Year 4 created their own Roman shield, which were inspired by their class trip the Roman Lunt Fort. They looked at images of real Roman shields and discussed the design and patterns. Then they created their own shield using coloured card and pens to draw their design.
During Anti Bullying week, the School Council and UNICEF committee met to discuss and edit the school’s Anti Bullying Policy.
The children worked together to identify parts of the policy that were important, how to make sure ALL children know what the policy says and how best to share the policy with others.
The children came up with two ideas.
Article 31: Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.
Article 29: Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment.
Article 3: The best interests of the child must be a top priority in all things that affect children.
Article 12: Every child has the right to have a say in all matters affecting them, and to have their views taken seriously.
Article 14: Every child has the right to think and believe what they want and to practise their religion, as long as they are not stopping other people from enjoying their rights. Governments must respect the rights of parents to give their children information about this right.
Article 15: Every child has the right to meet with other children and to join groups and organisations, as long as this does not stop other people from enjoying their rights.
School Council and UNICEF
This week Green class have participated in the Into Film Festival. This is a free, nationwide celebration of film and education for 5-19 year olds.
After a brisk walk downhill to Aston train station, a quick train ride into Birmingham New Street station and a few more steps around the corner, Green class arrived at the Electric Cinema ready to watch The Little Mermaid.
The Electric Cinema is the oldest working cinema in the U.K. and showed its first silent film in December 1909. Have a look inside this magnificent space and go upstairs to screen 2. This is where Green class sat in comfort on large sofas and cosy reclining seats. http://www.theelectric.co.uk/walkthrough/outside.html.
The Little Mermaid story,especially the setting has given Year 3 lots of wonderful ideas for their narrative writing.
This week has been Anti-bullying week and in year 5 the children discussed how we could be kind to each other. Each child was asked to say something nice about a classmate and write it on a post it note, which was placed on a board for them to read.
The school nurse paid a visit and spoke to the children. She gave them advice on how to help stop bullying if it was happening to themselves, or if they witnessed it happening to others.
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During art lessons we have been looking at the works of the Victorian artist William Morris. We particularly liked the way he used repeating patterns. In the coming weeks we hope to take our designs and produce clay relief tiles.
This week, we were lucky to have our parents join us in our classroom for Year 1’s maths workshop. We were able to show our parents the clever learning we do at school. We have continued our learning about measure and were able to measure in a range of ways.
How tall is Mia’s mummy?
During PSHE this week Year 6 continued to talk about safety. Children discussed with their peers the different types of risks which they are aware of and suggested ways to avoid these risks.
During this week in PSHE Year 5 looked at Peer pressure. We discussed what peer pressure was and the different types of peer pressure that exists. Later in the lesson, children used the ‘conscious alley’ technique to explore the negative and positive advice which their peers might share in response to a scenario. All children were very sensible with the suggestions and took part really well. By the end of the lesson children were able to identify may positive ways to deal with peer pressure.
This week in PSHE Year 4 looked at people that we feel we can trust and talk to. Children created a ‘Helping Hand’ where they listed 5 people that they feel that they could share their thoughts or worries with. We explored the qualities that all of these people had in common. Later, we discussed different positive ways to deal with our worries.
During PSHE this week children looked at the different emotions which we have as individuals and the ways in which we can show our emotions through actions. Chn created their own role-plays to demonstrate the emotions which they would feel and thought carefully about the actions which would match these emotions.
