Playground Buddy training has begun!

Today, children from Key Stage 2 who applied to be a Playground Buddy started their training.
We have over 20 children who want to help other people, which is really fantastic.

The children started by learning how to greet each other politely and practiced with people they didn't know from other classes.  Then it was time to learn our special song:

We're the playground buddies
And we're here to help you play (yay)
With Shirley Warren caps on
To help you all the way (yay)

Our games are old and new (true)
We can help you (true)

We're the Shirley Warren buddies
here to help today (YAY!)

We are going to sing it to the school in our final presentation assembly.

Finally, the playground buddies also learnt a new game called "Riverbank"
then went out to introduce it to KS2.

They were so excited about it. I'm sure it will be just as exciting for Key Stage 1 next week.

Mrs Williams

Harvest Festival at Shirley Warren

This week our whole school has been collecting food for Basics Bank, which is run by Southampton City Mission and Matt came in to lead an assembly for KS1 and one for KS2. 

We had a lot of fun with a visual story Matt told us from the Bible about the farmer planting the seed in different kinds of ground. Some of it landed on rocky ground and didn't grow.

Other seeds did a little bit better. But the best seeds in the good ground produced a good crop. 

Matt told us that when we give to others we are like the seed planted in good soil. The funniest bit was when Miss Lott dressed up as a crow and "ate" some of the seeds.

We are glad to be a generous school and hope our donations will help many families in the city who don't have enough food.

Our Super Reading Corner!

Today 1L enjoyed having a lovely reading time in our new, super reading corner.

It was great to watch children get excited and enthusiastic about reading books.

They read brilliant and shared books nicely.

Keep it up 1L and I am really glad you like the new corner :)

4T Internet Safety Day

Yesterday was Internet Safety Day and in Year 4T we were focusing on how to show kindness when online.

First, it was quiz time to see how internet-smart we were...

                                    

 




Then we thought about the qualities that make a good friend and how someone can show those qualities when they are online.
We encouraged each other by sharing with everyone in the class different qualities that make each of us great friends. Then we thought about how we can show those qualities when we are online.

Here are some of the things we thought:

 

Here are a few of our tips: 

- A good friend online is someone who doesn't pass on any pictures or videos that you don't like and always asks their permission first. 

- A good friend online always says kind and encouraging things.

-A good friend online includes friends in their games, rather than leaving someone out.