On Friday 19 March, William Byrd celebrated Red Nose Day by dressing up in red. The whole school got involved in various fun activities throughout the day. Children had been preparing their jokes all week for the class Joke Competition and they certainly did a fantastic job of spreading laughter and smiles in the classrooms!
We look forward to sharing how much we raised with you soon. Thank you for all your contributions and continuous support.
We have been supporting children’s return to school through our well-planned ‘Reintroduce and Reconnect’ PSHE curriculum. The activities we have taken part in are to help reignite our flame of learning through re-establishing friendships and connections with staff and others. Each day has begun with a carefully planned lesson based on the NHS 5 steps to mental wellbeing:
To show connectedness across school and across year groups we have created a number of displays. We have created a whole school paper chain with each child sharing something they learnt or were proud of during lockdown. We have also created a paper hand chain which shows connectedness between different year groups. On the paper hands we wrote what we missed about being apart and what we like most about being together again. Each class has made a hopes and dreams 3D display to show what the children would like to achieve now they are back in school.
Here is a small selection of our displays across the school.
World Book Day (Thursday 4 March) was a little different this year as many of us celebrated the day at home.
Children took part in various fun World Book Day activities including; taking part in our Bake-a-Story competition, creating a fun themed book corner, dressing up in their favourite book character and playing lots of fun games.
A big well done to everyone for their amazing efforts!
Over the past few months we received so many photographs of children learning from home and showing us their fantastic work. Well done to all our children for their resilience, dedication and hard work. We are all very proud of you! Here are some examples of amazing work from our children.
