We have got off to a flying start. The staff used a twilight inset to plan the year's events and Class 5 kicked us off with a litter pilgrimage on the 24th January . They will be using this event as the basis of their public speaking presentation at the Catenians Public Speaking contest in March.
On the same day , Class Four created their presentations for a World Peace Day Assembly later in the year in November .
On Tuesday 6th March, the school kicked off its Big Lent Walk preparations by setting up and sharing its Just Giving page . The school raised over £250 for Cafod.
On Thursday 13th March , Class Two took part in the first of a series of Disconnect to Reconnect days. Without the Internet and in minimal lighting , they did arithmetic , guided reading , wrote packing lists for visiting Antarctica or the Sahara Desert , had a PE lesson and a two hour epic painting session.
As an extra layer to our Live Simply Award ,we have introduced a number of environmentally friendly initiatives in school.
In an effort to reduce the purchase and disposal of green paper towels ( which are not recyclable ) children are being encouraged to use towels ( washed at home by staff ) and the air dryers . We are consciously not stocking the staff toilet or the busy room with paper towels to encourage the use of air dryers.
Mrs Farthing and her eco champions ( who are KS 2 Chaplains ) are now washing out and recycling yoghurt pots used at lunchtime.
Mrs Gordge is no longer purchasing as many traditional Pritt Sticks but is topping up with refillable glue sticks. In addition , we are trialling the use of white board pencils rather than buying white board pens.
Our Big Lent Walk took place on Friday 7th March . We walked 525 km and smashed our £200 target for Cafod.
Our outdoor prayer garden is really coming together and looks lovely now that the bee planting is coming through.
The children from KS 1 are installing the final touches to our Summer Prayer Garden which can be used for informal prayer by children, staff and visitors to the school throughout the summer months .
Using recycled wood as signs for our Live Simply Prayer Garden.
On Monday 12th May , children from Class 4 visited the Open Door Project in Mount Street to find out more about their work there and to compile a list of 'needs' for their collection . Class 4 and Class 3 will spend the next 6 months collecting and will deliver the donations to Open Door in November as the Jubilee Year draws to a close.
Only wild flowers were used at our Marian Procession this year in line with our living simply approach . They came from a teacher's no mow meadow which was a live simply pledge at the beginning of the year.
On Friday 16th May , the school took part in a Disconnect to Reconnect Day . Teachers made use of our beautiful grounds to undertake outdoor learning and took the opportunity to undertake art and creative writing lessons. There are no photos available due to the nature of the day but everyone relished the chance to work without electricity for the day
