Hope Committee and Hope-anuary

05 Feb Hope Committee and Hope-anuary

We have been amazed by all of the wonderful things that the children have done as part of this initiative led by our Y6 Hope Committee. Our ambition was to spread a little hope to others and to remind ourselves to be ambitious, thoughtful and hopeful. As an outcome, we also hoped that we would learn things about ourselves too.

This morning the Y6 hope committee led collective worship in which we shared some examples of acts of hope:

Of course, hope isn’t just for January. Each class has made a commitment to be responsible for one ‘hope focus’:
• YR are going to focus on the target of saving water. They chose this because many children forget to turn off the taps in the YR bathroom. They all think this is something we can work on and stop doing.
• As a class all of Y1’s ideas were around doing something for the school garden to help the environment – they want to build a bug house and do something for the birds to give them food.
• Y2 are committed to making and showing signs of peace e.g. shaking hands after an argument.
• Y3 have made a promise to save water by turning off running taps. They are also going to use their outside area to create a bug hotel. Very exciting!
• Y4 promise not to hold a grudge if they disagree with someone, they made a promise to do this wisely. They have made this choice because it will encourage them to think about what is important. They want to make disagreements smaller and learn how to deal with them properly and independently.
• Y5 have decided to focus on giving compliments to people and also continue their ‘agents of change’ work from Year 4, they will commit to picking up litter.
• Y6 have promised that they will listen to a friend if they are in need of some advice, because they agreed that they should always be available if someone needs help at any time.

Thank you very much to our Hope Committee for being such an inspiration to others.