Latest News from Long Row Primary School

• READ ALL ABOUT IT!

  Thu 15 Dec 2022

  READ ALL ABOUT IT! 

  Have you seen the strange shop that has mysteriously appeared in Belper? Well, year 5/6 did and they have been interviewing local residents to find out all about it. Our classes turned into news rooms, as the children had to find out about the strange Nowhere Emporium. We learnt from Huw Edwards at the BBC that we had to be clear, concise and correct, so we did a lot of editing! See some of us in action and read some of our news reports below: 

  

• Bird Feeders

  Tue 13 Dec 2022

  The school councillors made bird feeders to help our feathered friends at this chilly time of the year. 

  

• Christmas Choir

  Mon 12 Dec 2022

  The Christmas Choir have enjoyed their first performance of the year, singing a range of traditional and modern Christmas carols.  They sang at the Congregational Chapel for the Belper District 50+ Forum and, as in previous years, the audience really enjoyed their singing and the actions for Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer! We have already been invited back again next year.

  We are incredibly proud of all those who sang today and represented Long Row with such enthusiasm, and we look forward to more singing in the run-up to Christmas.

  Mrs Z-B

  

• Severn Trent

  Fri 09 Dec 2022

  Key Stage 2 enjoyed an assembly today presented by Leanne from Severn Trent. They learnt about plastic pollution and the importance of keeping hydrated. Then the year 5/6 pupils enjoyed a workshop; 'Sewer Soup' proved to be fun!

  

• THANK YOU

  Mon 05 Dec 2022

  Thank you to everyone who contributed towards our book sale on Friday. £59.60 was raised! 

• Cha Cha Dance Festival and final club session

  Thu 01 Dec 2022

  Following our final cha cha dance club session on Tuesday, ten of the dancers performed at the Amber Valley Sports Partnership Dance Festival yesterday. We were the only school to have Key Stage 1 pupils included. They were ably supported by our older dancers to perform Cha Cha Slide. Our Key Stage 2 pupils performed to YMCA, but their performance had the added twist of dancing the cha cha with a partner. They did a fantastic job and Mrs. Hamlin and Mrs. North are very proud of their effort and enthusiasm. 

   

  

• REACH OUT! BE KIND! CELEBRATE DIVERSITY!

  Thu 24 Nov 2022

  REACH OUT! BE KIND! CELEBRATE DIVERSITY!

   

  What a wonderful start to our PSHE unit - Bullying Matters, celebrating difference with our odd socks last Monday as part of anti-bullying week. 

   

  As a school, we are always talking with the children about respect and positive behaviours and this week we have pieced our understanding together.

   

  Year 5/6 school council members delivered an assembly on our children's version of the anti-bullying policy. They explained: what bullying is and isn't, what it can look like, what to do if you are being bullied and how we can ensure we are a bully-free at school. 

   

  They explained:

   

  STOP = Several Times On Purpose. Bullying is intentional behaviour, which hurts someone else.

  Bullying is not falling out with a friend or having an argument. 

   

  Bullying can be physical, verbal, indirect (like gossiping or spreading rumours) or cyber bullying and can impact on your emotional health and well-being.

   

  Grace explained that bullying can happen in groups and people can be part of the bullying if they laugh or join in and if you see bullying and do nothing, you are a bystander. We should be defenders and always stand up for people who are being bullied.

   

  The message was clear: if you are being bullied, you need to talk to an adult in school, who can help straight away - ask your child who they could talk to at school.

   

  Jacob asked what we can all do to ensure there isn't any bullying. We all agreed to use kind words, have kind hands and feet, show respect at all times, check on people if they are lonely or sad and to invite people to join in our games.

   

  In class:

  Year 5 and 6 have looked at discrimination and prejudice and how people can be bullied due to their religion, gender, sexuality, race, culture, body image, fashion and more. The produced some key messages

   

  Year 3 and 4 looked at videos, discussed different types of bullying and made some wonderful posters.

   

  Reception, Year 1 and 2 learnt about STOP and trusted adults they could talk to in and out of school. They have done lots of work on kindness.

   

  The children will be continuing their work on Bullying throughout this half term in their PSHE lessons. To see what else your child will be learning follow this link to our unit overviews, which are updated every half term PSHE | Long Row Primary School

  

• Anti-bullying week and Children in Need

  Mon 21 Nov 2022

  Oak class revealed their odd socks on Monday to start Anti-Bullying Week to show that being different to others is to be celebrated. Today, they got spotty for Children in Need.

   

  To date we have raised £103.00 for Children in Need. THANK YOU!

  The payment items is still live on Parent pay for any last-minute donations :) 

   

  

• Maple Class - Beaker People

  Mon 07 Nov 2022

  Maple class have been enjoying using clay to create beakers.  These are based on the clay pots made by the Beaker People we have been studying in History.  We used coils of clay to build our bases (a bit like a snail) and then built up the sides.  We then smoothed the clay and used picks to make geometric patterns.  

  

• PTA Cake and uniform sale

  Fri 04 Nov 2022

  The PTA would like to thank everyone who donated to the cake and uniform sale last term.

  £154.20 was raised - Thank you!