World Book Day Poetry Slam

What a brilliant day we have had today for WBD 2024. This year we decided to focus on poetry books and asked all the children to come in dressed as a character from a poem or nursery rhyme and they looked absolutely amazing. I don’t think two children wore the same outfit, there was so much imagination on display: we even had a real live Muffin Man, who brought in a tin of delicious muffins for us to eat. We started the morning with an incredible Poetry Slam, that saw all classes performing some wonderful poems and raps, with actions and humour – they had it all. What a fantastic way to celebrate WBD. Thank you to all our families for finding the outfits and helping the children to learn their poems. It was wonderful!! Take a look at our photographs of children and staff joining in the fun.

This is Careers Week, so we have arranged for a few visitors to join us and tell the children all about their careers. On Monday morning, we had a visit from Jen, who is a copywriter, and Izzy, who is a marketing executive, from Buzz Education, to talk to the whole school about their careers. First of all, we explained that there are many different jobs and careers available to them when they leave school, but they need to make sure they choose something they enjoy doing and that they are good at and school can help them with this.

Jen and Izzy then explained what their jobs entailed and what skills and knowledge they needed to gain employment, and what subjects they needed to work hard at in order to do their job well. Our Kingdom Club also led a 'Who am I?' role play with the school, who did an excellent job of working out which careers they were portraying.

Afterwards, Jen led a workshop in our Year 5 class creating a holiday brochure, while Izzy led a workshop in Year 4 on persuasive advertising. Both classes are going to complete their projects and send it to Buzz Education for feedback.

We also had a fabulous visit from David from Community Rail, who delivered an important talk about rail safety before telling the children about all the varied careers on the railways: from drivers, engineers, cleaners, conductors, dispatchers and the people who work in the ticket offices. He also brought a range of outfits for the children to wear and explained each of the roles. What a great information session we had.

Our visitors and the follow up work we have had in class have definitely got the children thinking about what careers they might like in future and what skills and knowledge they need to acquire.