Spring Term 2013 Review
Some photographs taken from the spring term can be viewed here.
MESSENGER 24 May
The Messenger for Week 7 of the summer term is here...
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Year 6 learn how to be good citizens
Year 6 at King Edward’s Junior School have been looking at ways they can give something back to the community as part of their Active Citizens Award.
The Active Citizens Award encourages the children to think about how they can help other people within their community. All 60 children in Year 6 are involved in initiating their own project for Active Citizen. Some of the activities pupils have been involved in include; volunteering to walk an elderly neighbour’s dog, helping in a nursery, visiting senior citizens, collecting T-shirts for a charity who send them to Brazil and helping at the Bath Foodbank. Every child in Year 6 can choose an activity of their choice.
The aim of the Active Citizen Award is to inspire children to help within their community and to carry out a selfless act on behalf of others and to give their time willingly.
The three pupils, James Purser, Xavier Raynes and Alexander Christopherson, who helped at the Bath Foodbank were inspired by their visit to organise a food collection at school. The whole of the Junior School contributed food items to give to the Foodbank who help families in crisis in Bath.
The Active Citizens is part of the Year 6 Award Scheme. The Award Scheme is a chance for the children to extend their learning by completing a series of tasks, both individually and in groups, both inside and outside the classroom which link all aspects of the curriculum. Activities include; A Victorian Murder Mystery Day where pupils must act as detectives and sift through the evidence to solve the case, Dragon’s Den, where pupils pitch a new business to the business ‘Dragons’ and then develop the idea into a fundraising activity at the Summer Fair, a Design and Technology Challenge Day, an Adaptation Project and many more.
Visit by Interfaith Minister
On Monday 15th April, Charles Kemp, a local interfaith minister, visited the Junior School.
Pupils celebrate World Book Day with a Guinness World Record Attempt
Pupils from King Edward’s Junior School and Combe Down Primary School attempted to break the record for the ‘largest reading lesson in a single venue’ to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 7th March.
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288 children attended the lesson, which was taught by King Edward’s Elizabeth MacFarlan and author of the Penny Dreadful book series, Joanna Nadin.
The reading lesson, created by Elizabeth in conjunction with Joanna, was based around an extract from Penny Dreadful is a Record Breaker. The lesson aimed to introduce pupil’s to new vocabulary as well as developing inferential skills, but emphasis was definitely to make reading fun.
The Right Worshipful Mayor of Bath, Councillor Andrew Furze, and the Bath Chronicle’s Education Reporter, Siobhan Prideaux, acted as independent witnesses to the event.
Publishers Usborne books will now submit all the relevant evidence to Guinness World Records to verify that Usborne, the pupils of King Edward’s Junior School and Combe Primary School, and Joanna Nadin have achieved a new world record.
