British Values/DT/6Rs
On Wednesday 7th June 2023, staff and children combined Design Technology ( DT), British Values and the 6Rs in a range of activities. If you have ever designed and made models and machines, cooked recipes for the first time, sewn your own clothes etc, you will know that it can be very hard work, it can be very challenging and frustrating. Often you also need to work with others, ask for advice and certainly be resilient. Therefore, we thought we would all need to use our learning character muscles to be successful in our DT projects. If you ask the Year 6 about making bird boxes, they will tell you this is very true!!
However, when completed, we all felt very proud of our successes.
Mrs Gadsby linked assemblies to the British Values and the 6Rs. We all discussed how the learning character muscles are so important if we are to be successful and they are not just for school, but for all areas of our lives.
We know what British Values are, but we decided that British Values could be called Everyone’s Values, or just Values, or Stokes Wood Values, or Good Values. We discussed how we use the Values at school and at home and elsewhere and how important they are.
The videos on the British Values tab and 6Rs tab will give you some more information. We also discussed equality later in the week and how everyone should have the opportunity to try and succeed in anything, how we should embrace difference and diversity and demonstrate respect for all.
Family Activity event
6 families enjoyed some time together. They made shelters in the forest school with Mr Laverick, toasted marshmallows with Mrs Furborough and Mrs Wakeling and helped keep the school grounds tidy by litter picking with Miss Stone.
Coronation of King Charles Celebrations
The whole school dressed in red, white and blue or as Kings and Queens and celebrated the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla.
French Charity Café
The school council promoted this event and it raised over £300 for the Leicester Children’s Holiday Homes.
Tres bien tout le monde
Easter HAF Club
Stokes Wood ran another successful HAF club at Easter for 4 days. As you can see the children took part in a variety of activity. The pictures show just a taster of what the children were able to do.
Events 2023
Here is a small selection of the special events we have held since January 2023: Chinese New Year, Rock Steady, Mother’s Day lunch, Jamie and Becky Vardy book signing. We like to give our children a wide range of experiences and opportunities.
Cost of Living Crisis
East Midlands Today report on how we are helpng in the Cost of Living Crisis.
Please click the link below:
https://youtu.be/2NQ9Yh2bowk
Christmas HAF club
What an amazing time 100 children had over 4 days in the Christmas holiday! The HAF club is funded by the DFE/Government and children can attend free or at a highly subsidised price. As you can see children take part in a range of activities including sports not pictured here. Samworth Brothers provided Christmas gifts and the cardboard boxes they arrived in provided hours of fun for den building!
Thank you to staff for working at the club.
Ice Skating
Year 3, 4 and 5 pupils had the opportunity to go ice-skating again this year. It is a difficult activity but despite continually falling over and getting wet, most children mastered balancing and skating to a lesser or greater degree. Well done…you need to be a Resilient Ryan to succeed in this activity!
Christmas dinner
About 400 children had Christmas dinner this year with all the trimmings as well as crackers. As you can see everyone helped out with serving the delicious food.
Christmas Fayre
It was lovely to be able to hold this family event again after 3 years. The Year 6 pupils worked really hard and made £475 for the school enrichment activity fund. As you can see children, mums, dads and staff really enjoyed the afternoon.
Vardy book signing
Mrs Gadsby and 2 Year 6 boys attended the Jamie and Becky Vardy book signing. They all received a signed book which is a story about having aspiration, being yourself and not giving up on your dream. Mrs Gadsby will be telling the story in her new year assembly.
KS1 pupils sing at Abbey House Care Home
The Key Stage 1 children walked down to Abbey House Care Home in the cold and snow to sing to the old ladies and gentlemen. The older generation were inside in the warm, but they really enjoyed the children’s beautiful singing and smiling faces. When it began to snow it made it even more perfect!
Science Open Evening
This was a wonderful occasion which showed off our pupils, staff, governors and families at their best. The school was buzzing. Pupils and their families could take part in science activities across the school, which was great fun as well as great learning. In addition, the gym club pupils showed off their skills and there was an opportunity to try out our lovely school lunches, drink hot chocolate whilst reading about science topics and test our physical and problem solving skills.
Our community policemen also supported our event.
Remembrance Parade
The whole school paraded around the school to present their poppy wreathes at the Peace Garden. The children in Y5 also made individual poppies from buttons which you can see in some of the pictures.
It was lovely to have members of the whole school community present: pupils, staff, parents and governors. Thank you to Mr Hill who played the Last Post throughout.
We remember all those who have given their lives across the world so that we can live freely.