Today we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up and reading anything silly, funny or a bit naughty! Mrs Davids wore a giant poo on her head all day (she was dressed as a book character, honest!) and families and staff shared pictures of themselves reading in silly situations or costumes. We had lots of fun reading and hope that everyone is inspired to 'be a reader'. 

Last week, the whole school took part in a Journey Day. Our focus was courageous advocacy. We started the day by thinking about what courage meant to us, and how people in history and people today act courageously for things that they believe in or to make the world a better place for others. 

Thank you to all of our families who have donated food and toiletries in our Reverse Advent collection. These have been donated to our local Food Bank to help families this Christmas. Thank you for your generosity!

The School Council met this week to judge the Anti-bullying poster competition. Thank you for all of the fantastic entries! Congratulations to Max in Y1, Zachary in Y3 and Jessica in Y5 for the winning designs! These will be made into posters that will be displayed around the school. 

We all enjoyed dressing up in our Christmas clothes on Friday 10th December. We collected donations for Save the Children. We also celebrated with our school Christmas lunch, it was 'the best roast ever' according to a few children! 

Every class also took part in the Santa Dash, chasing our very own Santa around the field!

As part of our Harvest celebrations, we collected money for Christian Aid’s Harvest Appeal. We learnt about women in Malawi whose homes and farms had been destroyed by flooding and strong winds. We donated money to help them with their new business of making juice from the baobab.

We learnt that the storms and floods that affected Malawi were caused by climate change, and that climate change will continue to cause extreme weather all over the world. 

Every child in our school made a prayer boat and we sent these images to Cop26 to show our support for climate change. Our prayers asked God to help the world leaders make changes to protect the world from climate change.

On the 27^th January 2021, our school commemorated ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’. The day is used to remember the six million Jews and other ethnic groups who were murdered by the Nazis as well as those who died in subsequent genocides.

The theme for this year was ‘Be the light in the darkness’.

Using this theme, the staff, parents and children at our school lit a candle to remember all those who were murdered and to stand against prejudice and hatred in the world today.