Miss Bryan

Year 4: Mrs Malik

Year 5: Mrs Pearson

Year 6: Mr Eastwood

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We met to create the powerpoint and organise the script for the Green Day assembly.

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The children went to each class to share our new online safety rules and ask for them to be displayed and referred to whenever they use the Ipads/laptops.

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The penalty shoot-out was a huge success, the children really enjoyed it. The Courageous Advocates calculated the scores during each session and met at lunch to count up the money and scores to work out which planet had won the competition. They will announce the total money raised and the winning planet in assembly on Friday and it will go on the newsletter.

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Each class has recruited 2 walking to school ambassadors  to help spread this important message 

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Each class has recruited 2 walking to school ambassadors  to help spread this important message 

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We visited Waterstones! It was amazing getting to pick books from the wish lists. We really enjoyed it this. The next step for us is to add stickers inside each book and present them to the classes in the next week.

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The Courageous Advocates met to discuss the arrangements for the Cancer Bank fundraiser. They decided what they wanted to say in Friday worship and created a piece for the school newsletter to promote the fundraiser.

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We have now begun to plan our Green Day which will be taking place on Friday 9th February (last day before half term).

The children will ask everyone to wear something green on that day that they already own to show everyone that we can re-use things we already have.

The children will also do an assembly about the eco group and share advice on how to be more eco friendly. The children decided to focus on the messages around re-using things, how walking to school helps the environment (linking with the wellbeing group's walk to school challenge) and how to pack an eco friendly lunch box.

We will meet again to create the assembly resources on 31st January.

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The children were shown the video from Mr Theobalds about the Cancer Bank to see if they want to support this cause. The children made notes about the Cancer Bank while they watched the video and all agreed that they wanted to help. The children recorded a video to send to Mr Theobalds letting them know they would like to help and asking him for a list of things the Cancer bank need so we can plan ideas to fundraise for the items.

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Today we met to start planning our trip to Waterstones Book shop in Blackburn. We have asked each class to look at their original wish list and come up with seven books that they want us to buy for their book corner. We can't wait to go shopping with Mrs Tindall and Miss Whaley

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Feedback that some of the KS2 children gave us after the talking homework for work mental health day - Thank you parents and carers  

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Feedback that some of the KS2 children gave us after the talking homework for work mental health day - Thank you parents and carers  

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"Talking to my mum gives me confidence"

"Talking to my mum felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders"

"It gives you encouragement to carry on"

"It makes you feel relieved when you have someone to talk to"

"It helped me with my emotions"

"It went really well and helped me calm down"

"Made me feel peaceful"

"It helped me with things that are hard for me"

"My parents and me wrote our emotions down. It brightened my day because I never really get to talk about it to my parents"

"It was just really fun"

"If someone is sad we can talk to them"

"I like to get to know more about my family"

"I’m proud of my parents for sharing"

"Good because they talked about their worries"

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Our group started off the new year with a new year assembly to promote walking to school and the launch of the wow tracker We have researched how this works in other schools and decided that it would be a good thing to improve both mental and physical health in our school. We are going to appoint 2 wow ambassadors from each class to help us with this.

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Drama

(mixing classes)

Stop and Read - Different teachers

Miss Fitz - drama

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Animals

countries

Famous People

World records

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winter

Easter

Football

school

animals

chocolate bars

places we like to visit

holidays

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Colour

game

season

takeaway

TV show

subject

animal

book

SKAT

song

hobbies

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Today we met to discuss Dine & Dialogue and to get feedback from the Oracy P.V Group.

Ideas:

Did you Know?

Vocabulary/Wordsearch

Boggle

Games (Ping Pong)

Scategories

Friday Favourites!

The oracy group will take it in turns to support Reception and Year 1 to support their dine

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We created Christmas cards to send to our prayer friends.

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We have loved receiving replies from our prayer friends this week!

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We met to collect evidence from classes about the Green in 15 Challenge. All classes have collected their evidence and there are a few more challenges for the Eco Group to complete.

Mrs Bibby is going to investigate what paper we use in school and whether this is eco friendly.

Mrs Bibby is going to email the Deputy at Lower Darwen Primary School to share ideas and see what they do to be more eco-friendly.

We also began to plan a Green Day which will involve a non-uniform day to raise money for an eco charity and an assembly in the afternoon to raise awareness.

This is planned for Friday 9th February.

We will fully plan this day at the next meeting on Thursday 11th January 2024.

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Thank you to the PTFA for donating £50 per class to improve our reading corners. We are going into town to visit Waterstones to look at purchasing new books.

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We raised almost £150. Thank you for everyone's donations and purchases. We can't wait to buy more books.

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Meeting to decide what we think is important for online safety in school. Miss Smith and Miss Whaley will now ask staff for their ideas and then create a charter to be displayed in every class.

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Today the Courageous Advocates were paired with their prayer friend in the community. They have written their first letter to them, introducing themselves and asking questions to get to know them. They can't wait to post their letters and are eagerly waiting a reply!

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The Cultural Capital Committee led an assembly for the whole school on the British Value of mutual respect. They did a brilliant job and the children were engaged, answering questions and joining in with a song about respect.

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We had a meeting to count the money raised for Children in Need, find out which class won the bearpees challenge and decide the prize options for the winning class. The grand total raised by school for Children in Need was £149.75! Y1 won the bearpees challenge with 6897 bearpees and they chose a non-uniform day from the list of prizes the Courageous Advocates gave them.

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Had a meeting to prepare for our first British Values assembly this year which will be about mutual respect. The children decided which lines they would like to say and practised ready for Thursday.

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The SOLS group have interviewed potential new staff members today. They did an absolutely fantastic job and were professional at all times. Their feedback was invaluable and their oracy skills were excellent.

All of the Senior Leadership team have been blown away by their amazing efforts.

WELL DONE SOLS!

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KS2 took part in a live, interactive webinar from Picture News about British Values.

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The Courageous Advocates went to each class to tell the children and staff all of the information about what we will be doing to raise money for Children in Need this year.

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The Worship Warriors have been very busy collecting their classes favourite worship and Christmas songs, so these can be used in future plans.

The children shared these with each other today and we also discussed our next actions.

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Today we met to create a list of questions that we can use when we interview new staff members.

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Meeting to decide what the children will be telling classes when they go around school to inform them the details of what we will be doing to raise money for Children in Need next week. They were given the resources to pass on to teachers. They will also show the posters they have all created at home to raise awareness for the event.

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Sports:

Basketball

Tag-Rugby

Tennis/badminton

Riding Bikes

Cricket

Golf

Dance

Yoga

Kung Fu/Martial Arts

Skipping

Gymnastics

Dodgeball

Archery

Hockey

Other:

Baking/cooking

Films

Drama

Colouring

Competition club with different challenges

Games

Play doh/Modelling

Gardening/Outdoor Learning

Reading

Creative Writing

Computer club

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7-a side with bibs

Cannot play without a bib

If someone leaves to play somewhere else, put your bib back in the box and someone new can play

Juniors for the first half an hour of break time and infants for the second

Needs to be a member of staff watching

Member of staff or member of sports pupil voice refereeing the game - they also need to sort the teams to it's fair

Any arguing or pushing and you will be asked to leave

If the same people are arguing and pushing consistently, they will be banned from football for the rest of the week

If we can prove we can play football sensibly, we will be able to introduce more/new sports at lunch times and break times

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The Eco group visited each class and spoke to the children about the Green in 15 Challenge on Friday 3rd November.

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Today the Eco group met to discuss the Green in 15 challenge. We talked about how to tell classes what we would like them to do and when we would like the evidence back from classes. We created a powerpoint to share with each class and decided on the deadline of 30th November. On Friday, the children visited each class to explain the challenge and give each class an activity to complete.

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Children in Need meeting

We decided that the children will share their posters and tell the whole school about our Children in Need 'Bearpee' challenge in Worship next Friday. We decided what each child will say. After the assembly the children will put the poster they have made up in their class and give each class a form to tally their points up on. This will also go on next week's newsletter as a message from the Courageous Advocates.

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All SOLS members have returned to the meeting with a reading wish list from each class.

We have written a letter to the PFTA requesting a small donation. Mrs Tindall will send this off to the PTFA.

Before the next meeting, SOLS members will write in the newsletter to share this idea.

Great work, SOLs.

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We had a meeting to discuss Children in Need. We decided each class will come in non-uniform and take part in the Pudsey Bearpee challenge on the 17th of November. Children will bring in a voluntary donation of £1 which will be sent to Children in Need. The class who wins the challenge will get to choose from a list of prizes created by the Courageous Advocates. The Courageous Advocates are going to make posters for this over half term which they will then share with classes when we return.

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Y2 created an assembly on internet safety which they have been looking at in computing this half term. Miss Smith, Miss Whaley and the Cultural Capital Committee attended. We were all very impressed with their knowledge!

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The eco group met to discuss the Green Trees School Award Green in 15 challenge.

We have decided to run with this challenge that will involve the whole school and do the Cut your Carbon challenge later in the year.

We decided which classes will do which challenges and which challenges the eco group will complete ourselves. We will launch this after half term.

The next meeting is the first Thursday back.

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Actions:
To get new books for the class reading corners by finding out what kind of books our classes would like to see more of.
1. Speak to our classes and find out what books they want in the reading corner
2. Write to the PTFA and ask if they would consider donationg a small amount of money for new books
3. Raise money to buy our own books by collecting book donations then selling them at a book sale for 50p.

All SOLS members to ask their classes for a wish list.

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13/10/23 This week the pupil voice group shared this book around the classes. The message is - Talk about how you are feeling. Don't bottle things up!

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13/10/23 This week the pupil voice group shared this book around the classes. The message is - Talk about how you are feeling. Don't bottle things up!

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World Mental health Day KS2 Homework – October 23

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World Mental health Day KS2 Homework – October 23

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Here is some of the feedback from homework set put the pupil voice wellbeing group – Talk about how we are feeling:

Y6

Discussed friendship issues with mum and she said walk away and forget about it.

Some kids being mean on the park She told her mum and felt better.

Talking to my mum gives me confidence

Talking to my mum felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders

It gives you encouragement to carry on.

It makes you feel relieved when you have someone to talk to.

Y5

It helped me with my emotions

It went really well and helped me calm down.

Made me feel peaceful

It helped me with things that are hard for me.

Y4

My parents and me wrote our emotions down. It brightened my day because I never really get to talk about it to my parents.

It was just really fun.

If someone is sad we can talk to them.

Y3

I like to get to know more about my family. I’m proud of my parents for sharing.

Good because they talked about their worries.

I talked to my mummy and brother

Great homework everyone – Keep talking!

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Joseph and Leon researched some eco charities. We voted for the group we want to raise money for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

We looked at the Eco Schools Cut Your Carbon challenge for November.
We will sent out the challenge sheet with all children as homework on Monday 30th October. Anyone who brings it back by the end of November with a photo for each challenge will get 10 dojos.

On Monday 30th October, the eco group will visit each class to explain and deliver the challenge sheets.

On 16th November, the Eco Group will deliver an assembly about the Cut Your Carbon challenge.

Next meeting: 12pm Thursday 19th October
Agenda - Cut Your Carbon Challenge
Email the Courageous Advocates group about collaborating with them to raise money.

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The three main aims that we would like to achieve this year are..
1. Spread awareness of world mental health day
2. Spread awareness of child mental health week in February
3. Monitor the wellbeing of all the pupils in school through the well being questionnaire

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The three main aims we would like to achieve this year are:
1. To ensure everyone in school knows how to be safe online.
2. To further discuss and embed British Values in school.
3. To make sure everyone knows how to live out the British Values.

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Cultural Capital Committee group members

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Cultural Capital Committee group members

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Miss Smith and Miss Whaley
Y6 Jennie

Y5 Harrison

Y4 Harry

Y3 Karthik

Y2 Zuzanna

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Our first meeting was a great success!

Here are our three aims for the year.