GIFT Team delivering their Advent collective worship to Year 1.
Category: Pupil Voice
Year 6: Peer Mediation
Year 6 held an assembly to launch the ‘Peer Mediation’ scheme, after completing their training the Year 6’s then explained in assembly how the scheme would work. Peer Mediation is a way of helping and supporting children to finding a resolution to any disagreements or conflict, the children are encouraged to explain their point of view and feelings about a situation that has arisen. The ‘Peer Mediators’ will then help the children to find a resolution that is fair for all.
Eco-friendly bird feeders
Over the past few weeks the Eco Club have researched eco-friendly bird feeders and then made them by reusing rubbish. This week they filled them up with seeds and found suitable places in the school garden. We hope to see new wildlife in our garden soon.
School Council
A big well done to our school council who successfully organised and hosted this week’s Book Quiz. They did an incredible job at creating questions, speaking to individual houses at meetings, working together as a team and hosting on the day. They have all worked very hard this term, focusing on improving and prompting reading for pleasure, by gathering the views of their classes and coming up with new and exciting ways we can build on the love of books we already have at our school. Our younger members from Year 2 also launched a KS1 Book Review Competition this week and will be selecting winners at the end of next week when more fantastic books can be won! 
KS2 House Book Quiz
Our 4 houses at St. Mary’s battled it out to become the Book Quiz champions yesterday afternoon. It was excellent to see the pupils’ fantastic knowledge of books, characters, titles and authors so a big well done to everyone who took part. The competition was very close and in the end, all came down to a tie-breaker question between 2 of the teams. With their brilliant book knowledge and great teamwork skills, Arrowsmith pipped Ward at the post and became this year’s winners. Congratulations Arrowsmith!
Eco Club Upcycling
The Eco Club have been trying to improve the school garden. Over the past few weeks they have up-cycled old pencils, pens and bottles to make bird feeders. These will then be placed in the school garden to encourage wildlife.
Eco Team Recycling
The Eco Team have been working hard to help the school become more efficient when recycling. They have made signs for the bins so it is clear what can be recycled. Also, they have volunteered to monitor the bins and help children make the right decision when disposing of their rubbish.
Gift and Caritas Training
On Wednesday, our Gift team participated in a training session, with the Gift teams from St Thomas More and St John Fisher. This session was a great opportunity to meet up with and share ideas with the team members from the different schools. The children learnt some more about their role and responsibilities and looked at creating an action plan looking ahead into the rest of the school year. It was good to listen to different ideas and the children came up with a super action plan, with lots of different ways to support our pupils in their prayer and worship.
Our thanks to Mrs Moran, Mr Tanti (St John Fisher) and Mrs Hague (St Thomas More) for supporting the children with this initiative.
