P4C

Diversity Day Assembly

This afternoon we enjoyed an assembly that celebrated some of the work classes completed on Diversity Day. Class Five explained the Windrush Generation after reading ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin. They considered the range of emotions that may have been felt on the journey to England and how the new arrivals to the country settled. Their performance and discussions were excellent and they made links to some of our school values; resilience, respect and resourcefulness.

Reception then performed a verse from the poem ‘I Rise’. We were very proud of how confident the children were reciting the poem with actions in front of the whole school.

Our assembly was completed by a pupil in Y6, who performed her own original poem, based on ‘I Rise’. Her thought-provoking words reminded people that they can achieve anything if they put their mind to it.

Diversity Day assembly

The class were fantastic this afternoon as they explained their Diversity Day work!
The performance was brilliant!

Diversity Day

Today for Diversity Day we talked about “Black History Month”. We discussed how things were in the past and how they have changed today. We looked at important people who made a change such as Martin Luther King and people to be celebrated, like Usain Bolt. We read the poem and thought about how we can ‘rise above’ the challenges we might face.

Levi Tafari

We were very lucky to be visited by Levi Tafari and Jenny from LLP today. Our KS2 children enjoyed a fantastic assembly listening to a live poetry performance by Levi and discussions about diversity, inclusion and equality. Y6 then enjoyed a poetry workshop.

Diversity Day

During Diversity Day class 3 enjoyed reading ‘Two Monsters’ written by David McKee. The book is about two monsters who live on either side of a mountain. Sometimes they talk through the hole in the mountain, but they never see each other. One evening, they get into a silly argument about whether day is departing or night is arriving, which escalates into a rock throwing fight, which eventually destroys the mountain, and enables the monsters to see each other’s point of view and live together as friends. We spoke about the themes of this book and identified themes such as differences, communcation and friendship.

As a class we discussed the similarites and differences of each other which then developed into our P4C question.

Is there ever a true right or wrong?

Marvellous Me – Nursery Diversity Day

In Nursery this week, we explored the story Marvellous Me! The children enjoyed thinking about what makes them special and unique. Using mirrors, they carefully looked at their features and created wonderful self-portraits. We finished by talking together about all the reasons why we are marvellous – from being kind friends to trying our best every day!

Diversity Day

Today year 6 have read a book called What do you do with a problem? We talked about different problems we may face and how they can affect us. We then had a discussion about the different ways we can deal with our problems and shared this with the school in our afternoon assembly.

Diversity Day/P4C

The children read the book ‘The Thing’ for Diversity Day, which included themes of discrimination, differences and friendship. Our P4C question was ‘Is it ever ok to hide who you truly are?’

Diversity Day Summer 2

As part of our Diversity Day celebrations, the children explored the beautiful story “All Are Welcome” by Alexandra Penfold. This heartwarming book helped us reflect on the importance of kindness, inclusion, and embracing differences. Inspired by the story’s message, the children discussed what it means to make everyone feel valued and accepted. They then wrote their own thoughtful sentences about how they can help others feel welcome in our school. Their words captured a deep sense of empathy and community, showing that even the youngest voices can share powerful messages of unity.

Diversity Day

The children used the book ‘The Day war came’ as a stimulus for our latest Diversity Day. The book was about the refugee experience. Our P4C question: ‘Is it ever ok to treat people differently?’

Diversity Day

For this term’s Diversity Day we read a book called ‘The Little Refugee’ about a boy who showed courage and resilience to help him survive. His hope, positivity and hard work helped him build a happy future for himself and his family. Class 6 talked about their thoughts on the book and we compiled a question ‘Do you need resilience to be patient?’ Where we put our thoughts to paper. We finished the day by celebrating our school and showing why we’re a school of sanctuary.

Diversity Day Summer One

This term our diversity day story is ‘Happy in our skin’ by Fran Manushkin, the story explores how people have their skin to keep their insides safe but also how we can happy within our skin, we discussed what makes us happy inside and wrote them down in to body pictures then we drew our faces.

Diversity Day

This diversity day Class 6 read the book ‘My Princess Boy.’ A story about acceptance and support. This real life story shows us that by talking about our fears of being different, we can set things in motion where we can show (and help others to show) understanding and support.

Compassion takes effort, focus and commitment and the more time we take to understand peoples differences, the better we can support them and help others to accept their differences. We talked about what diversity means to us and discussed our question, ‘do you need to be different to be loved?’

Diversity Day

This diversity day we looked at the book ‘The Cookie’. This is a story about friendship and food allergies. In our group discussion we spoke about food allergies, how they can affect people and how showing empathy in friendship can help people to feel comfortable.
We wrote letters to Harry the character who needed guidance in how to show empathy to his friend, Laurie with food allergies.

Diversity Day

During Diversity Day class 2 enjoyed reading Specs for Rex written by Yasmeen Ismail. Rex has new glasses and he HATES them! He does NOT want to wear them to school, and he tries to hide them in the strangest places! But it’s pretty tricky hiding specs that are so big, round and RED.

It’s funny how things turn out though, because Rex’s specs end up winning him a gold star and a new friend. Even better, he can SEE properly. A beautiful story about the positive effects of being, well, maybe just a little different.

We spoke about the word ‘Neurodiversity’ and what we thought this word meant. As a class we learnt that everyone’s brain works differently and that this word is used to describe the different thinking styles that affect how people communicate with the world around them.

Diversity Day

Class 5 used their book today as a stimulus to discuss how all families are different, but they are united by love. Our P4C question: Should love always look the same?

Diversity day.

Today we read a book called “We’re all wonders”. We discussed are differences and how we should treat people with respect and have empathy towards them and be kind.

Diversity Day

This diversity day class 6 read a book called ‘The Proudest Blue.’ About a girl who overcome negativity with the support of her family, friends and most of all, pride in herself. She went on to become an Olympic medalist showing us how we can overcome sadness and fear by celebrating who we are.

Can I Join Your Club?

Diversity Day

During Diversity Day we had the pleasure of ready ‘Can I Join Your Club?’ By John Kelly. Our book was about a Duck who wants to join a club. But he needs to be able to ROAR to join Lion Club, or TRUMPET to join Elephant Club. And all he can do is QUACK! What’s a Duck to do? Why, set up his own club of course… where everyone is welcome to join!

We discussed what it feels like to be left out and how including others can be the best solution to make everyone happy. 

Diversity Day

The class read ‘The Thing’ for Diversity Day, using it as a stimulus to discuss discrimination and differences. Our P4C question was ‘ Is it ever ok to hide who you truly are?

Liverpool Children’s Festival of Reading with Kathryn White

Class two had the pleasure of reading “Home For Grace” written by Kathryn White. We learnt it was about a woman who appears with a sleeping bag, living in a shop doorway, Jess is full of questions. Where is her home? Why did she leave? And what will happen when the snow comes?

Class two enjoyed being part of the zoom with the author and discussing the underlying themes of kindness, understanding and empathy.

Children’s Mental Health Week

Reception has celebrated Mental health week with lots of activities this week.

The children have created some fantastic faces and explained what emotions the faces are making.

The children have also created some kind notes to each other and put them in our kindness jar, the children then read the kind messages out to their friends.

Diversity Day Spring 1

This term for diversity day Reception explored the word “incredible” the class discussed what they think the word means, then listened to the story about how sometimes we might feel we want to be a different person when in fact we are just as incredible as we are. The children discussed what makes them incredible and they created some fantastic rainbows to celebrate their individuality.

Diversity Day

During diversity day Nursery discussed the different emotions we can feel. We looked at some images of emotions and spoke about what makes us feel happy, sad, angry etc. Nursery then used a variety of different resources to create faces with different emotions.

Diversity Day

In Diversity Day yesterday class 6 looked at a story called ‘What do you do with a problem?’ We talked about how our problems are not as bad as we think and if we confront them (usually by talking to someone about them) we can overcome them. We explored different problems we might come across and helped each other find ways to solve them.
We reflected privately on the story then shared our reflections before choosing our question of the day… ‘Do you always need to overcome your fears?’

Diversity Day

Today during Diversity Day we read the book ‘I am Enough’ and we have learnt that the book promotes self-acceptance, self-esteem, and empowerment. The book tells us about the importance of accepting ourselves as we are, celebrating our uniqueness, and recognising our worthiness. Our question today was ‘What does it mean to be enough?’ we enjoyed sharing our thoughts and ideas during our P4C.

Diversity Day

For Diversity Day we read the book “Night Shift” by Debi Gliori. The book shows us how depression and affect an individuals life and how they see things. The girl faces many difficulties however shows us there is an escape although it may not be easy.

Diversity day.

Rosa parks

Diversity Day

Today we found out about the life and events of Martin Luther King Jr. We shared the book ‘Martin’s Big Words’ and listened to some of his famous speech. We spoke about our dreams for ourselves and the world. In P4C we discussed the question – should you always treat everyone the same?

P4C Diversity Day Autumn 2

The children listened to the story ​”Unique and Wonderful” for diversity day today. The class had a discussion about what makes us unique and wonderful, the class talked about hair, eyes and our skin colour. The class then created some fantastic portraits and discussed why they are unique.

P4C

The class held a wonderful P4C session today using Floella Benjamin’s book ‘Coming to England’ as our stimulus. The children decided on the question ‘Is it ever ok to have an opinion if it means hurting somebody’s feelings?’

Diversity Day assembly

The children produced a great assembly speaking about the Windrush Generation, using the book ‘Coming to England’.

Diversity Day

Today we read the book “Pelé”. We learnt and spoke about making a difference, how to overcome barriers and be resilient in life.

Diversity Day Autumn 1

During diversity day Reception enjoyed a story called “You Are Brilliant”, we discussed what makes us brilliant and then we drew a self portrait of us and described why we are brilliant.

Diversity Day!

In class 3 we read ‘Two Monsters’ which is about two monsters who live on opposite sides of the mountain. They see different things and don’t communicate. We learnt how they stopped fighting and got along.

Diversity Day

In Diversity Day yesterday class 6 read the book ‘Can I Build Another Me?’ It’s a story about a boy who builds a robot version of himself. We discussed whether we should all be the same and why it’s important that we have differences so we can learn from each other. We then created pieces of work to show how we’re all different and how we like (and dislike) different things.

Diversity Day

Today we read the book “The Way Back Home”. We spoke about friendship and how to welcome new students in our school.

Diversity Day

For diversity day, class 5 read the book “my strong mind” by Niels Van Have. The story is about a young girl who faces her own personal challenges by teaching her brain to have a positive mental attitude.

Diversity Day Summer 2

Reception have celebrated Diversity Day this term by reading the story ‘All are Welcome’, this book explores welcoming everybody into the class no matter what, they have a space in our school. The children were read the story and they had a discussion of how we can welcome new children into our school, the children explained that they can be friendly and treat everyone the same. The children wrote messages of how they can be welcoming to others.

Diversity Day!

For Diversity day class 3 read the book “Talking is not my thing” which is about a autistic girl who uses non verbal communication to communicate. We explored different ways we can communicate and what ways we can help.

Diversity Day Summer term 1

Reception have celebrated diversity day this term by reading the story “The same but different too”. Reception discussed with their partners what is the same but different about the characters on the front cover of the story, together we then read the story and discussed with our partners what is the same but different about us in class. Reception then drew and wrote sentences about what is the same about us and somebody else and what is different too.

Diversity Day

Well done to all the children today, completing our Diversity Day work using the book ‘Specs for Rex’. The children discussed how it is ok to be different and everybody has something unique about themselves. In the story, Rex was worried about wearing new glasses, but he soon found they had positive effects!!

Diversity Day Spring

For diversity day this term Reception read the story ‘It’s okay to be different’ which had a positive messages of acceptance and promotes confidence for all. Reception then had a circle time where they all discussed that’s it’s okay to be themselves. Reception then drew and wrote a sentence as to why it’s okay to be something which was then shared in assembly.

Diversity Day – Walk Tall

This diversity day, we used the story ‘Walk Tall’ as our stimulus to explore the P4C question ‘Do people always know that they are bully?”

Diversity Day

During Diversity Day class 3 looked at the book “Buster the Bully” by Maisha Oso. The book is about a fish that picks on and bullies other little fish. He then goes out to sea and gets bullied by a shark and killer whale. The book gives both perspectives of being the bully and bullied. We discussed what it feels like to be bullied.

Diversity Day Spring 2

Using Tom Percival’s ‘Meesha Makes Friends’ as a stimulus, the children produced some excellent instructions of how to make friends before completing a P4C session with the question ‘Should there be rules for making friends? Would rules make it easier?’

Diversity Day

For Diversity Day we read ‘Ruby’s Worry’. We thought about the different themes in our story and discussed what a worry is. We spoke about what we can do when we feel worried and thought about the different people we can share our worries with.
Our P4C question was ‘Is it ever useful to worry?’

Diversity Day

Class 6 explored emotions in diversity day. We looked at what depression is and ways of making ourselves and others feel better.

Diversity Day

During Diversity Day class 4 looked at “a shelter for sadness” by Anne Booth. The book is about a small boy who creates a shelter for his sadness, a safe space where Sadness is welcome, where it can curl up small, or be as big as it can be, where it can be noisy or quiet, or anything in between. The boy can visit the shelter whenever he needs to, every day, sometimes every hour, and the two of them will cry and talk or just sit, saying nothing. We discussed whether you should ever pretend you don’t feel a certain emotion.

Diversity Day Spring 1

For diversity day this term we have read a lovely story called ‘When sadness comes to call’, we discussed what makes us sad some times and that it’s okay to be sad and be accepting of it. The children drew pictures of what makes them sad.

Diversity Day – I Have A Dream

Such rich discussions this morning during Diversity Day! We thought about the impact of Martin Luther King’s life and speech, then formulated a question for the class!!

Diversity Day – The Colours of Us

For diversity day we read a lovely story called “the colours of us”, we discussed the colours of people’s skin and how it makes us unique and we then created self portraits.

Diversity Day – The Patchwork Quilt

During Diversity Day class 4 had the pleasure of reading ‘The Patchwork Path’ by Bettye Stroud. We discussed the word ‘Equality’ and what this represented. Class 4 then enjoyed creating our own patchwork quilt.

Diversity Day – Moses

For Diversity Day we read the book Moses, a moving story of Harriet Tubman who bravely and selflessly led her people from slavery to freedom. We reflected (privately) on the story, formulated some questions and built on our ideas.

Diversity Day – Marvellous Me

Today, we celebrated Diversity Day. In Nursery we read a wonderful book called “Marvellous Me”. This text allowed our children to consider how they’re different from their classmates, but how each of them are Marvellous in their own unique way.