Today, on behalf of Year 6, Niamh, Izzy and Simeon attended Coventry Young People’s Peace and Reconiliation Conference 2019.

The Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation invited teachers and home educators to bring up to 3 students from years 6 to 9 to talk to peace activists and organisations fighting crime and violence at Coventry’s Council House.

They sat with the peace activists in facilitated circles in which everyone had an equal right to speak and be heard. The young people were given the opportunity to be able to explain how they feel about violence, knife crime, gangs etc. They discussed what problems young people currently face and what they think needs to be done about it.Teachers, Police, PeaceMakers, Restorative Justice facilitators and members of the community talked about what they are already doing to promote safety and peace and what challenges they face.The children then helped to brainstorm what more can be done to reduce violence and conflict and increase peace, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation.

The event ended with a summary of the ideas raised and Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation announced how they will be helping young people, schools and peace activists put their ideas into practice.

Year 6 and Year 5 had the best morning watching ‘Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse’ at the cinema this morning, as part of the Into Film Festival. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the movie and the experience (espeically the teachers!).

It was a great way to start the day – we just wish we could do it every day!

As always, thank you to the children for representing the school so beautifully – they truly are a credit!

CINEMA REMINDERS

06/11/19

• Children to arrive in school promptly as we will be departing All Souls’ at 8.50am to walk to the Skydome
• Wear full school uniform (including jumpers) and have a warm waterproof coat on – it will most probably be raining at some point!
• Please wear appropriate footwear (we do not want soggy feet!)
• 1 x snack (individual sized) and 1 x drink (no cans please)
• Children will be back in school for lunch time
• GET EXCITED!

As part of the ‘Living things and their habitats’ unit in Science, Year 6 have been investigating which conditions mould grows the most. This was the result (yuck!): Ask them what they found out!

Year 6 began the new half term by celebrating our class saint, Saint Pope John Paul II, whose feast day took place during half term on the 22nd October.

We arrived at school dressed in red, blue and yellow clothes to reflect St. John Paul II’s coat of arms.

We began the day learning all about Saint Pope John Paul II and his life, including his papacy and his journey to sainthood. It was soon clear to see why he is such a special man and why his life was so highly celebrated!

Saint Pope John Paull II is well known for his preaching – he travelled far and wide to ensure he was passing on the word of God to everyone he could. This gave him the nickname of the ‘Pilgrim Pope’. We explored his famous quotes in more depth, discussing what we thought he meant by his words and what we can learn from them.

Throughout the day, we had lots of activities on the go!

Oil pastels and chalk were used to create stained glass windows of Saint Pope John Paull II by some children:

Some children chose to make flags displaying St John Paul II’s coat of arms:

Others decided to re-create the coat of arms using squared paper to help them draw it to scale:

We all then used the kindles to conduct our own further research to create teaching posters about our class saint, Saint Pope John Paull II.

Finally, we saved the best until last … W had learnt that Saint Pope John Paull II was the first Polish pope so we decided to all bring in an item of Polish food to indulge in with a shared buffet! Everyone did so well trying everything, from different meats to gherkins!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to a fabulous day and for bringing in food – whether shop bought or homebaked, it was all delicious! 🙂