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• What Can I Do? Project with Arsenal in the Community

  Fri 27 Nov 2020
  Pupils in Year 5 have been very fortunate to be selected by Arsenal in The Community to be part of a Social Action Project called 'What Can I Do?'. The project is aimed at 

  • Educating young people in our community on the subject of race 

  • Encouraging a sense of personal responsibility 

  • Helping to promote change and support young people in taking a leading role in this change

  The project is being delivered over 5 weeks. Last week was the introductory workshop with Arsenal in the Community coaches discussing the concept of Social Action, sharing examples of Social Action Projects and developing the pupils understanding of how they can make a difference in their school and/or local community. This week, Year 5 worked with special guest, external facilitator, called Jordan Jarrett-Bryan. Jordan is a journalist for Channel 4 News and the host of an online discussion platform which focuses on race called “It’s All Blakademic”.  Jordan brought an enormous amount of knowledge and expertise on this topic and his insight was extremely valuable to this programme. The session focused on celebrating diversity, the importance of learning black history and what it means to be anti-racist. Alongside Jordan, a local artist named Stazzy took part in the workshop. His role was to capture the thoughts, views and experiences of those involved and from them, he will create a mural which we hope will be displayed on the Emirates Stadium concourse as a permanent feature. 

  The project will continue over the coming weeks to develop the social action project with pupils taking the learning, ideas and thoughts from discussions and workshops to identify a cause/issue they want to raise awareness of or challenge at school/their local community and take action to positively impact it.

  The programme will be encouraging all of those involved to ask themselves What Can I Do? as well as What Can We Do? and to get their peers asking the same question.

   

  • This is a call to action and we hope that the social action projects that are created as part of this programme will be meaningful and empowering to those involved.

   

  • Pupils will work alongside Arsenal Coaches once a week to plan and develop their plans for action.

  

• Remembrance Day Wednesday 11th November 2020

  Fri 13 Nov 2020
  On Wednesday 11th November at 11am, the whole school gathered in the playground to 

  commemorate Armistice Day, also known as Remembrance Day.

  It marked the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918.

  We respectfully held a two-minute silence  at 11am to remember the people who died in WW1 and who have died in all wars since. We used that time to reflect on the suffering many have endured during the many wars this world has seen, and we concluded with a prayer, praying for peace and end to suffering.

   

   

  

• Black History Month

  Tue 03 Nov 2020
  Pupils in Years 5 and 6 took part in an exciting  workshop run by the Arsenal Primary Stars for Black History Month, last Friday 23^rd October 2020. They took part in the Black History Month themed workshop celebrating and learning about some of Arsenal’s most famous Black players, which included:

   

  • Filmed Q&As with Brendon Batson OBE (Arsenal’s first Black player in the 1970s), Chris Whyte (Islington born Arsenal player from the 1980s) and Paul Davis (1990s Arsenal legend)
  • Discussions on the changes seen both at Arsenal F.C. and London post WW2
  • They took part in BHM themed Literacy activities
  • Interactive tasks and discussions

   

  

• London Sinfionetta comes to Blessed Sacrament School

  Tue 03 Nov 2020

  We were delighted that Blessed Sacrament school  was selected by The London Sinfonietta to take part in an exciting project to work with a composer to produce a piece of music.  

  The last few months have seen people across the globe experience the importance of community, the sense of being part of something and the support and comfort that can bring. The London Sinfonietta, based at Kings Place, celebrated this by commissioning a series of four new portrait works inspired by individuals, groups and organisations and they wanted to include an Islington Primary School to inspire one of these new works!

   Each new piece of music reflected the stories and experiences of the past few months and the individuals or organisations who mean a lot to a community. At Blessed Sacrament school, the composer, Yshani Perinpanayagam worked with pupils from Years 5 and 6, on their lockdown experience to translate it into a piece of music, performed on the trombone! It was premiered in our playground  by a London Sinfonietta musician in our community setting to celebrate the importance of live performance and share new music with new audiences. 

   Here are some pictures of the 15 minute performance of the new piece which  involved four members of the London Sinfonietta (the performing musician, the composer, a member of the Learning team and a camera person). The filming of the performance included capturing footage of pupils and  interviewing a couple of the pupils to share on the London Sinfionetta digital channels. 

  Watch the performance here:

  https://londonsinfonietta.org.uk/community-commissions-4