Kindness and Community Spirit
Lionheart school corridors and classrooms buzzed with energy in November as staff and pupils embraced opportunities to celebrate two important causes; Anti-Bullying Week and Children in Need.
Here’s some highlights from our schools:
Anti-Bullying Week
Kicking the week off with a splash of colour, many of our schools started Anti-Bullying Week with Odd Socks Day, inviting staff and pupils to wear their boldest and brightest.
Assemblies formed a big part of the week: Riverside Primary School focused on this year’s campaign theme ‘Power for Good,’ while pupils at Newhall Junior School explored the various forms that bullying can take and how they can stand against it. Elsewhere, the Brocks Hill School Parliament led an inspiring session, encouraging everyone to use their words and actions to make a positive difference.
Kindness was the word of the Week at The Castle Rock School and The Cedars Academy, where students created kindness chains and wrote uplifting messages to display around the school. At Hallam Fields Primary, pupils wrote powerful statements that now brighten classrooms and corridors, reminding everyone that small acts can have a big impact.
Children in Need
From pyjamas to Pudsey Bear hunts, our schools threw themselves into activities to celebrate Children in Need, all while raising money!
It was a festival of fun at Beauchamp College with live lunchtime music providing the perfect backdrop to a plethora of fun activities, including pin-the-nose on Pudsey, can-throw and a mini basketball shootout.
Newhall Junior School kept up its much-loved tradition of collecting pennies for Pudsey, filling a giant bear with donations as pupils dressed up for the occasion, while Hallam Fields Primary added a creative twist with a Pudsey-themed curriculum day, complete with biscuit decorating and plenty of colourful outfits.
Adventure filled the air at Humphrey Perkins School, where students searched high and low to try and locate 25 Pudsey Bears, which had been cunningly concealed around the school. Those lucky enough to find one earned precious golden passes to skip the lunch queue, making the challenge even more worthwhile!
Meanwhile, Mercia Academy embraced fitness and fun with a ‘Challenge to 25’ initiative, encouraging students to run, walk or skip for 25 minutes, hold yoga poses for 25 seconds and even score 25 goals.
Across our East Midlands schools, pupils and staff demonstrated the power of community spirit, creativity and kindness; coming together to make a real difference, both in their classrooms and beyond!
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