{"id":41827,"date":"2024-11-28T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pioneerfederation.co.uk\/stmarys\/?p=41827"},"modified":"2025-02-09T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:20:43","slug":"social-justice-projects-2024-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pioneerfederation.co.uk\/stmarys\/social-justice-projects-2024-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Projects 2024-25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Children\u2019s Personal Development is central to the ethos at St Mary\u2019s. In order to ensure we live out our vision of \u201cbeing the best we can be\u201d we focus on providing opportunities to develop the \u2018whole child\u2019. This is driver behind many of the key priorities across the school as well as central to our work to develop children\u2019s spirituality. We seek out opportunities to help children think \u2018beyond themselves\u2019 and in the context of our Church of England foundations; for children to consider their relationship to the world around them, as well as to develop a relationship with God.<\/p>\n

For this reason, at St Mary\u2019s we have a large focus on providing opportunities for courageous advocacy for our children and for them to develop their experience of being involved in social justice initiatives.<\/p>\n

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Each class has taken on a \u2018social justice\u2019 project this year:<\/p>\n

Maple Class (EY) are linking with the elderly in the village to reduce loneliness by attending regular village lunches to sing songs and perform poems and share their terms learning.<\/p>\n

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Cherry Class (Year 1\/2) have adopted an elephant called Toto through a link with one of our governors and parents at Sheldrake Reserve in Australia.<\/p>\n

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Willow class are working with our volunteer Mrs Rowberry who runs our lunchtime club \u2018wild life explorers\u2019 to follow the \u2018Better Planet Schools\u2019 project. This term they have focused in on Endangered animals and will later on in the year will be working with the \u2018Children\u2019s Forest\u2019 team and a local land owner to develop a Community Orchard in Hartfield.<\/p>\n

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Lilac Class have connected with the organisation \u2018Starfish Malawi\u2019 run by Chris Knott. They have linked with their link school in\u00a0Mikute LEA. They have already met with Chris Knott (the founder of Starfish Malawi) and discussed ways to begin to link up with the children at Mikute school and get to know what life is like for them.<\/p>\n

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Watch this space for more information! If you would like to know more about Starfish Malawi, please visit their website: starfishmalawi.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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