This week’s topic focuses on ‘Top tips for adopting safe and healthy online habits’. This guide looks at cultivating safe and healthy habits and building digital resilience. It covers making positive lifestyle choices, how to keep your health in mind and reaching out for support.
This week’s topic focuses on ‘What parents and carers need to know about setting boundaries around gaming’. This includes information on safer game choices, discussing age ratings and being prepared with trolls.
Information for Parents beginning of term Sept 2023
See below for a snippet of our wonderful Year 6 children who will be leaving us this year. They have had such an incredible journey at Nightingale and we wish them the best of luck in their future endeavours. You will be missed Year 6!
On Monday, Co-op Academy Nightingale, along with Co-op Academy Brownhill and Co-op Academy Woodlands played in the inaugural Rhys Myers Memorial Football Tournament in memory of a much-loved and inspirational teacher here at Nightingale. The day was enjoyed by all in the best spirit while also providing an opportunity for staff and children alike to reflect and think about was in which they could use values which Mr. Myers held dear in their own lives.
We were lucky to welcome some of Mr. Myers family to school to take part in the day. His wife Shaheen, his Mum and Dad as well as brother attended, they spoke to the children before the kick-off about the importance of participation, enjoyment and succeeding together in the right spirit. All classes were invited out to support, they came with banners, posters and songs to provide encouragement to all children involved.
After school the staff joined in and a group of Year 6 faced of with them in a students vs teacher match that was great fun!
The tournament will be held annually going forwards to remember Mr Myers and join in a celebration of things that he loved.
Nightingale pupils warmly welcomed a visitor from The Peace Museum based in Bradford.
All year groups engaged in a range of thought provoking workshops throughout the day including considering the feelings of children who experienced WWII Kinder Transport to working cooperatively to understand how voting works.
Other aspects of peace were explored creatively through learning about and designing symbols, creating peace poles , poetry and practicing techniques to help us remain calm inside when we feel challenged. A very positively peaceful day was had by all !
Last half term some of the children in Year 2 enjoyed attending Forest School sessions. They did activities such as pond dipping, bug hunting, tree climbing, den building and campfire making. Over the weeks they have developed their teamworking skills through games, map reading and treasure hunts as well as their resilience to complete tasks and take personal challenges. It is safe to say that the campfires and marshmallows were a firm favourite amongst the group!
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Today is our ‘Wake up Wednesday’. Every Wednesday we’ll share new information related to staying safe online.
This week’s topic focuses on ‘What parents and carers need to know about Discord’. Discord is a free app which allows users to communicate in real time via text, video or voice chat.
“…it’s also a place where young people can be exposed to risks if the right precautions aren’t taken”
– National Online Safety
If you’ve got any questions about National Online Safety, get in touch and ask to see Mr Pearce.
From the House of Commons to our Community Room!.
Nightingale’s now famous Eco-Club hosted a prestigious event this past Friday. Mrs. Tariket & Mrs. Bellis have worked tirelessly to provide wonderful enrichment opportunities for our children and show them the real difference they can make in our community and in their local area in general.
On Friday Eco-Club welcomed some politicians into school to answer some rather ferocious lines of questioning from our Year 6’s around environmental issues and how we can encourage those on power to do more to promote them.
Richard Burgon, who is a member of the Labour Party and the Member of parliament for Leeds East was in attendance as was Shahab Idris, a representative of the Green Party and Councillor Katie Dye, Chair of the Leeds City Council Climate Committee. Our very own headteacher, Mr Pearce was also on the panel to give an Educator’s perspective of environmental issues.
Many of our Year 6’s chose to stay after school to be part of the audience for the Question Time event that I have no doubt was just as demanding as Prime Minister’s questions each week.
The Panel Question Time was rounded off with Eco-club leading a tour of school to share the amazing work they have done with our Eco Garden, showing off the various projects from across this year.
At Nightingale today, all of our children engaged in a day to learn about racism, what that means and the impact of racism on everyone around us, as well as what we can do to carry the message of ‘make life kind’ Loti Nambombe joined us for the day, he hosted children and parents in an assembly before touring various classes to conduct workshops around the theme of anti-racism. He was supported by two of our Year 6 pupils Kaehaan and Amina who provided guidance, a school Tour and hope all of our children to engage in these workshops.
We hope today carried a lasting message for all of our children in joining Loti’s message of ‘Make Life Kind’ with our Co-op Value of ‘Show You Care’ and our children act upon their learning today to make everyone that little bit happier.
In year 3 we have been doing lots of art work this term. We began researching about an artist called Edgar Degas who uses charcoal to create drawings. We have been exploring different ways to use charcoal including using different pressure, smudging and using the edge of a charcoal pencil. This week we used the knowledge that we have gained to dance in charcoal. This was very exciting for the children in year 3. We wanted it to feel like a performance so children put their chairs in a circle around the paper and we changed the background music to see if this made a difference to the children’s mood when creating their piece of artwork. It was a super messy but very fun afternoon enjoyed by all!
