Year 6 had an amazing time at Crucial Crew and learned such a lot about keeping themselves safe. The trip involved the children taking part in different scenarios that required them to think about what they would do in each situation. In total, they completed 8 activities which were: Home Fire Safety, Arson, Bus Safety, Water Safety, Road Safety, Mock Trial, Child Criminal Exploitation and Knife/Hate crime. 

Joseph Bower returned to KPS today to deliver a poetry workshop linked to Remembrance Day. We learned more about the significance of the day as well as the importance of poetry in the Bible. 
We learned about a gentleman called Donald Caskie who is best known for his work in France during WWII. He helped allied sailors, soldiers and airmen escape from Occupied France.
We wrote a class poem about the work that Donald Caskie completed based upon the fact that his code name was Donald Duck. We were then challenged to write our own poems based either on the work of Donald Caskie or another element of war or remembrance.

Donald Caskie
This poem uses the name Donald Duck which was Caskie's code name during WWII.
Desperate to save lives in
Occupied France. 
Never giving up.
Always focussing on saving the 
Lives of the innocent.
Daring to put himself in

Danger to
Use his position to 
Care for others and 
Keep them safe. 

Remembrance
Remember the past so that we don't repeat.
Escaping was possible because of "Donald Duck".
Maybe if we were all nice, bombs would not fall like rain.
Every time there is a war it causes people pain.
Mighty wars continue over the years.
Because of this innocent people suffer
Roaring of guns split children from families
A minute away from death all the time
No need for this.
Can we just be nice?
Ending of wars should teach us a lesson but its 2024 and the guns have not stopped. 

The children in Year 6 have been developing their sewing skills over the past few weeks and have been creating their own drawstring bags. The children have shown excellent levels of perseverance and resilience during this process as well as developing their cutting, pinning and sewing skills. Many of the children have had to adapt their initial designs having realised that their initial designs were too complex. We are now at the final stages of construction and look forward to showing you our finished products.

On Wednesday, Year 6 participated in a Sikh workshop where they learned all about this religion and the core beliefs and values within this religion. The children showed great understanding and respect to our school visitor and had many questions to ask him about his way of life.