UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children for accessing their TT Rockstars and earning their certificates.

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

A fabulous way to finish our half-term with our Spring Term disco. We had some fantastic dancers and wonderful games with prizes. Wonderful Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our wonderful children.

Article of the Week World Book Day

Hello, World Book Day is celebrated on the first Thursday in March in the UK. The event was created by UNESCO in 1995 as a worldwide celebration of books and reading. Spending just 10 minutes a day reading and sharing stories can make a crucial difference to a child’s future success and is fun for all involved.​ Reading stories is also a great opportunity to make links to rights. This pack focuses on Articles 17 (access to information from the media), 29 (the goals of education) and 31 (leisure, play and culture) but do feel free to make links to any right that fits with theme of a book in class where appropriate.

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In school we have enjoyed learning all about significant women who helped change the face of Science.

Class 1

Class 1 learned about the first woman who went into Space! It was so interesting and very inspiring 🙂

Class 2

We learnt all about Caroline Haslett.

Caroline Haslett was an engineer (someone who makes or works with machines and other mechanical equipment).

She wanted more women to be scientists and engineers and she believed that electricity could change women’s lives for the better and free them from exhausting housework. Caroline proved that women could do technical jobs just as well as men and could have careers in new fields of work.

Look at our amazing work ….

Class 3 

Class 3 looked at Marie Curie, who researched radioactivity and found a cure for cancer.

We looked at her amazing achievements and how she has made such a huge difference.  We learned that she was the first woman to to win a Noble Prize and each made a PowerPoint to show what we had found out.

Class 4 

In Class 4, we looked at Ruth Benerito and her amazing invention of wrinkle-free cotton! She also created this cotton to make it stain and fire proof, making this cotton material ideal for using in uniforms of doctors and firefighters! Her work helped the cotton farmers continue to make money and has made our lives a lot easier today!

We worked in our groups to present what we found out about Ruth before creating some fact files on her.

Class 5 

Today we welcomed Grace, from OASES, into school to learn all about an exciting new project we are embarking on …. Climate Friendly Schools.

In school we have been bust creating an action team, who will be helping us to become more climate friendly. This team is made up of adults and children in school.

Grace told us all about climate change and how we can work together to make a positive impact.

Thank you for a wonderful assembly Grace!

UNCRC Article 24 – right to a clean environment. 

We are so proud of Ryan … not only taking part in a football session with Craig’s Coaching but also gaining player of the week. Well done, keep up the hard work!

Today we had a lovely assembly delivered with resources from the RSPCA. We worked together, as a whole school, to discuss the importance of looking after animals and how we can help contribute to keeping our beaches safe. We looked at images to help us understand the importance of picking up our litter and phoning for help if we see a sick animal.

Thank you to the RSPCA.

A massive well done to our Tag Rugby team who represented us at the Durham and Chester le street SSP competition last week. We were so proud of their determination and passion they demonstrated throughout the sessions. They all showed off their skills they had learnt with Marc. Little super stars!

This week we have taken part in Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is Let’s Connect and throughout our curriculum, assemblies and Dress to Express Day we have helped to make a difference to the lives of children and young people across the UK. 👏🏼

Today, as part of Children’s Mental Health Week 2023 we Dressed to Express ourselves. The children and adults wore what they feel expresses their true self to school! We we drew names out of a hat across the whole school and each child wrote a kindness postcard to someone else in the school. In assembly, we hand delivered all of the postcards and the room was filled with happiness 🌟

#childrensmentalhealthweek2023

Class 1

We have been looking at how we can keep ourselves healthy on the inside as well as on the outside. We talked about superpowers and found out that Kindness is Powerful! The children had some fantastic ideas of what kindness means to them so we recorded it to share with you all! Remember, in a world where you can be anything, BE KIND 🤩

Class 2

All week in class we have engaged in activities to support our learning around the importance of mental health. We have had a visit from Eve (WEE), engaged in daily feeling fans, completed hand breathing exercises, discussed kindness in assembly, took part in whole school random acts of kindness certificates and finally dressed to express! Don’t we all look amazing!

Class 3

Class 3 have taken part in a range of activities this week, all linked to our mental health. We had a lesson from WE Elephants, which helped us express and manage our feelings. We looked at our thoughts, feelings, body feelings and behaviours and how we can change our unhelpful cycle to a helpful one. We have been focusing on the importance of being kind to our friends and we all received a lovely random act of kindness from one of our friends in school. All of the children made such a great effort for Dress to Express day!

 

Class 4

Class 4 have had a lot of fun taking parts in activities linked to mental health and sharing the importance of talking about how you feel! We worked in our UNCRC lesson to see what impact technology can have on our mental health, answered what mental health is and discussed why it is so important to speak about your mental wellbeing. We also took part in an extra special Feeling Fans, where we had to say one positive thing about ourselves before we spoke about our feelings. In assembly, we each received a postcard from one of our friends in school as a random act of kindness and had so much fun in our extra outdoor playtime!

Class 5

UNCRC Article 13 – freedom of expression

Class 5 have really enjoyed their activities in UNCRC this week linking it with our Children’s Mental Health Week. We have discussed how we can be kind to one another and how this makes both the giver and the receiver feel when we look after one another with kindness. In assembly, we wrote an act of kindness to a randomly drawn individual across the whole school. In class, we derived slogans, logos and designed a Kindness Poster for a Key Stage 3 (Hermitage) poster competition to keep our future Career links strong with the local secondary school. Rights Respecting Gold Ethos demonstrated by all.