Sharing stories
The teachers at Buttercup swapped classes and shared their favourite stories with the children. There was great excitement around the school as stories were told. It was great to see the teachers spend time with the different year groups.
Poetry day in EYFS
During Poetry Week, Early Years children enjoyed watching Michael Rosen perform his poem: Chocolate Cake. They really loved Michael’s expressive voice and facial gestures so much so that they too joined in with the actions such as licking the crumbs and eating the yummy cake.
The children were in fits of laughter, especially at end when Michael’s mum found out in the morning that there was no more chocolate cake left and he pretended he didn’t know!
Bookbike London
Emdad Rahman OBE kindly got in touch with the school and offered to gift us brand new books and stationary for the children to enjoy. Emdad is part of an amazing initiative that provides books to schools, vulnerable people and families at home to read. All these books are hand delivered by Emdad on his bike!
We thank Emdad for his kindness and hope to support this great cause and receive more wonderful books to enjoy!
First week after lockdown
Alhamdulillah we are back!
When we first heard schools were reopening, we all were very excited. We all preferred learning in person with our teacher than learning from the computer. The pandemic has effected us all and we found it very hard being at home without any visits by our friend and families. We were all anxious and nervous coming back to school but as soon as we saw our friends and teachers we were very happy to be back and meet everyone.
Abdurrahman Boubeker Year 6
First week after lockdown
Alhamdulillah we are back!
When we first heard schools were reopening, we all were very excited. We all preferred learning in person with our teacher than learning from the computer. The pandemic has effected us all and we found it very hard being at home without any visits by our friend and families. We were all anxious and nervous coming back to school but as soon as we saw our friends and teachers we were very happy to be back and meet everyone.
Abdurrahman Boubeker Year 6
Mental Health Ambassadors
We are the Buttercup Primary School Mental Health Ambassadors.
We were elected into our roles by the rest of the school and we represent years 1-6.
We are here to promote positive discussions surrounding mental health. We recognise that we are all different and have different mental health at times. We are here to support the development of Mental Health discussions across the school.
We meet monthly with Ms Sulthana to discuss what we can do as a school to be more aware of our mental health. We have recently successfully launched the ‘Calm club ‘where children can visit every lunchtimes and can participate in different activities to support their wellbeing. one of us will support the club every day during lunchtime and will take turns to assist in being there for those children who may need support.
Anti-Bullying Week
Thursday 19th November 2020
Anti-Bullying Week
LO: To think about what bullying is and how to help yourself or others who are being bullied.
For anti-bullying, children engaged in various activities such as:
- Identifying different types of bullying
- l end a hand activity – children identified their support network through a framework- who they trust that they can go to for help in case of bullying or witnessing bullying.
- Acted out scenarios and freeze frames.
- Mean words go in the bin GAME: they wrote mean words on paper and then scrunched it and threw it in the bin.
- Hand print poster to symbolise that Year 3 and 4 stand against bullying.
- Wordsearch: key words highlighting bullying and explaining how they related to bullying and what they mean. Discussion held.
- painting activity: every child involved. Printed their hands to symbolise WE STAND AGAINST BULLYING
Anti-bullying campaign at Buttercup
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 20th 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 Week
Anti-Bullying Week
During anti-bullying week, in EYFS we talked about the different types of bullying and how it can make us feel sad and upset. We drew a helping hand to remind us of all different adults that children can go to if we are ever worried about anything. We watched a power point on kindness, and we shared how to be kind such as by sharing our toys during free flow play, helping our friends, listening to them, and most importantly smiling and keeping cheerful because it is the sunnah of our prophet Muhammed (SAW). We celebrated anti-bullying week on Friday by wearing green; our slogan was “wear green and don’t be mean!”
We start our day with kindness, by singing our Islamic greeting song: ‘Assalamu’alaykum, How are You?’
We spread kindness throughout each day by smiling J
We enjoyed reading the story: You’re Not Ugly, Duckling! By Steve Smallman. This book teaches us about the subject of bullying; also how to deal and cope with bullying.
Anti- Bullying Class Poem By Year 5 and 6
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.
Voting day at Buttercup Primary school
On Friday 9th October the children at Buttercup primary school had the opportunity to cast their vote and have a say in who they want to represent them in the school council. It was a difficult decision for them as all the candidates were so deserving. They also experienced what democracy looks like when you have the right to vote and make your own decision about what you believe in. We look forward to counting the votes and announcing the winners soon!
Pioneering personalities: Year 1/2
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.
Pioneering Personalities Week, in EYFS
The children in EYFS made cards, flower bouquets and crowns for their mums as they celebrated ‘Pioneering personalities’ week-
Pioneering personalities week in EYFS
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.”
Pioneering Personalities week at Buttercup
As part of their homework, children were given the task to create posters and fact sheets about their special pioneering personality. Year 3/4 researched about Abdullah Quilliam and Year 5/6 researched about Mansa Musa. Here are some of the wonderful work that were produced by the children.
