We started Anti-Bullying Week with an ‘Odd Socks Day’. Children and staff wore a variety of odd socks to school. The emphasis was all about fun, expressing ourselves and celebrating diversity.  Thumbs up for a great start to the week! 

I first got interested in collecting Blue Peter badges as I have watched other viewers getting presented with their badges on the show. So, I decided that during lockdown I would set myself a target of trying to collect some for myself.

I was actually able to use some of the work my teachers put on See-saw to help me achieve the badges. I earned the iconic blue badge for a painting that I did called Fishy Mc Fish Face that was part of our topic about the ocean. We also had to make a model of a pollution buster to keep the seas clean. I sent a diagram of the model and a video of the model at work in our bath.

This helped me get the green badge. I achieved my 2020 sports badge by participating in the school’s virtual sports day and sent photos to the BBC of me in the sack race and egg and spoon race.

The music badge was designed by ED Sheerin and I earned it by learning to play the trumpet with Mr Tohill. I also had to write about my 3 top favourite songs and what type of music my mum liked! I have now applied for the purple fan club badge. I had to do some fan art and join the fan club online and post a message on the fan club page.

I was asked to suggest what I would do if I was in charge of the fan club for a day. I suggested creating a science badge that can be earned by doing science experiments.

Hopefully I will get my purple badge soon enough!

By Lorcán Higgins

The 2020 Global Handwashing Day theme is “Hand Hygiene for All.” The stated aims of Global Handwashing Day are to:

• Foster and support a general culture of handwashing with soap in all societies.
• Shine a spotlight on the state of handwashing in each country.
• Raise awareness about the benefits of handwashing with soap.
   
  In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year's theme follows the recent global initiative calling on all of society to scale up hand hygiene, especially through handwashing with soap.  Therefore, this year more than any other it is particularly important that we mark this day with the children and reinforce the message about the importance of maintaining good hand hygiene, both at school and at home.

We were planning to visit our partner schools in Barcelona and Bath, England to complete our current Erasmus project, after our successful hosting in March, but unfortunately this hasn’t been possible.  However, we have been able to connect remotely via technology and this has been great!

We had our visit to Bath last week and it was very successful.  It was lovely to see our partner schools and find out a bit more about school life for them, especially now with the changes that are in place.

Mrs Downey’s Year 4 class visited St Julian’s Primary in Bath as they had prepared some PowerPoints and videos about their school and area, just as if we were there for an actual visit.  We also got to speak to our partner school in Denmark who were also ‘visiting’.

We look forward to our next virtual trip to Barcelona after the midterm break!

You never know who is going to come knocking on the front door of your school … or indeed visit you in the playground.

Danny the Champion of the World - eat your heart out!