Author: Mrs Taylor

Allerton Grange sports leaders

Over the year, Year 2-Year 6 will visit Allerton Grange to take part in PE sessions organised by their sports leaders.

There are many benefits of these sessions:

  • Allerton Grange sports leaders have the opportunity to practise and develop their skills with a class
  • the sessions support our positive relationship with Allerton Grange
  • our pupils visit a local high school
  • the children get to enjoy a PE session in a different environment and see positive role models (the leaders)
  • the sessions give a positive image to physical activity
  • pupils reinforce their road safety knowledge as they walk to Allerton Grange
Here is some great feedback from the Year 4 session last week.
‘Last week, I brought my Year 4 class to Allerton Grange for a sports session.  Despite the rain, the children were so enthusiastic about the outing.  We were so very impressed with the organisation demonstrated by your students. My class were engaged from the start to the finish.  The high school students interacted with all the children and were very supportive to children who lack confidence in sport.   It was a great experience and made even better by the commitment, organisation and the amount of fun had by the younger children.’

October active travel prize winners

We’ve awarded the final voucher prizes for our October active travel prize draw.

Well done to Isla, Year 2, and Jasraj, Year 4, who won the week 4 and overall October month prizes for travelling to school in an active way.

The Living Streets’ WOW interactive travel tracker allows children to record, in class, their daily journey to school and children will continue to be awarded themed badges at the end of every month for travelling actively.

An active journey includes:

  • walking
  • scooting
  • biking
  • park and stride

We want to reduce the number of cars outside school so if you do have to travel by car, we recommend parking away from the school gate maybe at our preferred park and stride location, Marks & Spencer.

As always, keep safe while travelling.

School Council 2018-2019

Meet our newly elected school councillors, chosen democratically by their class.

Their first meeting will be held next week.  On the agenda is to discuss bullying (as part of anti-bullying week), Takeover Day and to consider what they might want to spend their library and class reward budgets on.

All children are encouraged to make suggestions to their school councillors (by posting their suggestion slip in each class’ Living and Learning box) for ideas/concerns to be discussed.

Anti-bullying week – odd socks day

Next week is Anti-bullying Week. This year’s theme is ‘Choose Respect’ and we will be joining in with Odd Socks Day on Monday 12 November.

This day is to raise awareness of our differences, individuality and personal choice. There is no need for any payment – your child should simply wear odd socks and join in the fun!

Thank you for your support.

Living and learning – Identity

Our Living and Learning theme this half-term is Identity. Pupils will learn about what makes themselves and others special, valuing the similarities and differences between themselves and others and what is meant by community. This will be taught through our Living and Learning sessions and also a focused week – Anti-bullying week (12 November).

Also this half term, our new school charity will be chosen.  Every year, we nominate a new charity to support. This year, we have been supporting MakeAWish. We decide this on the basis of a Talk Time homework, and then school councillors make the final decision.

Our Living and Learning long term plan details the learning for each year group across the year and you can keep up to date with our weekly Living and Learning statements on the parent noticeboard in the playground and also on the school calendar.  We will begin and end this half term with a focus on manners.

I apologise when I need to.

I say please and thank you.

Active travel in October – week three winner

Well done to our week three winner who made active journeys to school every day last week.

Our active travel section on the website has recently been updated.  Have a look at some of the initiatives we take part in to encourage a happy and healthy start to the school day.

Living and Learning – democracy

Within the upcoming School Council elections, we’ve been considering one of the British Values, democracy, in our weekly Living and learning lesson.

This week, it’s our School Council elections. School Councils are democracy in action and we want to promote democracy as a way for children to have a say in what goes on.

Voting is all about democracy:

demo means ‘people’ and cracy means ‘ruling and decision-making’.

We’re excited to hear all the candidate’s speeches ready for the election on Thursday and we reminded ourselves about the voting process:

  • Vote once for one person
  • You can vote for yourself
  • Choose someone who has the best qualities to become a good school councillor rather than just voting for a friend
  • You can abstain, not to vote

Thank you to Olivia and Eleanor who have represented the class so well as our school councillors and good luck to all the candidates this week.

Living and Learning: Confident Me self-esteem and body confidence workshop

Recently, Year 5 and 6 took part in a Confident Me self-esteem and body confidence workshop led by representatives from Dove and Unilever.

Body image forms part of our Living and Learning later in the year and as children comment they enjoy visitors delivering Living and Learning, we were keen to run this workshop once again.

The Confident Me Workshop is one of the Dove Self-Esteem Project’s programmes.  It addresses issues of body confidence and low self-esteem. The workshop covers topics such as: appearance, beauty and body image and examines how images of models, actors and celebrities are fabricated or manipulated to portray a ‘perfection’ against which our kids often measure themselves.  Most of all, the workshops help young people develop the skills and behaviours that lead to positive self-esteem and body confidence.

Resources are available to parents to support and follow up this learning at home.