Category: School of Sanctuary

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Community as a Superpower!

This year, the ‘Power of Community’ was the refugee Week theme. Together we are very strong, creative and make things happen.

We assembled in marquee on the field and we spilt into four mixed aged groups. Each group was responsible for making each bird; the tern, the swift, the whooper swan and the red kite.

Each child had their very own hand-held bird which they decorated. 

We also created our own nest by weaving ripstop ribbons around willow.

In the afternoon, we took our individual birds on a journey ‘around the world’ through the obstacle course depicting the ice, sea, wind and even a volcano!  We thought carefully about all of the things that we noticed about our journey.

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At the end of the day, we gently carried our large birds to meet each other and ‘perch’ on the Kite’s nest.  This represented the Kite offering Sanctuary to the migrants for as long as they need it.

We were very grateful to Larry and Ciara and their team of willing volunteers that enabled us to be strong, creative and to make wonderful things happen!

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Council Meeting

  • We were joined by John Meredith in today’s Worship Council Meetinbg to discuss Expressive Art in RVE. Some of the ideas discussed were about how we could bring more Expressive Arts into RVE.  Mr Meredith showed us some of his artwork and we thought we could adopt something similar by producing collages depicting each of our values. We also discussed:
  • Prayer species in our school / Worship Displays
  • Mirrors in the class room
  • Target display boards asking ‘how are we special’
  • Word Art for each value
  • Our creation artwork based on Dai Woolridge Spoken Word.
  • Making a labyrinth
  • Easter Assembly – rehearsals next week in JF’s room

Easter Competition

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RVE - John Meredith - Big Question

Mr Meredith visited us this morning and shared a lovely story called ‘Tom the Lion’. This story taught us about how to be a kind friend, how to use and share our helping hands and what makes a good friend. Mr Meredith was very impressed with how well we listen to one another and help each other out throughout the day.

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A Visit from John Meredith

This morning Mr Meredith visited our class to share a lovely story of learning, friendship and kindness. We discussed what we enjoyed learning, how we can can be kind and what makes a good friend.

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Poetry

Today it was our turn to work with Cheryl. We thought about who we are, what makes us us. Then we explored cinquain poems and the rules around them. We worked together to write a class cinquain about Refuge.

Finally we explored the idea of sanctuary…how we offer it when someone needs refuge.

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Aharsi: The Bengal Tiger

We celebrated International Mother Tongue Day by joining other schools in Powys for a Live event retelling the story of ‘Aharsi: The Bengal Tiger’. Pupils enjoyed listening and joining in with the story and developing their language skills. They listened carefully and were able to answer lots of questions about the story. Da iawn Pawb!

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Poetry Residence

We have been really fortunate to work with poet, Cheryl Moskowitz. (http://www.cherylmoskowitz.com/published-works.html)

Cheryl is a leading practitioner in the field of writing and well-being and has been working in schools for 30+ years, supporting teachers and enabling children to explore the magic of words and poetry.

Cheryl worked with us to write a cinquain about places that we find are places of sanctuary (noddfa)

Cheryl is also helping us to produce a Poetry “Zine”.

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Poet in Residence

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of working with poet Cheryl. We thought about ‘Sanctuary’ and what that means to both humans and animals. We then went on to thought shower chosen animals, from ladybirds to wolves. Cheryl then went on to put our ideas into a wonderful poem, ‘Not that Different From You and Me.’

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Show Racism the Red Card

Here are some of the Year 2 entries for the National Red Card Health & Well-being Competition. All of the children have worked really hard on their entries. Pob lwc Pawb!