Celebration certificates
Our certificates this week go to…
For great learning…
Joseph – for challenging yourself in all lessons this week.
For sport and physical activity…
William – for great enthusiasm and determination in PE.
For living and learning…
Gabriel – you know how to be a great friend and respect similarities and differences.
Numbotters of the week– Ava A and Edward for earning loads of stars!
Our new class reward system is still going down well too. For making good choices throughout the day, children can write their name on a raffle ticket (some children have got 9 or 10 tickets in this week). On a Friday, 5 winners will be drawn out and can choose a prize from the Raffle Reward box.
Anti-bullying week 19-20 November 2020
This week, it’s Anti-Bullying Week and the theme for this year is ‘United against bullying’.
We took part in Odd Socks Day this Monday to celebrate our differences.
STOP is a key message linked to bullying. In our school, STOP stands for two things:
- the definition: Several Times On Purpose
- the solution: Start Telling Other People
Recently, our school council (now called the Junior Leadership team) met to review our school definition of bullying and our child friendly anti-bullying policy. Thank you to the JLT for their valued contributions. As a result, our definition and policy have now been updated.
Child friendly anti-bullying policy
What is bullying?
In our school, this is what bullying means:
Bullying is where you hurt someone, physically or emotionally (including online), several times on purpose.
What might bullying look like?
If any of these things happen several (lots of) times, it is bullying.
- Hurting peoples’ feelings, for example, name calling, teasing, threatening, ignoring, leaving people out or spreading rumours
- Hurting peoples’ bodies, for example, hitting, punching or kicking
This could be in person or online (cyber bullying) and could be because of someone’s race, disability, gender, appearance, age or any other protected characteristic.
What could you do if you are being bullied?
Start
Telling
Other
People
Who could you tell?
- Miss Hague, Miss Pallister, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Beesley or Mr Roundtree (they are child protection staff)
- Any other members of staff
- Friends
- Someone in your family
- A trusted adult
- Childline (0800 1111)
- Write a worry slip and put it in your classroom Voice Box or the whole school worry box
- Email stayingsafe@spherefederation.org
Our views on bullying
STOP bullying – bullying is wrong! We’re a happy and healthy school.
Adjective day 2020
We had a fabulous Adjective Day today. It was a bit different having to stay in our bubbles and not being about to parade in and out of every classroom but we still had a great time. We have lots of examples of adjectives on our word walls now. We even managed a distanced rendition of our adjective song.
Adjectives can tell you more,
About a noun and that’s for sure,
Ad-jec-tives!
Healthy eating assemblies
The whole federation joined together to take part in an assembly about healthy eating last week. It was very exciting to see the other classes in the other schools! We had these booked in for Health Week last summer, which had to be cancelled.
The Leeds Health and Wellbeing Team delivered the assembly where we learnt all sorts of interesting things about keeping healthy and finished off with an interactive quiz. 
Active playtimes – keeping happy and healthy
We have got some new equipment to help children keep active and have fun at playtimes. The stacking cups, target net, balance beams and hoops are all very popular and great fun 😀
Living and learning : Odd Socks Day (anti-bullying week)
We all got into the spirit of things today and came to school in odd socks. The message from the Anti-Bullying Alliance is all about encouraging people to express themselves and celebrate their individuality. We watched the Odd Socks day virtual assembly too.
Living and Learning : being the same and being different
We have been talking about how we are the same and how we are different. It can be about how we look, what we like and how we feel. It’s important to celebrate our similarities and differences.
Children in Need in KS1
Thank you to everyone that brought a donation into school today. The total will be announced next week.
To celebrate Children in Need in Years 1 and 2 we kept active all day. We watched the end of Joe Wick’s 24 hour exercise challenge. The children were amazed to hear that he raised over £1,500,000 exercising for 24 hours.
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Joe Wicks in 1KN
1KN certificate celebration
Another great week in 1KN. Our certificates this week go to…
For great learning…
Parker – You have made so much progress in reading and it is a pleasure to listen to you read books fluently. Well done.
For sport and physical activity…
Alex – Great wake up shake up dancing every day. You always give it 100%.
For living and learning…
Shay – You have been resilient this week. You are trying your best to finish a piece of work even when you find it difficult. Well done!
Celebration certificates 1,2V
We have had another busy week! Our certificates this week go to…
For great learning…
Sophia – For great work in maths. You have concentrated well and shared your ideas.
For sport and physical activity…
Edward – For determination in PE – trying to beat your skipping personal best.
For living and learning…
Tilly – For always being helpful and kind.
Our new class reward system is going down well too. For making good choices throughout the day, children can write their name on a raffle ticket (some children have got 8 tickets in this week). On a Friday, 5 winners will be drawn out and can choose a prize from the Raffle Reward box.