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• Sustainable Development Goals with the "Size of Wales" charity

  Fri 17 May 2019 Mrs Cox-Wall

  This week we welcomed Nigel Little from "The size of Wales" charity. He came to talk to us as part of our work on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which is in turn part of our journey to Rights Respecting Gold status. We are raising awareness and understanding of the need to meet these SDGs so everyone can live in peace, safety and without fear or illness. We aim to contribute to the awareness raising and in practical ways such as the event today.

  Nigel explained how his charity works to re-forest areas of developing countries like Uganda and show people how to live more sustainable lives.

  By donating money to the charity, which we raised in school by growing and selling tomato plants for 50p each (bargain!) then we can help plant at least 20 trees to re-forest a part of another country and hopefully contribute to creating a re-foresting the "size of Wales".

  Well done to everyone who helped grow and look after the tomato plants, who made posters and organised their sale, overseen by Mrs Morris and Mrs Paice.

  Nigel was appreciative of the donation and no matter how small, every penny has power!

   

  

• Spooky Sagas

  Thu 09 May 2019 Mrs Cox-Wall

  Three of our KS2 pupils (who have now reintegrated into their mainstream schools) have had their "Spooky Sagas" published by Young Writers Wales. Their original stories were all their own work and show how much they developed in their time in The Bridge. 

  Great work, lets hope there are more to come!

  

• Surf Therapy with the Wave Project

  Thu 09 May 2019 Mrs Cox-Wall

  What a great start to our summer term!

  All of KS3, both BESD and MAPHR provisions had the opportunity today to attend the Surf Therapy course in Rest Bay Porthcawl and begin to learn surf skills. 

  Staff and pupils felt that tingly nervous feeling as it was new to nearly everyone, I'm proud to say everyone who wanted to go in the water did, got wet and tried amazingly hard! Some pupils felt comfortable observing today and will join in next week, such a great effort from everyone and thanks to our instructors, safe and fun!

  What are the benefits? 

  From the Wave Project website:

  "Impact and evaluation has been embedded in The Wave Project since day one. All our programmes evaluate wellbeing change from a participant and whole-group perspective. Every young person who has ever taken part in one of our programmes has completed a questionnaire before and after their course to tell us how it affected them. These client questionnaires use validated items to ensure they are accurate and robust. We also work with parents and referral partners to get their perspectives on changes to the children we support.

  In the past 10 years, we have gathered information from over 3,000 young people in the UK, so have a large dataset measuring change across 17 measures of wellbeing including self-esteem, resilience, confidence, social trust, positive functioning and friendships."

  Looking forward to next week!

  www.waveproject.co.uk