We look to the Diocese for guidance on our journey and would like to encourage you to read the Church of England vision 2026 document. HERE
We are a Fair Trade School.
We were awarded our Fair Award Award in summer 2021. To gain our award, we had to hold Fair Trade tuck shops, celebrate Fair Trade fortnight and raise awareness of Fair Trade products that are available in shops. We talk about Fair Trade in lots of our lessons in school from English to geography to design technology.
Fair Trade Fortnight 2022
We are going for our Fair Active Award!
This year our focus is on Fair Trade and the impact of extreme weather/climate change on Fair Trade farmers. We have made Haikus, special Japanese poems, to exhibit in the Youth Fair Trade Conference. We are also working with a local Fair Trade representative to share our work following the two weeks.
WaterAid – Clean Water, Decent Toilets and Good Hygiene | WaterAid UK
Our very youngest children from Honey bees and Discovery are ambassadors supporting the vital work which the charity WaterAid champions. During the year, the children have raised money through our weekly ‘Wednesday’s Wish for WaterAid.’ This is where we invite our whole school community to pop in some loose change into our wishing well and make a wish for a better future for those people the charity supports. We held a ‘Bounce for WaterAid.’ This was such a fun event which our PTFA supported through the generous donation of a bouncy castle for the day. The children loved having fun, bouncing and tiring themselves out for a donation to our charity. Most recently in December 2021, we raised money following our wonderful EYFS and KS1 ‘Wriggly Nativity.’
We look forward to continuing to work with WaterAid speakers via Zoom; creating a strong partnership with our church WaterAid ambassador and continuing our fight for clean water.
For 1 in 9 children around the world, it’s normal to have to collect water from a muddy pond, and normal to miss lessons because they are sick from drinking it.
Christian Aid Café
Enterprise class loved hosting a café to raise money for Christian Aid. The parents loved coming to school to taste our delicious pizzas. We raised £32.50 in donations.
UNICEF.
Atlantis Class support the charity of UNICEF and have been thinking about what they could do to help the children of Ukraine. We decided that we would have a sunflower stall at the end of each day on the playground. We invited families to donate £1 and buy a sunflower seed that we had planted. The children raised £73 for this wonderful charity and we are so grateful to all those who donated. You will make a difference. Thank you.
Injustice Board
Enterprise class have been researching the work that Christian aid do to fight against the injustice happening in the world. We have been exploring the big question, “How can we help to fight this injustice too?” This display is up in our classroom to remind us of the work the Christian Aid do and what we can do to help.
World Wise Wednesday
Every Wednesday we have the opportunity to look at events in the news from around the world.
As classes, we investigate a key question surrounding one news headline from the week. We are encouraged to share what we think with our friends and challenge the views of others in a respectful and mature way. Our thoughts are shared with parents on the weekly newsletter.
Worldwide Awareness – Australian Crisis January 2020
After being inspired by the Australian bushfire story in Picture News, some of our children along with the School Council have decided to raise money to help the animals who have been injured. Look out for further information on Class Dojo about their fundraising event.