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.
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. 
We are Times Table Rockstars!
Wow!
Check out these stats from our Times Table Rockstars tournament…
Currently, 65% of children across Y3,4 have accessed Times Table Rockstars in the last 7 days! This is brilliant and will definitely help our times table recall.
Keep it up!
Living and Learning: Anti-bullying Week
Here are some fun photos from the start of Anti-Bullying Week. The children wore ‘Odd Socks’ to show how we can celebrate our differences but all be part of the same school community. Each and every one of us wore different Odd Socks and it was a great way of sharing and showing how we are all unique.
Times Tables Rockstars Tournament
We’re a couple of days into our weekly Times Tables Rockstars tournament. Here’s the results so far…
So, Mrs Allaway’s maths group are currently in the lead in the group tournament. However, Year 3 are beating Year 4 at the moment.
In the past seven days, 50% of the children in Y3,4 have been on Times Table Rockstars. We’d love this figure to be 100% so, if you haven’t been on yet, give it a go.
Keep it up everyone!
If you don’t know your username and password, email your class teacher.
3,4O – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
3,4E – emmamccormick@ spherefederation.org
3,4N – nicolawadsworth@spherefederation.org
Living and Learning: I know we are all the same and we are all different
Our learning and learning objective this week:
I accept that my friends and I might have different opinions.
We watched a short clip about working together and came up with a recipe for success:
- Problem solving words
and phrases - Think about your own
experiences of the
problem solving activity - What qualities are
important? - How might someone
express their views and
opinions successfully
when working as a team?
Here is a photo that summarises our discussions:
Times Table Rockstars
Times Tables Rock Stars is an app and website that we use in school to quicken the recall of tables facts. It’s something that you can use at home, too – your child has their own username and password. (If you don’t have these, or you have any questions, email your child’s class teacher.) Each game is short so you don’t need lots of time. ‘Garage’ is where you’ll find tables set by us whilst ‘Soundcheck’ includes all facts up to 12 x 12.
We’ve just signed up to Numbots, too. Perhaps more suited to younger children or children who need a bit of extra support with the basics, this is a great app and website for practising addition and subtraction facts. Your child can use it at home too – they login using the same details they use for Times Tables Rock Stars. There are 15 different games, each with a different focus. Topics covered include doubles and number bonds to 10, 20 and 100.
3,4O: History
Today, we spent our afternoon being historians – in fact, we were being archaeologists.
We had to find the pictures of artefacts from the time of Ancient Greece and predict what we thought they were used for.
Then, we found out – it turns out, our predictions were extremely accurate!
3,4O: Library
We love going to the library every Wednesday to choose a new book and spend a bit of time relaxing and reading. Here’s a few pictures from our session today (we all gave our consent to being photographed and displaying it on the website – ask your child why this is important).
Enjoying reading…
Some more of us enjoying reading…
Searching for a new book…
‘Dipping into’ a picture for a nice change…
Desperately searching for a book about Ancient Greece…
We keep these books in school and ‘dip in’ to them as often as we can.
Ask your child what book they chose and why they chose it.
How do we know so much about the Ancient Greeks?
Today we have asked and answered questions about the Ancient Greeks. We were able to suggest what different artefacts were used for and what this tells us about life in Ancient Greece.
