The Courier

Dear Parents

One of our key pastoral objectives of this academic year was to refresh the Crescent school promise so as to enhance the feeling of ownership for all members of the community who have joined us since it was first written.

As such I led a whole school assembly back in September to open up thoughts on what it is to be a good friend, citizen and learner.  All children were challenged during weekly form time to brainstorm as many words as they could which described each part of the promise.

These came back to me tenfold and I entered them all into word cloud type documents whereby the more times a word has been mentioned, the larger it is displayed to provide a really visual aid to the promise.

This was taken to school council who approved the results and the next steps which were then presented to all children in assembly. School council members acted out some sketches to exemplify what the words could look like in real life situations.

Over upcoming weeks the word clouds will sit alongside copies of the promise in classrooms and corridors to refresh in the children their actions and to further enhance their belonging/ownership of the promise.