Our digital leaders have been working hard across the 1st half term, having weekly meetings and completing weekly challenges. All of the digital leaders have created their own introduction videos for their display board to explain who they are and why they wanted to be a digital leader. Their second task was to check that […]
Tag Archives: Democracy
Reflections of the School Council
This year’s School Councillors have been fantastic! They have been so hardworking and reliable. The Councillors have listened to their classes about ideas for school and have spent a lot of time making things happen, such as Red Nose Day, the Parking Charter and discussions about the cloakrooms. Well done to all of you! Here […]
A busy half term
We have reached the end of the first half term of the school year. What a busy time we have had. On Thursday evening, the governing body met for their Autumn term meeting. We were able to welcome our new parent governor, Mr Cooper, and we were able to discuss the start we have […]
Goodbye, Y6
Every year, at this time, we wonder at how quickly the school year passes. For those of us who work in the school, this is a regular occurrence. For our children it can be both an exciting and a difficult time. Some children look forward to the adventure of a new class whilst others worry […]
Governors’ Learning Walk – British Values
Another interesting afternoon as a Governor of Unsworth Primary School. Mr Cohen, Mr Howarth and I spent the afternoon carrying out a Learning Walk looking at how the school promotes British Values. You can learn more about what this means by visiting the SMSC section of the website. We met with Mrs Ali first and […]
The kindness boomerang
At the end of our whole school assembly on Monday morning we held a moment of quiet reflection whilst we listened to ‘He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.’ The theme for our assemblies was ‘contributing to the lives of others through kindness.’ I spoke to the children briefly about the fact that terrible things had […]
What is democracy?
To read a tweet that talked about one of our five year olds spending Friday tea time explaining democracy was the icing on the cake this week! That happened because of the success of our School Council election and our assembly theme of ‘democracy’. It also happened because our children are thinkers and love to […]
Our Election Movie Experience
Our election was a great success in school and the children got to experience what the process is like. If you click the link below you can watch a short movie trailer we have made to try and show what our election was like, enjoy! Let us know what you think. Election […]
Democracy in action
During this week we taught our children about two national events, one historic and one current. On Tuesday morning we held an assembly to tell the children about VE Day, which took place 70 years ago this week. The school watched some footage of Churchill’s speech announcing the end of the war and people celebrating […]
Our Magna Carta
As ‘election fever’ hits the country with the upcoming General Election, we took the opportunity this week to ask the question ‘What is democracy?’ in our assemblies. Over the Easter break we have had a new assembly board put up in a prominent place at the front of the hall. We did this to allow […]