Good afternoon
Please see the below message from Jenny Munday – Deputy Group Scout Leader at 46th Rotherham Brecks Scout Group.
If you have any young people interested in joining scouting, we have places for 4-14yrs:
Squirrels 4-6 yrs
Beavers 6-8yrs
Cubs 8-10yrs
Scouts 10-14yrs
Thank you
Mrs Shemwell
Hello,
Barnsley Museums are offering a range of family activities this summer across all of our five sites (Experience Barnsley, Cannon Hall Museum, Cooper Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre and Worsbrough Mill.)
The majority of the activities are free, and our sites are free to enter.
Please could you share these with parents and carers at your school?
Many thanks,
The Barnsley Museums Learning Team
UPLIFT
Thursday 25th until Saturday 27th July, 11am – 4.30pm
Rotherham Town Centre
UPLIFT returns to Rotherham town centre for its third year, delivered by Rotherham Council in partnership with Flux Rotherham, Children’s Capital of Culture and Rotherham Music.
The festival will transform the town centre with a full programme of urban sports activities, music, dance, art and more.
Roller Girl Gang will return with their exciting and fun roller rink in All Saints’ Square, and we look forward to welcoming back The House Skate Park too who will offer skateboarding instruction and advice, plus amazing demos to inspire you.
Rotherham BMX will be bringing a pop-up BMX, skate and scooter park and new for this year Nova City will be joining us bringing parkour and street dance to add to the amazing mix of activities!
This popular FREE event for young people will also include a live music stage with a programme of brilliant performances, contemporary dance company SAY with their show The Album: Skool Edition, Rotherham United Community Trust and more!
Facebook event page link – https://www.facebook.com/events/1520100578939725/
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Year 5 have been studying the abstract art movement and the work of Kandinsky. We have read The Noisy Paintbox which is an exuberant celebration of creativity. Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPré tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art.
This afternoon, we created our own abstract pieces and shared our creative session with our grown ups. A productive afternoon was had by all and we were so pleased with how much the adults enjoyed sharing this time with our Year 5 children.
This afternoon, Year 5 had a workshop session with Taiye from the Red Cross. He explained to us about the role of the British Red Cross. We talked about the key vocabulary of empathy, migration, refugee and asylum seeker. We learned that empathy is the ability to imagine, understand and share the feelings or perspectives of others. By developing empathy, it can help us increase our awareness and understanding of others, our willingness to support others, and create more inclusive, resilient communities.
We listened to the account of Hamza’s journey as he was seeking asylum and wrote a feeling story and thought about how we would feel if we were in Hamza’s shoes. We also wrote a letter to someone who was new to our country.
As our final task, we considered if we were to do one thing differently about how we treat others from today, what could we do?
Many of the children had some very thoughtful ideas about what we had been working on and were a credit to St Alban’s as always.
During our end of day prayer, Esme said she had chosen The Ukraine as our place in the world to focus our thoughts because she had chosen a prayer that she believed was fitting. I hope you agree with Esme’s choice.
Prayer for the Afraid
Dear God,
Take care of those who live in war zones:
Afraid of noise,
afraid of silence:
Afraid for themselves,
afraid for others:
Afraid to stay,
afraid to go:
Afraid of living,
afraid of dying.
Give them peace in their hearts,
in their homes
and in their land.
Amen
