St Finbar’s Buddies was established in September 2018, as part of social and emotional development, to:
The group inspires a positive, calm and happy atmosphere.
Congratulations to the children who succeeded in their Buddy applications.
Each class has two Buddies who take turns to be on duty every single playtime and lunchtime. Their job is to ensure all children are happy on the yard and have friends to play with. They deal with minor disputes and encourage others to talk through their disagreements to reach a compromise and ultimately to make friends. Buddies do a great job everyday, giving up their own break times to help others. They receive full training in the half termly meetings they attend, showing great commitment and dedication. We are very proud of you all. Keep up the great work!
A new exciting initiative is being bought into life at St Finbar’s to support school council and children’s oracy skills. Miss Summers held our training during the school council meeting to show us how to use the Smart School Councils tool. Our meetings will now focus around one key question and will be held every week in class.
Our KS2 school councillors and upper KS2 school buddies were invited to join a webinar that was held with schools across Liverpool to discuss their understanding of mental health and if they know what is available to support school if needed. The children were given the opportunity to talk about and consider now people need different types of support.
Our School Buddies have now been elected and every class has two buddies who they can turn to for support and help during playtimes. To help the school buddies feel ready in their new role they have under taken some training with Miss Summers. They worked on being approachable and what that means. They also developed an understanding of looking out for unkind behaviour on he playground and how to support children and when to inform and adult.
