Our Journey Days
Every Term, we choose one of our school values to explore during a 'Journey Day'.
Each Journey Day begins with an Assembly to introduce the value chosen and then pupils explore what the value really means through a range of engaging activities throughout the day.
Each Journey Day begins with an Assembly to introduce the value chosen and then pupils explore what the value really means through a range of engaging activities throughout the day.
Spring Term 2023
Value: Ambitious
Using the Little People, Big Dreams series, children learnt about the lives of inspirational people who demonstrated great courage and ambition to make a difference to our planet.
Activities:
- Activity 1 - David Attenborough - Nature trail and classification in the wildlife area
- Activity 2 - Alexander von Humboldt - Discovering new species using ICT
- Activity 3 - Mary Anning - Learning from fossils and making fossils from salt dough
- Activity 4 - Stephen Hawking - Learning about his life and his theories
- Activity 5 - Greta Thunberg - Protest march to save our planet
This also coincided with World Book Day later in the week in which pupils dressed-up in an outfit inspired by an inspirational person from the Little People, Big Dreams series.
Value: Ambitious
Using the Little People, Big Dreams series, children learnt about the lives of inspirational people who demonstrated great courage and ambition to make a difference to our planet.
Activities:
- Activity 1 - David Attenborough - Nature trail and classification in the wildlife area
- Activity 2 - Alexander von Humboldt - Discovering new species using ICT
- Activity 3 - Mary Anning - Learning from fossils and making fossils from salt dough
- Activity 4 - Stephen Hawking - Learning about his life and his theories
- Activity 5 - Greta Thunberg - Protest march to save our planet
This also coincided with World Book Day later in the week in which pupils dressed-up in an outfit inspired by an inspirational person from the Little People, Big Dreams series.
Autumn Term 2022
Value: Respectful
Activities:
- Activity 1 - Learning about school rules through playing Respectful board games
- Activity 2 - Respectful art - making stained-glass windows that represent being 'respectful'
- Activity 3 - Listening to the story about 'Jesus Cleansing the Temple' to learn about respect towards others and what God says about respect
- Activity 4 - Remembrance - learning about the symbol of the poppy to show respect to those who fought and died in past wars
- Activity 5 - Football Association - 'We only do positive' (previously 'Respect') campaign in the up-and-coming World Cup in Qatar
Value: Respectful
Activities:
- Activity 1 - Learning about school rules through playing Respectful board games
- Activity 2 - Respectful art - making stained-glass windows that represent being 'respectful'
- Activity 3 - Listening to the story about 'Jesus Cleansing the Temple' to learn about respect towards others and what God says about respect
- Activity 4 - Remembrance - learning about the symbol of the poppy to show respect to those who fought and died in past wars
- Activity 5 - Football Association - 'We only do positive' (previously 'Respect') campaign in the up-and-coming World Cup in Qatar
Spring Term 2022
Value: Inquisitive
Activities:
- Activity 1 - Dictionary vocabulary games
- Activity 2 - Learning about the Queen’s Jubilee through non-fiction texts to design a Jubilee medal using the knowledge they acquire
- Activity 3 - An escape room by finding facts from non-fiction books
- Activity 4 - Learning about the Commonwealth Games and trying new events through P.E,
- Activity 5 – ‘Shared reading’ with non-fiction books
As this Journey Day coincided with World Book Day, children dressed-up as someone or something from their favourite non-fiction genre e.g. cookery books - chef or cupcake, space - astronaut or planet, etc.
Value: Inquisitive
Activities:
- Activity 1 - Dictionary vocabulary games
- Activity 2 - Learning about the Queen’s Jubilee through non-fiction texts to design a Jubilee medal using the knowledge they acquire
- Activity 3 - An escape room by finding facts from non-fiction books
- Activity 4 - Learning about the Commonwealth Games and trying new events through P.E,
- Activity 5 – ‘Shared reading’ with non-fiction books
As this Journey Day coincided with World Book Day, children dressed-up as someone or something from their favourite non-fiction genre e.g. cookery books - chef or cupcake, space - astronaut or planet, etc.
Autumn Term 2020
Value: Resilient
Activities:
- Forest Schools - resilience & independence challenges
- P.E - Physical and mental endurance
- R.E - iSingPop - interactive bible stories and songs about resilience
- D&T - Incy wincy spider broaches and tower building
- Art - The Royal Mint - Diversity Built Britain 50p Coin challenge
- PSHE - Inspirational people who have demonstrated resilience
Value: Resilient
Activities:
- Forest Schools - resilience & independence challenges
- P.E - Physical and mental endurance
- R.E - iSingPop - interactive bible stories and songs about resilience
- D&T - Incy wincy spider broaches and tower building
- Art - The Royal Mint - Diversity Built Britain 50p Coin challenge
- PSHE - Inspirational people who have demonstrated resilience
