2022-2023
Teaching Team
Mr. J. Clarke (Lead); Mrs. C. Davies
Planning 2022 -2023
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Community Project
Ruby Learning Zone’s community project sees us work with north-east charity Feeding Families to use our superpower of Fellowship to raise food donations and awareness of food poverty in the local area. We enjoy welcoming Gavin from the charity into school to share with us the issues currently affecting families in our part of the country. We will then work as a learning zone to develop ideas to gather food donations in a way that engages or school and local community.
Superpowers in Action!
Listening to Experience – As part of War Week, Ruby Learning Zone had a video call with “Mrs Five-Oaks”, the great-grandmother of children in school who had lived through WW2 in the occupied Netherlands. The children in Ruby had prepared questions to ask about her experiences after they had done some prior learning about what life was like in the UK. With the help of our translator Saskia, the children were able to ask Mrs Five-Oaks about her life and she gave a fantastic recount of what every day life was like, giving Ruby a perspective on the war from a different point of view.
Awards
Pupils grow, learn and thrive within the positive, nurturing learning environment at Stanhope Barrington C of E Primary School. Celebrating success and effort is an important part of creating a positive and reflective school community and links to our core Christian values (KFC).
In the Ruby Learning Zone, award certificates are given weekly and include: The Ambassador Award (awarded to the pupil that stands out for demonstrating a skill linked to the Superpower), the Dojo Award (awarded to the pupil that has made the most consistent effort during the week) and the Extra Special Award (awarded to the pupil that has stood out for the right reasons such as showing kindness, academic effort and persistence). In addition, every pupil across the Learning Zones is also eligible for whole school awards. Please visit our Celebrating Success section to find out more and to see the weekly winners of each award.
2020-2021
Teaching Team
Mr. J. Clarke (Lead); Mrs. A. Parvin; Mrs. S. Geraghty-Shewan
Planning 2021 – 2022
Superpowers in Action!
Remembrance Day – Ruby Learning Zone displayed our superpower of Fellowship by creating our own poppies and using them to show our respect on Remembrance Day.
During the autumn term we also got to share our superpower by performing a class assembly for the rest of Key Stage 2 where we created posters and a short performance to share the power of being a good upstanding citizen.
War Week – As part of War Week in school, Ruby Learning Zone focused on the home front and how people in Britain were affected by the war. The children learned about rationing and how behaviours had to change due to the impact of being at war. Using a WW2 recipe, the children made their own carrot cookies to see for themselves the adaptations that had to be made due to rationing. Fortunately for them most of them loved the carrot cookies and they are all looking forward to being able to see in the dark.
Our Community Project
For our community project, the Ruby Learning Zone will be learning about food poverty in County Durham and the struggles some families are facing. We will be working alongside Feeding Families and will be starting our project by welcoming them into school for a workshop on June 10th. Following this we will be working throughout the summer term to devise ways of helping the Feeding Families charity and the community they support.
Awards
Pupils grow, learn and thrive within the positive, nurturing learning environment at Stanhope Barrington C of E Primary School. Celebrating success and effort is an important part of creating a positive and reflective school community and links to our core Christian values (KFC).
In the Ruby Learning Zone, award certificates are given weekly and include: The Ambassador Award (awarded to the pupil that stands out for demonstrating a skill linked to the Superpower), the Dojo Award (awarded to the pupil that has made the most consistent effort during the week) and the Extra Special Award (awarded to the pupil that has stood out for the right reasons such as showing kindness, academic effort and persistence). In addition, every pupil across the Learning Zones is also eligible for whole school awards. Please visit our Celebrating Success section to find out more and to see the weekly winners of each award.
