PSHCE | Birkwood Primary School

Chancellor’s Job

What would we do? We learnt about the chancellor of the exchequer, the treasury, the Bank of England and the Spring Statement. Just before the chancellor released his decisions, we were asked, “If you could call Rishi...

Standing Together to Support Ukraine

We are standing together to support Ukraine. We reflected on how news of the situation made us...

Ukraine …

We’re dressed in blue and yellow. This is to show that we are thinking of the Ukrainian...

Safer Internet Day

We discussed and shared ideas about using the internet safely, including talking about which sites are suitable for our age. We learned about websites, blogging and the importance of keeping passwords and personal data private....

Philosophically Speaking

This story stimulus inspired a mature and thoughtful session. Kindness, gender equality,...

Keeping our Whole-Body Healthy

Our yoga lesson helped us focus hard on keeping our body and mind...

First Aid – Heart Start

A big thank you to the family centre for coming out to teach our Year 6 children ‘Heart Start’. They learnt lots of valuable and important skills linked to First Aid.

Surprise letters

Today, 14th December, The Meerkats received some surprise letters. The children have been set a...

Ocean Pollution

On Monday (6th December), the Meerkats looked at some shocking images of the plastic pollution...

Care and Concern for Others

The Butterflies loved baking to help school fundraising for Children In Need. We discussed kindness and the importance of having compassion towards others. We agreed that we all have a responsibility to show care and concern for...

One Kind Word!

We hope you enjoy the anti bullying messages. The Butterflies made this film during their ‘Inspired By Tech’ week. All clips have been filmed by the children themselves and they were then guided to create and edit...

We’re Keeping our Minds Healthy!

We made breathing buddies with Natalie and Ellie from Barnsley Family Centres as part of our...