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• Thanks to ASDA!

  Wed 14 Feb 2018 Mrs Cox-Wall

  Thanks so much to the ASDA Foundation, Rachel from the Bridgend store and Katy's gran who organised a green token collection for us in November. We have been awarded £500 and it is now up to to pupils how we spend it! Some ideas have been TVs for the common rooms so we can watch films or use games consoles in weekly reward time. School Council will have the final choice... watch this space and for some lovely photos of the big cheque from Ms.Caswell.

  UPDATE: photos attached!

  

• Safer Internet Day and a busy week!

  Fri 09 Feb 2018 Mrs Cox-Wall

  As part of Safer Internet Day, PC Beaumont came into the Bridge to do a series of workshops with all KS3 and 4. The theme this year is "create, connect and share respect" and the workshop on "risky pics" was very engaging and useful to all the pupils. Thanks to PC Beaumont for her valuable time.

  Y10 Duke of Edinburgh students have also been busy this week and have been working on their skills section, learning how to cook basic meals. This bacon pasta bake with cheese looks like it was going to be delicious... but somehow I didn't get to taste it, so I'll never know!

  And finally, well done to KS2 pupil C who achieved her level 7 certificate in Lexia Reading! Improved comprehension, word family work and the silent e in words. Great work everyone!

  

• Tackling Islamaphobia Rights Mission

  Sat 03 Feb 2018 Mrs Cox-Wall

  The Bridge Super Ambassadors joined in the webinar with Sally Holland, the Children's Commissioner for Wales on the important issue of tackling Islamaphobia on Friday 2nd February. 

  The CC has released a short film about the experiences of Muslims in Wales and some of the negative things they have to face including name calling, stereotyping, fear of attack and discrimination from people of all ages. The film was presented by young Muslim people themselves.

  Y10/11 pupils watched this in form time and used some of the published resources to frame their thoughts and feelings about what they had seen. Some question ideas were discussed and these were then put forward by our Rights Ambassadors (Mali-Anne and Gwen, with Jack standing in for Gwen on this occasion). Many of our questions were read out and ideas and responses discussed during the webinar on Friday, including "does racism start at home?" and "what can I say to my siblings about Muslims and how they are different?"

  Some of our questions were also asked and then discussed further in the Welsh Medium webinar that followed.

  This was a very valuable experience for us all and we certainly must thank Emily for her help with the form time activities, Jack for the technical help and Mrs Morriss for supporting pupils during the webinar.

  The final part of this particular mission is our ambassadors teaching the KS2 pupils on Monday about this sensitive topic. We look forward to it! Gwaith gwych, da iawn i gyd!