Today in assembly we spoke about commination and communicating.  We spoke about how it is important that we talk to and listen to each other in respectful ways. We can use our voices to communicate, we can respond and communicate using body language and facial gestures. We spoke about active listening and not getting distracted when someone is speaking to you. We have had a lot of people saying things to each other for a joke recently when it actually isn’t a joke and it has hurt people’s feelings so we spoke about things not always seeming like joke to everyone and how everyone understanding and interprets things differently. We also spoke about the tone in which we communicate with others being important and how this is interpreted.

As well as face to face communication, online communication was also spoken about. Using appropriate language and remembering that what you put in a chat or email can be traced and we need to be very careful and safe when communicating on line through gaming, chat room or in group chats. We will look at cyber safety further on safer internet day on 11th February.

Final message was about remembering once words are out of mouths they can’t go back and similarly words online create a digital footprint and we need to stay safe.

Awards were given out to day for a variety of reasons as always. It was great to hear about the fantastic writing happening across the  school, pupils showing resilience and commitment to learning, pupils being kind caring members of the class, being a thoughtful friends. Mrs Grey had also noted some great skills in gymnastics this week for her awards winners.

Well done everyone another super week.

 

Andrew and Amy also received their books for winning the P6/7 and P7 Accelerated Reader raffles form Term 2

 

4 Capacities – Successful Learners, Effective Contributors

SHANARRI – Healthy, Achieving, Responsible,Respected

VAlues – Kind ,Committed, Respeonsible