Hopeanuary 2026

11 Feb Hopeanuary 2026

Once again, we have been thinking about ways in which we can spread hope to others around us during the month of January.

We are overjoyed to read about the wonderful hopeful acts across the school. Here are just a few to share. Children across the school enjoyed are most proud the following Hopeanuary achievements:

• Being able to run a mile
• Doing a forward roll in the water
• Being picked to play for my football team!
• Putting my face into the water after a long time feeling worried about it
• Making a playlist for friends and family – songs on one particular playlist included ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams, ‘I’m Still Standing’ by Elton John, ‘Beautiful Things’ by Benson Boone
• Lots of clean up mission – brilliant to see children tidying up at home, and helping with jobs e.g. making beds, dusting, putting laundry into the washing machine, emptying the dishwasher
• Letting out friends go before us
• Trying rock climbing for the first time and being really brave
• Doing lots of creative projects using things that would have been thrown away, including making a laptop out of paper and a hopeanuary hoover!
• Planting seeds as this teaches hope and patience, and as one child wisely said ‘our planet also needs more plants than buildings’. One child also grew (and ate) herbs!
• Being a secret helper and doing kind things without being asked or noticed
• Making cards for family members who have been going through difficult times
• Singing and dancing to make people smile, and playing some of my family’s favourite songs on the piano
• Giving toys to charity – one of our families even took some of their own toys to Barnet Hospital children’s ward. One of the children wrote ‘It filled my heart with love. Helping children who are sick and giving them something that makes them happy is the best thing!’ 
• Lighting candles and saying prayers in church
• Ice skating for the first time!
• Picking up litter in the park to help protect dogs and birds
• Tried new foods
• Picking up heave back so grandma doesn’t have to!
• Learning times tables and doing well with phonics and reading
• Being brave at medical appointments
• Adding to a kindness jar which reminds us to be kind

A lovely quote too:

Happiness is my family!

The children had some really hopeful ideas about what the future could look like too. Here a few ideas:

• ‘My hope is that the world is kinder, more peaceful and fairer for everyone’
• ‘I hope that people say please and thank you in the world’
• ‘I can be kind and help my family’
• ‘I think we will have flying cars!’

We even had a special and real life story of hope, written all about a very frightening time in a family’s life, in which courage and hope prevailed. We have always held on tightly to hope that good news would come for this family 🙂