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We had an amazing visit from the Royal National Lifeboat Association (RNLI) member Tomothy. He showed us all his amazing equipment and talked to us about what being an RNLI member entails. We were all surprised, and impressed, that all RNLI lifeboat crew are volunteers! It was an amazing experience and a privilege to get to meet one of our community heroes in person. At the end the children got to try on Tomothy's special equipment and clothing.
The Christmas performance was a massive success. The children all did an amazing job, not only on the day, but also during all the rehearsals we did over the previous few weeks. We hope everyone enjoyed the show!
The Christmas party was a huge success. We ate, we played party games and danced, we did Christmas activities, we watched Christmassy films and there was enough food to feed the whole school (we will have a second party/buffet this week). But the highlight was definitely playing hide and seek as we had the whole school to ourselves!
Musical statues
Party food
Hide and seek in an empty school!
Seeking:
Film time
How do we schedule our day
What cooler than being cool? Ice cold! (topic science)
Friday 9th December 2.30pm
What super powers we have!
Paper plane investigation!
Last week Mr Budge led an assembly to explore the theme of anti-bullying following the national anti-bullying week in late November. Read more about anti-bullying here.
The focus for this year's anti-bullying campaign is 'Reach Out'. This promotes the idea of challenging unkind behaviours by reaching out to someone. You can watch a video about this here. In school, we want you to reach out to an adult if you notice something that you think might be bullying. You can talk to your teacher or TA, Miss Elliot, Mrs Hughes, Mrs Beech, Mr Budge, Mrs Brown...anyone! There is always someone who will want to help. You could use the school worry button to report your worry.
At RAPS we know that being kind is a wonderful way to make ourselves and others feel happy and safe. As a school community we always aim to learn and play with respect and care for one another.
We learn about the British Values. Part of this includes exploring the values of mutual respect, individual liberty and tolerance. We also learn about our core values of diversity and collaboration to help us show kindness. We also develop our understanding of these themes through our termly PSHE lessons and focused assemblies that relate to this.
With this in mind, let's all continue to act with kindness to spread positivity every day.
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Our Christmas party will be on the 9th of December at 9am and our Christmas performance will be at 2.30pm on the same day.
A list of suggested items will be on the bulletin board. If you could write your name next to the item you will bring, or add an item on to the list, it would be much appreciated: this way we won't end up with 30 multipacks of Iced Gems :)
We are well underway with the superhero part of 'Our Heroes' topic. Previously, we made a post about the 'Love to Learn' books. The post is copied below. The main points are:
Love to learn book should be brought in on Monday 5th December.
The home-made superhero costumes should be worn to school on Tuesday 6th December.
Love to Learn: Design and make a Superhero costume
This is your child’s ‘Love to Learn’ book. This is a project book where you will be set tasks and you can complete them in the book, however you like with drawings, photos, writing etc and can take up as many pages as you like. Please get as creative as possible!
Our first ‘Love to Learn’ task this term will be designing and making our very own Superhero costume. As we have been learning about real life heroes and had some superhero fun, we would love to design the character name, superpowers and labelled design in this book. We would love for you to then make this costume with homemade materials. The more out there the better (we would love to see some pants and tight combos). In the past we have had plastic boy who saves the ocean, smile girl who makes all her friends happy and many more.
You can display this in any way you want with photos, drawings, art work, captions, labels, cut outs from magazines etc. Please let this be your child’s ideas and work but please feel free to help them to present this. Please return completed Love to learn book by Monday 5th December.
We would love you to then wear the home-made superhero costumes to school on Tuesday 6th December for our fun-filled Superhero day.