Let all that you do, be done in love. (1 Corinthians 16:14)

September 2024

We have begun the year by thinking about ways to support our mental wellbeing. We have decided to acknowledge World Mental Health day on Thursday 10th October by wearing yellow and carrying out activities to help identify ways to support our mental health. We have even suggested learning outdoors for part of the day as getting out in the fresh air usually does wonders for our mental wellbeing!

We have also decided that we will set up and promote Wellbeing Wednesday! On the last Wednesday of each half term, we will encourage wellbeing activities at the end of the day in our classrooms and around school. Wellbeing Wednesdays will be focused on the 5 areas of wellbeing:

World Mental Health Day photos - Thursday 10th October 2024

We had such a great day raising awareness of mental health and carrying out activities to promote ways to keep our minds healthy. Getting outdoors is one great way to ensure great mental health so we carried out some mindfulness activities (like planting bulbs in our outdoor areas) outside as well as taking some of our learning outside at various points of the day!

November 2024

As part of Anti-Bullying week, School Council wanted to help raise awareness of just how important it is to be unique by joining in with odd socks day on Tuesday 12th November. This helped us to show how important it is to express ourselves and be truly proud of who we are, without fear of judgement from others. 

Break the rules day - Summer 2025

School Council planned a 'break the rules' day in order to raise funds for our school. We set rules that children were allowed to break, and there was a fee of 50p for each rule broken. We had such a fun day, and Mrs Faryniarz allowed us to rebel even more by buying us hair spray and temporary tattoos that we could get applied at breaktime. We raised an incredible £350, which will hugely benefit all of our children. Thank you to all parents who supported this event with your generosity.

 

School Council elections - Summer 2025

We said thank you and goodbye to our fantastic School Council members from this year. We have learned about democracy as part of our work on British Values and each year, we put this into action by voting for who we would like to represent our classes on the School Council for the next academic year. Here we are with our voting slips and ballot box! We found out who our new School Councillors for next year were during an assembly. Watch this space... 

 

School Council 2023-2024:

The school council children have been busy making signs for the new equipment rota - Ruby's idea - to make it  fairer in case of wet play. The signs change daily when we're out on the playground. This means that classes don't miss out on their day on the equipment if it's raining on the day of their turn.

This half term, the school  are going to focus on how to raise money for Comic Relief and the school.

 

February 2024

School Council recently looked through our RE floor books to get a sense of the other religions we have been learning about in our classes. Each pair talked us through their class' floor book and explained what they have been learning about.

March 2024

This month, we have thought about ways we could raise money for our school including bake sales and 'break the rules day'. 

April 2024

We have prioritised wellbeing this month and thought about ways we can further improve the wellbeing of all at St. Mary's. We came up with the following ideas:

• Take part in more mindfulness and meditation activities in classand during our Worship sessions
• Have a calming / mindfulness session at the end of the day before hometime
• Have time to reflect at the end of a day to voice worries or concerns and to help each other through them
• Develop our playground calm zone, introducing things such as colouring, a book box and loom band making

May 2024

We got together and reflected on the changes made to our curriculum and what we have learned about so far this year. We agreed that having our knowledge organisers have really helped us to remember key facts and this helps us to bring our knowledge together at the end of a unit by creating a mind-map of information. We looked through our class' floorbooks and showed one another what we have learned.