Category: Topaz Class

🗣Speak out. Stay safe.📣

On Monday, the whole school took part in a special assembly from the NSPCC. We learnt that all children have the right to speak out and be heard, be safe and be listened to.

We learnt that all of us have worries, sometimes big and sometimes small. We learnt that our emotions are like a giant bag: the more worries we have, the more we fill the bag. This then helped us to understand why it is important to speak out when we are feeling worried or unsafe. Each time we speak about our worries, we remove it from our bag!

We realised that there are many people we can speak to like our parents, a trusted adult (over 18years), a teacher or member of staff, another family member, the police or even Childline.

Finally, we learnt that Childline is a number that is always there for us. 08001111 is a number, not to be forgotten!

🚚🦺Crucial Crewe🚓🛤

Year 5&6 had a super trip to Crewe Alex yesterday for Crucial Crewe.

We learnt sooooo much!

Did you know that a 44 tonne lorry takes nearly a football pitch to stop when it’s doing only 30mph? Did you know that you should never undertake a lorry as they can’t see you and have so many blind spots. Thanks to Gist, we remembered our green cross code: STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN!

Cheshire Police taught us all about online safety. Did you know that to use Snapchat you should be 13 years old? We learnt that parents and carers should check our devices every night to keep us safe and that passwords are for both our parents and us.

The Canal & River Trust were our next stop and we learnt to not drop litter, to never swim in the canal, to look at wildlife from a distance and be very careful around locks. The most important thing we learnt was to Stay Away From the Edge!

Next up was electrical safety. We learnt what the main hazard signs mean, to make sure there are no overhead cables where we fly kites or go fishing, to never overload plugs or use sockets that have burn marks or are broken. We also learnt that if we find any power outages or problems to call 105 immediately.

At the drugs and alcohol station, we learnt that there are good and bad drugs and that it is almost impossible to tell which is which. We learnt to say no if someone offers us any drugs and that it is best to say “I’m about to be picked up by my parents” if you find yourself in an awkward situation. We learnt that the legal age to drink alcohol in the UK is 16 or 17years if you are with a parent and having a meal. We also compared a healthy liver with one from an alcoholic- it was huge and disgusting!

Finally, we visited The British Transport Police. We found out that trains are the safest mode of transport, with only 5-6 crashes occurring over the next 80 years! Wow! However, we also learnt that most people are hurt on train tracks than anywhere else. That’s because trains travel up to 125mph and weigh the same as 40 elephants. That means that it would take 20 football pitches for a train to stop if it needed to in an emergency. That’s why at least 1 person is killed on train tracks every single day. We learnt that this is the reason that it is against the law to walk on railway tracks and that you can get £1000 fine, 2 years in prison and a criminal record (from as young as 10 years of age). So…. STAY AWAY FROM RAILWAY TRACKS!

Lastly, we learnt that the safest place to stand at a station is BEHIND THE YELLOW LINE.

Crucial Crewe taught us so many ways to stay safe. We want to say a HUGE thank you to all the services that were there and we hope that one day we can help others to stay safe to!

🧗🧩🧳PGL 2021🏹🗺🚣‍♀️

On Monday 20th September, 43 Year 5&6 pupils and 4 members of staff packed their suitcases, took their lateral flow tests and piled onto the waiting coach. It was time for PGL 2021!

Ellesmere park was our first stop of the day, an ideal place to run off some of our excitement and start having fun!

At around 3pm, we arrived at Boreatton Park, the home of PGL. Gasps and wows echoed around the bus as everyone realised that this was not just any trip- it was going to be an AMAZING one!

Josh or Jemima (as we later called him), our Rookie for the week, met us on arrival and helped us to settle into our cabins straight away. “Wow! This is a 5 star hotel!” pretty much sums them up! 😉

Throughout the week, we took part in so many wonderful activities. Zip-wire, Trapese, Giant Swing, Kayaking, Jacobs Ladder, Challenge Course, Orienteering, Climbing, Archery, Sensory Trail, Abseiling, Campfire, Ambush, Puzzle Wood…. you name it, we did it!

Throughout the week we all tried really hard to work as a team:looking for opportunities to help and support each other and to have empathy for others and their feelings. We realised that everyone gets scared of something and that that is ok! We learnt that the most important thing is to trust in those around us and to take the risk in order to have the best experience and the most fun!

Each evening, Mrs Huntbach, Mrs Kyle, Miss Williams-Day and Mrs Booth gave out special superstar certificates from the day. These were some of the most special times of the trip, allowing us all time to reflect together and feel proud of what we have achieved that day.

We had the BEST time at PGL and made brilliant memories!

🟢🔵TEAM CAPTAINS 🔴🟡

A few weeks ago, the Year 6 pupils wrote and delivered their own speeches to the rest of their team stating why they should be chosen to be a Team Captain, Sports Captain or Recycling Officer.

They explained what qualities they had and how these would help their team to be successful this year.

After listening to the speeches, every team member (from Reception to Year 5) had the really hard task of choosing which role suited which Year 6. Each team used democratic votes to decide who would get to wear which shiny, new badge! 🛡

Thank you to all the members of staff who got stuck in and supported their teams beautifully! We can’t wait to see all the teamwork that’s going to go on this year!

  • Congratulations green team!
  • Smiling green team
  • Our red team leaders
  • Positive and proactive yellow team!

❤️ Emotional Coaching Ambassadors ❤️

Today we were very excited to welcome a special visitor into school- Cole Ashley from Achievement For All. He worked with two groups of Year 5&6 pupils throughout the day and taught them all about the art of Emotional Coaching. They all conducted themselves brilliantly and they can’t wait to start using their skills and knowledge to help all our children to become more emotionally literate across the school! Watch this space…