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Congratulations to our new 2023-2024 school councillors who were elected by their class peers earlier this term.
It was straight onto business in their first council meeting last week, deciding on their key priority for this term: How to create more things to do or play at lunchtimes?
Councillors asked their classmates for suggestions regarding equipment and games and decided, as a group, what equipment they could purchase according to their allocated budget. Their next step will be decide how to share these resources between the two primary school playgounds.
Future projects will also involve getting involved in the local community and developing links with a local charity. Check back here for further updates.
We are in the process of developing an Integrated Resource (IR) for children with Communication and Interaction as their primary need and who have an Education and Health Care Plan.
When we launched a recruitment for some Healthy Minds champions we were overwhelmed by the response from the children and the enthusiasm that our champions have for their quest to spread kindness throughout Malin Bridge. With a "Kindness Charter" on display in every classroom, everybody is reminded of ways in which they can show kindness to other people and our environment every day. Our healthy minds champions show excellent examples of kind behaviour, notice and applaud kind behaviour in others and help other children.
Examples of kind behaviour we see:
We're so proud or our champions - keep up the good work!
Dear Parents and Carers,
You may have seen recent media coverage regarding Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) and its use in educational settings. RAAC is a lightweight form of concrete; because it is weaker than regular concrete, concerns have been raised about its long-term durability. Department for Education (DfE) has recently changed its guidance to education settings on the management of RAAC to take a more precautionary approach and as a result areas in affected spaces will be vacated.
We wanted to inform you that we are not affected by this decision as we do not have RAAC in any of our buildings and therefore they will continue to function as normal. We understand that parents may want to understand more about the support to educational settings to manage RAAC safely. You can read more through the article published by the DfE on the Education Hub.
I hope that this offers reassurance.
Yours faithfully,
Robbie McGrath
Headteacher
