Archive for year: 2020

Wear green and don’t be mean!

Anti-bullying campaign at Buttercup

This year we have decided to remember Anti bullying day as ‘Kindness day’ to encourage and teach children to always be kind and respect each other. We discussed ways In which we could spread kindness through our actions and words. On Friday 20^th November, for a small donation of £1.00, the children were invited to wear the colour green to school! We chose the colour green because it a neutral and peaceful colour that reminds us of the gardens of Jannah.

 

Anti- Bullying Class Poem

By Year 5 and 6

Bullying is what we hate

Bullying is not our fate

Why are bullies here

No one should shed a tear

 

Bullies are bad

They make people sad

If they have rage

Lock them in a cage

 

Any bullying should not be allowed

No one should be up the cloud

Together we stand up to bullying

I don’t mind anything except for insulting.

Never make someone feel bad

 

Never make someone feel sad

Never make someone cry

Help them before the tears dry

 

Bullying is bad

It makes people feel sad

Bullying is mean

Don’t do it as a team

 

What makes you think it’s good?

To pull down someone’s hood

How would you feel?

If you got hit with wood or steel

 

Bullying is bad

It makes people sad

It drives people to suicide

And could end lives.

Bullying is bad

It makes others sad

We should stop bullying otherwise it makes others mad

Bullies do the crisis and we do the righteous.

As part of pioneering personalities week, year one and two were involved in activities based on their assigned person, Diana Spencer. During the week, the children were able to familiarise themselves with Diana and who she was. Our activity included crown making, which allowed the children to make their own crowns using borders and designing/painting/colouring/sticking them with paper, cotton wool, stickers and feathers and much more. The children were inspired to make crowns from Diana Spencer’s tiara as she was a member of the royal family. The children had fun using their creativity skills as well as their motor skills to design beautiful crowns.

For Pioneering Personalities Week, in EYFS we celebrated the theme of “My Mother” because as our Prophet Muhammed (SAW) reminds us in this Hadith, she has a unique status:

A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Messenger of God! Who among the people is the most worthy of my good companionship?

The Prophet (PBUH) said:

Your mother. The man said, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your mother.

The man further asked, ‘Then who?’ The Prophet said: Then your mother. The man asked again, ‘Then who?’

The Prophet said: Then your father. (Bukhari, Muslim)

We loved singing the nasheed “My Mother” by Yusuf Islam every morning to reflect on all the wonderful things our mothers do for us. During this week we had lots of fun making lovely cards for our mums. We created flower bouquets for her and amazing gold jewelled crowns because she is the ‘Queen’ in our lives. We especially enjoyed decorating cup cakes with glitter, icing, chocolate chips, and sprinkles for our super-star mums! After all, as narrated in a hadith: “paradise lies at the feet of your mother.”

Children from year 3&4 have been engaging in various activities relating to fire safety for this week’s theme- safety week.  They learnt and recorded key information about how to stay safe from fires and how to prepare for an emergency fire. The children also created posters of the fire safety rules given by the fire brigade.

Moreover, they learnt about the safety gear firefighters wear and the different parts of the fire engine that is used to extinguish a fire.

 

Children were asked about ‘stranger danger’, how to understand and spot a stranger and how to react in the safest and most appropriate way without panic. The class teachers acted out a scenario where they approached a child as a stranger, the children were able to identify the importance of not speaking to strangers and the importance of why they should walk away. Class teachers showed all children, who can be a trusted adult if they need any help (teacher or police officer) and if they have any queries or questions at any given time. Children also discussed the importance of road safety, identified road signs, and acted out short roleplays within groups. Children made props in class and prepared amazingly for their parts in the roleplay and wore professional overhauls to represent their characters. Whilst children were working within groups, they interacted with one another and helped each other to be aware of how important road safety was.  The roleplays included pupils to act as oncoming vehicles, lollipop lady/man and a walking pedestrian. The children practised how to cross the road by following the rules; STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN.

 

During safety week we learned about the new nasty germ, the corona virus. We now know why it is important to wash our hands with soap for 20 seconds, so that germs are washed away. The children had fun helping to make slime and pretending they was germs. They washed their hands with soap for 20 seconds to make sure they got rid of all the germs and their hands were squeaky clean. The children also learned that germs are invisible, although you cannot see them you must cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing

 

 

 

 

The children were encouraged to bring a used book from home to exchange with other members of their class. This way children got to take home a new book to enjoy, but without paying for it!

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