Following the recent media coverage about racist comments made towards members of the England football team, Year 5 pulled away from our usual timetable to discuss our thoughts, feelings and opinions on racism and to learn more about what we can do as individuals to help make a change. I Read more…
Yesterday, our lesson started with discussions about the vandalism of the Marcus Rashford mural in Manchester and the disgraceful racist abuse Rashford, Saka and Sancho have received online after England’s defeat. We learnt about what racism is and how we can all play a part to educate others, and ourselves Read more…
This week we have been celebrating England coming second in the Euros, which was a massive achievement. They played so hard and would have been under extreme pressure. Unfortunately some of the players received some racist abuse for missing the penalties. We looked at how everyone is unique and has Read more…
Today, Year One have been learning all about embracing our differences. We discussed what makes us different, such as our hair colour, likes/dislikes, height, skin colour, and the places our families come from, and how we should celebrate this as it is what makes us unique. We discussed recent events Read more…
In RE we have been looking at how we need to respect and look after everyone. After a discussion we went outside then used chalk to draw around each other. We then added words to explain how we are all unique and valuable. We discussed how we are unique as Read more…
Today St Luke’s celebrated Red Nose Day. Children came to School in their own clothes with crazy hair to raise money for Comic Relief. They all looked fantastic. The children also completed Red Nose Day activities and had some well-being time in class, focussing on laughter. Thank you to everyone Read more…
Maple are excited to be taking part in the Linking Schools project, this year will be a little different but it will be just as fun! Instead of meeting in person we had a Zoom call with our linking class at All Saints Primary School in Rochdale. We did lots Read more…
This week is anti- bullying week. Throughout the week, classes have had an anti-bullying assembly, discussed this year’s theme ‘United against bullying’ and taken part in activities and discussions about bullying. Today we came to school wearing odd socks to celebrate our differences.
This week, the whole school have been helping to raise money for Children In Need. Each class have been completing the ‘Act Your Age’ challenge in their PE lessons with our PE coach Mr Tomkins, and today came to school in their pyjamas. Mr Tomkins is amazed at how well Read more…
Today we were lucky enough to be joined by Keziah from the Anne Frank Trust, who delivered and informative and inspiring lesson via MS Teams. The he lesson looked at how we can use the story of Anne Frank to discover what stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination mean, what they Read more…