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Value in Everyone
Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Christmas is Coming!
Thu 30 Nov 2023Christmas is coming!
Christmas is certainly on its way at Jarrow Cross. We are waiting excitedly for our Christmas Tree to arrive and last Friday some of our Year 6 children began the celebrations by performing at The Christmas Lights switch on at Jarrow Town Hall. See last night’s Gazette for some fabulous photos!
On Friday 1st December it is the Friends of Jarrow Cross Christmas Fayre which starts at 3pm. This is taking place as usual in the small hall. School will also be running stalls. We hope to see you there.
On Monday 4th we will celebrate the First Sunday of Advent and light our first candle on our Advent Wreath. We will continue to celebrate each week of Advent on the lead up to our Christmas holidays.
Next week it is all about pantomimes! On Wednesday 6th Year 1 and 2 are off to the Custom’s House to watch Aladdin and on Thursday 7th Years 3-6 are off to the Theatre Royal to watch Pinocchio.
The following week it’s Nativity time! Reception will be performing their Nativity at 2pm on Tuesday 12th December.
On Friday 15th during the morning session starting at 10am our Year 2 children will take the lead with their Nativity and Year 1 will support. The afternoon performance will begin at 2.30pm in which Year 1 children will take the lead and will be supported by Year 2.
On Wednesday 13th our Reception Children are off to visit Santa at Hall Hill Farm and on Thursday 14th it is our Christmas lunch. If your child usually has as packed lunch and would like to join us for Christmas Lunch simply contact the office.
Then the parties begin!! (More information will be sent out about each party next week)
Monday 18th is party time for Reception!
Tuesday 19th is a very busy day as it’s party time for Year 1 and Year 5
Wednesday 20th it’s party time for Year 2 and Year 6.
Then it’s the turn of our Y3/4 children to party on Thursday 21st.
Also on Thursday 21st Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 will be finishing the year with our Carol Service at St. Peter’s Church. This will start at 11am and as usual we would love to see you there.
Some of the children will also be singing at many events throughout December.
On Monday 11th children will be singing at Roseway House. On Tuesday 12th at the Dementia Friendly Event at St. Peter’s Church starting at 2pm.
Wednesday 13th school has a double bill, performing at Stapleton Care Home Care Home at 2pm and then taking part in the Carols by Candlelight Service at St Paul’s Church. This begins at 6pm again we would love to see you there.
Phew then Friday 22nd is our last day of term.
It’s certainly going to be a very busy month!!
Simply contact the office if you have any queries about the above events.
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Child-Friendly Anti-Bullying Policy
Thu 23 Nov 2023As part of Anti-Bullying week, our KS2 children looked at our school Anti- Bullying Policy and thought about how we could make it more accessible for all of our children.
The children worked very hard to create a ' Child Friendly Version' which will be shared with all of of our year groups and support all of our work around ' Anti Bullying.' It will also be shared with our Governor's and the Local Authority.
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RSPCA response
Wed 22 Nov 2023The RSPCA have responded to our 'adopt me' blurbs which we wrote to help some of their animals become adopted.
Not only have they sent us a thank you letter, they have also advertised our blurbs on their social media
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0onKSDc4zi3fERFCWAMzpVsBvKWrvZVRAno1dXxrLkyRNrCKxjFAbiEqLKw9FULEl&id=100064347893457
We are waiting on hearing back from Newcastle's Dog and Cat Shelter too so watch this space!
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Children in Need
Sun 19 Nov 2023Today we were all 'spotacular' for Children in Need. We raised approx £450. Thank you so much for your support and well done to Isabella who won Pudsey Bear in our raffle.
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You, Me and The World!
Thu 16 Nov 2023It is safe to say that the past two months have been eventful and busy! Both October and November have been filled with world events that all link with the subject You, Me and the World (PSHCE including RSE) and we wanted to share our work with you!
Black History Month
October was Black History Month!
Here at Jarrow Cross, we wanted to focus on less familiar, but significant individuals. Each class was given a black individual to research and find out more about them: what they were known for; their achievements; and any challenges faced.
Once the children had spent time in class discussing, researching and exploring the impact of each person, they then created a shared class page/fact file.
Every class page was then collected in and from this, we were able to create our own non- fiction text in the style of “Young, gifted and black”.
The title for our text is Brilliant, Bold and Black.
We felt beyond inspired by the individuals we researched.
In our celebration worship, our text was shared amongst the whole school and is now on display for people to view at their leisure.This year’s theme was ‘Before Windrush’. The rationale behind this theme was because there is a common misconception that black people only started to travel/migrate to Britain during the Windrush period. However, it is important to recognise that there were black individuals who arrived and lived in Britain much earlier.
An example of just some of these individuals we learnt about were: John Blanke, Mary Seacole and Lucius Septimius Severus.
World Mental Health Day
Jarrow Cross held a mental health day in November due to our boiler troubles back in October!
This year’s theme was: TALK!
Juice and Jabber:
We thought there was no better way to implement this theme but to hold a ‘Juice and Jabber’ event. We took inspiration from the adult event version of ‘Tea and Talk’. As well as this, we found that last year’s ‘Speed Talking’ was a hit, so we wanted to do something similar.
We timetabled this event so each class worked with or ‘talked to’ another class from another year group. Once we got into the hall, we grabbed a cup of juice and began our jibber jabbering. We had the most amazing time where we asked ice-breaker questions and played games such as ‘Would you rather’ whist we got to know one another.
The children really enjoyed it and it has encouraged them to talk to children from different year groups much more whist they are outside on the yard!
Class-based tasks:
We listened to the story ‘Find Your Happy’ and then held discussions to address the misconception: You only have good mental health if you are happy all of the time.We encouraged children to recognise that it is ok not to feel happy all of the time, but what is important is to develop coping mechanisms and strategies to ‘find their happy’ again.
From this, we created our very own school version of this text. The text was shared during our celebration worship and is on display to read at any time!World Kindness Day/Anti Bullying Week
This year, we decided to merge the two events because they fit perfectly together.
We wanted to look at how these events can impact ourselves, our school and the wider world.We decided to focus on 3 areas and their impact:
-Kindness to ourselves
-Kindness to our school community
-Kindness to the wider world: animals
Kindness to ourselves
We discussed and realised that we can often be kinder to others than we are to ourselves. We agreed that we can sometimes be harsh on ourselves and focus on what we can’t do instead of what we can do etc.
In KS1, we drew reflections of ourselves in a mirror and wrote positive qualities about ourselves around them.
In KS2, we were given negative statements and had to write advice which we would give to our friends if they said something negative to us. After we gave lots of positive responses, the teachers informed us that this was advice we could give to ourselves if we were to think negatively about ourselves.
Kindness to our school community
In KS1, we created ‘Personalised Shout Out Poems’ for each other and we all felt so happy after hearing what our peers had to say about us!
In KS2, we thought about our school anti-bullying policy and decided to create our own children’s version. This new policy is now going to be used alongside the school’s policy, be presented to our governors and shared with the local authority!
Kindness to the wider world: animals
Not only is it important to be kind to people, it is equally as important to be kind to animals. Newcastle Cat & Dog Shelter and the RSPCA sent us photographs and information about some of the animals in their shelters. We created persuasive ‘adopt me pleas’ to encourage the public to adopt them. Our writing will be posted on their social media and their website too! If you would like to read them all, visit our website under: Key information- Curriculum- Curriculum subjects – PSHCE You Me & The World – Implementation- World Events Covered.
As you can see, the children have been extremely busy and we have been so incredibly proud of their contributions and mature attitudes during all of these activities.
Yours sincerely,
Miss Elcoate
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Remembrance Service 2023
Fri 10 Nov 2023Year 6 led our Remembrance Service today. During the service we we remembered and paid honour to all those who have died in the line of duty. Thank you Year 6 for delivering a very important and thought provoking service.
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Well done Girls
Thu 09 Nov 2023The 5/6 girls have had a fantastic afternoon winning 5-0 against Bedeburn, 1-0 against Biddick Hall and lost 1-0 against East Boldon, well done girls!
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