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Dear North Tawton Friends and Families, Happy Red Nose Day! Did you know that Comic Relief launched Red Nose Day in 1988? I was at college! My friends and I told jokes and did face painting in our local shopping centre. Comic Relief encourages schools and community groups to plan events, dress up, and complete challenges to raise money for children facing poverty in the UK and across the world. This year, the event has focused on supporting those in need during the current living crisis, focusing on issues such as lack of food and homelessness. Thank you for encouraging your children to wear red today and for the contributions to our cake sale! Miss Collins and Miss Wallis will collect up the money and let us know how much we have made for the charity. In the afternoon, we all met in the hall for a fun treat – we watched Mr Bean and told jokes.  Lots of TV shows and personalities support the cause. There will be programmes on TV from 7pm on BBC1 tonight. International Women’s Day In assembly, we learnt why we still need to address gender equality. While many aspects of women rights have been addressed, there is still a long way to go in this country and across the globe to ensure that women and girls, men and boys are all treated fairly. We spoke about the need for 50% representation in sport, law making, politics, business and all positions of influence. Lunch Times This week we have been reviewing our lunch time systems. It is important that all of our children feel safe and included in all aspects of the school day. The dinner hall can be noisy, and finding a seat can be overwhelming and uncomfortable for many of our pupils. We have been looking at ways to ensure the systems run smoothly and efficiently, and that the noise and bustle is reduced. We do instruct children where to sit ‘filling up tables’ so that children are not saving seats and making others feel uncomfortable when they are looking for somewhere to sit. We trialled sitting in mixed age groups, houses and have settled on a system where we line up in a way to aid our kitchen staff to distribute food quickly and tables are filled up in order. Games outside have also been an area we have been addressing. Younger children have not always looked after play equipment and put it away at the end of sessions. We now have a new storage space and system for distribution and collection of equipment. Older children are much better at looking after equipment, but there have been issues with football games being perceived as unfair. I was really impressed that a group of Y6 pupils took up my request to form a problem-solving group, giving up part of their lunch time to help find solutions to the organisation of football. We have a system we tried today and it worked better. Children need to stick to their team (no mid game transfers!) and one team wear bibs so it is clear to everyone who is on which team. It is important to us that we take in to consideration all of our children’s needs and we appreciate your support while we try new systems. Coats The weather is improving – however, children still need a coat every day! Today several children did not have waterproof coats. We are hardy North Tawtoners and like to be out in all weathers, so please make sure your children are dressed appropriately. Attendance Each week we monitor attendance. We are calculating attendance across the school houses and House Captains announce the percentages in Friday assembly.  Tin Can Collection Next week is the last week of our tin can collection. Pease bring along your cans for this worthy cause. We need your cola, soda, beer and cocktail cans! Please bring them to school on a Thursday where there will be a box at the gate. The cans will be recycled, and the money obtained given to the charity Families in Greif. Help for grieving children & families | Families in Grief Flowers Thanks to FONTS for donating plants to the school, the Y4 class and our Wildlife Champions have been busy planting this week. Do look at the planting in the Memorial Garden and the top of the carpark.  For photos and information about class learning, please click here for our blogs: Sycamore Class Hazel Class Ash Class Willow Class Beech Class Chestnut Class Oak Class Acorn Class Wishing you all a lovely weekend, Tara Penny Principal  Comments are closed.
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