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Creative Education that Empowers and Embraces All Uniting the World in Peace

Terrace Road Primary School, Swansea is committed to placing the vision and message of Peace Mala at the heart-centre of its values system.

School Name: Terrace Road Primary School

Date of Submission: 2021 Award Aimed For: Silver

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AREA ONE

Becoming a Peace Mala School is part of the whole School Development Plan approved by staff and the Governing Body. This is shared with the whole school community. During every academic year, a chosen year group will study and explore Peace Mala by using the kits and educational materials. This encourages Peace Mala continuity in the school curriculum and ensures that every pupil will have encountered the message and vision of Peace Mala before they leave the school. The school will also share good practice with other schools who are members of the global community of Peace Mala.

Evidence

Peace Mala has been developed as a whole a school approach at Terrace Road. In 2019 Terrace Road Primary School was delighted to be awarded the Bronze Peace Mala award. All staff have attended training in Peace Mala, led by Ruth Castle, and all staff wear Peace Mala’s and remind children of the golden rule. Regular Peace Mala updates for staff are provided by the Co-ordinators Ruth Castle and Stephanie Dalton via email and during weekly afterschool staff meetings. The Peace Mala message is included during topic and curriculum planning training days with all staff.

Peace Mala is embedded into our School Development Plan and has been included as a standing action, to show an ongoing commitment to the Peace Mala message. Our Peace Mala lead has presented to Governors and parents about the development of Peace Mala at our school. Peace Mala was explained to our parents at parents evening and a leaflet about Peace Mala was made and distributed too.

We have a Peace Mala notice board at school, which is regularly updated with news about what the Peace Pals have been doing and giving information about Peace Mala. Our school website is regularly updated to reflect the work of Peace Mala and our Bronze Award. We also use Twitter to give updates about Peace Mala and use the hashtag ♯TRPpm. This has been especially beneficial during the home learning period, to ensuring during these challenging times we were able to stay connected with our community and share the positive messages and work our children have been enjoying in relation to Peace Mala.

To ensure that all of the children in the school are aware of Peace Mala, regular assemblies and competitions are held to generate discussion around Peace Mala. To

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ensure we continue our regular assemblies despite social distancing restrictions, assemblies have been able to take place via Microsoft Teams video calls each week and pre-recorded assemblies shared via the Seesaw learning platform. These have been a wonderful way for children to stay connected and share their thoughts on the Peace Mala messages.

Attached are copies of posters and information created by children, which are displayed around our school.

Our school has made links with Penllagaer Primary School, Haford Primary School, Central Primary School in Swansea. We have also established a friendship with the first American school to receive the award, Sunrise Academy in Florida.

We are always looking for ways to promote Peace Mala at Terrace Road. Our Peace Pals had a fantastic time selecting the winners of our poster competition. We had over 50 entries. The winners were given Peace Mala bracelets. All of the posters have been displayed around our school.

It was a hard choice to select only 10 Peace Pals from all of the wonderful applicants. We have two Peace Pals from each year group from Year 2 to Year 6. We have regular meetings about how to promote the message of Peace through our school.

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Our beautiful Peace Mala notice board keeps everyone up to date of any Peace Mala news and explains what our busy Peace Pals have been up to.

We have regular special assemblies at Terrace Road Primary School.

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Peace Mala is an ongoing commitment illustrated through the School Development Plan.

We provide regular communication

updates to our families via our active Twitter feed. We use the hashtag #TRPpm across the school to identify our Peace Mala

activities.

Our school website is regularly updated to show our work towards our Peace Mala accreditation. https://www.terraceroadprimary.co. uk/peace-mala/

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AREA TWO

By engaging with Peace Mala the school is committed to education for global citizenship through the promotion of understanding, respect, friendship, tolerance and peace between all communities, cultures and enlightened, compassionate faiths. Peace Mala promotes and encourages community cohesion.

Evidence

Peace Mala is taught as part of the curriculum in Key Stage 2. Peace Mala curriculum created and taught to the following year groups; 2017-2018 – Year 3 and 4, 2018-2019 – Year 3, 2020-21 – Year 4. Children have made and wear the Peace Mala bracelets and follow the golden rule as part of our restorative approach at Terrace Road. Lessons are taught which reinforce the golden rule frequently.

Our staff also wear Peace Mala’s and regular Peace Mala assemblies are held to teach of the golden rule and to read from the Peace Mala Prayer book. Our Head teacher has held assemblies based on the stories The Lion and the Mouse and The Good Samaritan, linking them to the Golden Rule. To ensure the teaching of Peace Mala continues during the Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions, virtual assemblies were shared with the whole school via the platform Seesaw.

Terrace Road School hold weekly meetings which parents are invited to talk about anything they may need support with or to find out more about what the school have been doing. Due to restrictions, for 2020-21 parent communication has been through the class app Seesaw. This has been a fantastic introduction to the school, allowing quick and easy communication. Regular phone call check-ins are arranged, and video call meetings are facilitated. Translators and community support are used to facilitate inclusion.

We hold termly open days for parents where the work we carry out at Terrace Road is shared. Due to restrictions, for 2020-21 parents’ evening meetings have taken place over the phone. Terrace Road Primary was flexible and supportive in communicating with parents, ensuring our positive links with the community remained and became even stronger during these uncertain times. The wellbeing team check in regularly with families, provide them with support and links to external services as well.

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The Peace Mala curriculum has been developed for the children in Year 3 and Year 4.

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Peace Mala Golden Rule message shared with classes.Online teaching of Peace Mala to Year 4, during the covid-19 lock down.

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The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Peace Mala. In the summer term, the children completed Peace Mala questionnaires to talk about their learning.

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Terrace Road is part of the Family and Schools Together programme. FAST programs build relationships among parents, schools, and the community. Multiple families gather once a week for 8 weeks to share a meal and participate in a variety of structured social activities, including music, drawing, family games, children’s sports, and opportunities for parents to interact in activities that apply theory and research. At Terrace Road, FAST has allowed parents and families from different religions and cultures to find out about each other. Each week, a different family provides a meal from their culture for the rest of the groups. Photos can be found on our schools Twitter page.

At Terrace Road, we are passionate about maintaining community links. The children regularly visit April Court Nursing Home and talk to the people there about what we have been doing in our school.

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During the lockdown, community connection has been important for us all. Our pupils have thought about how they can share some happiness with our local community. We created cards for a local care home and our pupils spread messages of positivity in the community through posters.

Our pupils have taken part in the ‘Let’s keep the Mount Pleasant’ competition, to support keeping our local area clean and a nice place to live in.

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The children made their individual Peace Mala’s and spoke about what Peace Means to them.

“Peace means treating everyone the same and always being kind to others,” Niams, Year 4.

Every member of staff at Terrace Road has been involved in the Peace Mala process and been given a bracelet. The staff remind children of the golden rule and use the bracelets to explain about the importance of Peace Mala.

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Each half term our school focuses on a different value – honesty, unity, thoughtfulness, care, perseverance, friendship, love, respect, happiness, responsibility and trust – these values are taught to the children and the children are encouraged to write the name and act of any person who they see showing that value onto different coloured leaves. These leaves are celebrated in assembly then added to our values tree.

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The headteacher and a pupil voice group designed the school Values Mice. These mice each have a name and are linked to one of the school values.

The mice were designed and created by a pupil in Terrace Road.

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Regular Peace Mala assemblies are held with a focus on the Golden Rule. The children learn about Peace Mala from the Peace Mala prayer book.

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Virtual assemblies are shared via the platform Seesaw, to ensure the continued learning of Peace Mala. The benefit of these assemblies being shared via the home learning platform is that families are able to be more involved than they ever have been. We encouraged discussion of the stories and were pleased to receive responses from pupils via Seesaw.

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A few of the children’s responses to the Peace

Mala assemblies shared on Seesaw.

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Communication from Terrace Road to parents and the community via our Twitter page, Seesaw learning app and school app.

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Weekly school newsletter to communicate with parents.

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AREA THREE

By using Peace Mala in the classroom, the school supports human rights and helps prevent bullying and all forms of prejudice.

Evidence

Terrace Road is a very diverse school and we are proud that our children speak 28 different languages between them. We have children from all over the world who attend Terrace Road School and we are fully committed and support human rights and help prevent bullying and all forms of prejudice by teaching Peace Mala at our school. We love celebrating being different, further evidence included below.

Our Restorative Buddies, who are on the playgrounds at break times and lunchtimes, are part of the Peace Mala Council and work in collaboration with the RP buddies to spread the Golden Rule. Our local PC, Paul, came to school on 6th November 2018 to give a talk to the Key Stage 2 children on Hate Crimes.

Annually we support the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ campaign. Our pupils enter the competition and we complete a whole school entry together. This year we created videos from home and compiled them into one fantastic and moving video to celebrate our diversity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWYue5twWxE We had so many wonderful entries from our pupils, celebrating diversity and spreading the Peace Mala message.

We love to celebrate International Women’s Day, learning about important women and celebrating the women around us in school. We also explored with our KS2 children International day of Women in Science, to discuss the exciting STEM career opportunities available for Women.

As a UNICEF Rights Respecting School, it was important for us to take part and learn about the International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Rights Respecting co-ordinators provided training for staff during an after-school meeting. We created a whole school video taking a stand against racism. Many of our pupils took part in a peaceful protest in school, after creating their own placards. We talked about taking a stand against all forms of prejudice.

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Every year we support Show Racism the Red Card – ‘Every Day Racism’ – please check out our school You Tube channel to see our different video entries.

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These are just a few of the wonderful Show Racism the Red card competition entries from our pupils.

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To see our work on ‘Everyday racism and how to make a difference’ please scan QR code.

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At Terrace Road, we have a school Anti-Bullying Policy and every year we promote Anti-bullying Day and Anti-bullying week at Terrace Road Primary School. More photos can be found on the school’s Twitter page ♯TRPpshe ♯sayno

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We participated in the #StandUpToBullying campaign during home learning. This was a brilliant way to include our families in the conversation about anti bullying.

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We celebrate International Women’s Day by talking about the women that we love, and why they are important to us.

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We celebrated International Day of Women in Science to promote both Women scientist and the brilliant future STEM career opportunities for our pupils.

As a school, we celebrate our differences. In the Foundation Phase we completed ‘We are all different’ work.

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Annually we carry out Remembrance Day activities to remember and give thanks to

those who gave their lives for us.

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Our Restorative Practice Buddies are our playtime and lunchtime buddies who help to manage and resolve conflict.

Our Restorative Practice and Anti Bullying policy can be found on our school website here - https://www.terraceroadprimary.co.uk/policies/

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Watch our whole school video, taking a stand against racism - https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=FOzbu- lotZQ&t=78s

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AREA FOUR

Peace Mala encourages the school to raise awareness of issues of global interdependence and encourages active compassion by learners that will lead to positive changes locally and globally.

Evidence

Through our Peace Mala work, we encourage the school to raise awareness of issues of global interdependence and encourage active compassion by learners that will lead to positive changes locally and globally.

We teach the children about the UNCRC as part of being a Rights Respecting School and we work hard to ensure that our children are compassionate and annually support a variety of charities. Rights Respecting School video and PowerPoint available here http://www.terraceroadprimary.co.uk/rights-respecting- school/. At Terrace Road Primary School we want all children to be the best they can be. We are proud to be a Gold rights respecting school! All the children learn about rights in school, Swansea and around the world. The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) at the heart of a school’s planning, policies, practice and ethos.

A rights-respecting school not only teaches about children’s rights but also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between teachers/ adults and pupils, between adults and between pupils. Being such a diverse school, we also ensure that our children learn about lots of different religions and cultures.

Pupil voice is something that is very important to us at Terrace Road – we even have an International Schools Pupil Voice group. Water Aid has been supported by the children at Terrace Road–further information can be found in Area 6 - RSPCA, Water Aid and Llys Nini Fundraiser.

Terrace Road advocates fundraising for many causes and hosts many sponsored days, fancy dress events and fun activities to raise money for global charities. This includes Children in Need, Comic Relief, Unicef Shoe Share, NSPCC and Sports relief.

We also support local charities that need our help, such as Mathews House, a local homeless shelter and Caer Las, a homeless shoebox appeal.

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We annually support Children in Need and carry out fundraising activities.

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In November 2020 for Children in Need we focused on wellbeing and the #fivetothrive campaign. We recognised the importance of a health mind and body.

One of our wonderful Year 5 pupils raised £180 by making hair accessories and printing Children in Need t-shirts. We raised a total of £460.

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The children in the Foundation Phase decided they wanted to raise money for charity. They researched lots of different charities and decided upon ‘Matthew’s House’ Swansea Homeless Charity. The children opened ‘The Pink Pig Shop’ where they made and sold items to the other children and parents.

At Terrace Road, we support lots of different charities and carry out lots of exciting fundraising days.

In February 2019, the Rights

Respecting Ambassadors collected shoes for Unicef as part of the Shoe Share 2019.

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We annually support Children in need and Comic Relief. In 2019 for Comic Relief, the children sold cakes, played guess the

teacher, pin the nose on the teacher, made quizzes and did face paint and nail painting. For 2021 we had red nose and spoon

races, told jokes, put on talent shows, designed t-shirts and had lip sync battles for the #ShareASmile campaign with Comic Relief.

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Our teachers took part in a TRP version of The Masked Singer, as part of the #ShareASmile campaign for Red Nose Day/Comic Relief. Pupils had to guess which teacher was singing behind the mask.

To watch please click here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKgT7 VJaMpw

Our Rights Respecting Ambassadors worked with Mellon Educate to raise money to buy supplies and build schools in Africa. Our Rights Respecting mascot ‘Riley’ went to Africa to see the work that has been carried out

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In July 2018, £162.48 was raised by the Foundation Phase classes who raised money for NSPCC. There were items that the children had made for sale, fruit lollies and even a human joke machine!

In December 2018 the Peace Pals collected donations from parents and the community for Caer Las homeless shoebox appeal. We made up shoe boxes full of toiletries, essentials and even luxury items. We were overwhelmed with the fantastic response!

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At Terrace Road School we annually support Sports Relief, where we have an active fun day! This year we had a bouncy castle, we played dodge ball children against teachers and carried out various sponsored activities. We made over £250.

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Our staff took part in the Mr. X appeal in December 2020 which helps provide a Christmas present to a local

child in need.

All classes in Terrace Road took part in celebrating World Religion Day in

January 2021. As this was during home learning we could explore World Religion Day through some fun activities and videos, for the whole family to take part in.

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Pupils learn about their UNCEF Children’s Rights through fun lessons and by creating their class charters. These are reviewed halfway through the year by pupils, as they reflect on their rights.

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Riley our Rights Respecting Rhino helps remind us all how our rights are being respected at Terrace Road.

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AREA FIVE

Peace Mala encourages the celebration of cultural, racial and religious diversity through art, music, drama and dance.

Evidence

At Terrace Road School, we regularly hold special assemblies to celebrate a variety of cultural and religious festivals. We feel passionately that the children should be taught about different cultures and festivals and how they are celebrated. We annually celebrate many festivals, however due to Covid-19 restrictions for 2020/21 these have taken place in class. This didn’t stop us from learning and celebrating a whole host of different cultural and religious festivals. We have shared our wonderful learning via Twitter for our friends, families and community to see.

Our school has made links with Swansea Mosque. Children have visited Swansea Buddhism Centre and the Buddhism Centre plan to come to Terrace Road to lead a session in meditation.

The children at Terrace Road have been learning the anthem ‘One Light’ which Miss White has been playing on the piano. A video of the children singing the anthem at our Peace Garden opening can be found at http://www.peacemala.org.uk/accreditation-how-to-apply.php.

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To celebrate ‘One World Week’ 2018 – Year 5 visited LifePoint Church to learn about Christianity, Year 5/6 went to Terrace Road Presbyterian Church of Wales and Year 4 visited Swansea Buddhism Centre.

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Terrace Road is very proud to be a multicultural school where 28 different languages are spoken. We regularly celebrate different cultures and festivals as part of our curriculum in the Foundation Phase and Key Stage 2.

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At Terrace Road, we have held ‘Diversity Day’ which is something that the children decided they wanted to do. Each child is invited to come to school wearing clothes from their nationality and cultures. The children made flags, told stories, carried out dances and shared traditions of their culture and why it is important to them.

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Annually we have day’s which are dedicated to different religious festivals such as; -Yom Kippur, -St David’s Day, -Chinese New Year, -Diwali As well as Christmas, Easter, Ramadan and Eid.

The children enjoyed our assembly about Yom Kippur.

We all dressed up to celebrate St.David’s day concert. Diwali.

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Diwali celebrations across the school.

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During these days we listen to stories and music from the culture, eat different foods,

learn about how the cultures

are celebrated and often make something from that culture too.

To celebrate St.David’s Day

during the lockdown in March 2021, we decided to host a whole week of fun Welsh activities called “Three Cheers for Wales”.

Our Foundation Phase classes

took part in school and KS2 took part from home.

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Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus

was celebrated during home learning through online assemblies and activities. This included making heart shaped

biscuits and salt dough love

spoons.

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The Chinese in Wales Association came and gave

us a special assembly to help us to celebrate Chinese New Year. We listened to Chinese stories, watched a Chinese dance and different musicians even played Chinese music. We even

had a turn of the instruments!

Chinese New Year during the lockdown meant we celebrated in a different style. We had parties on our video calls, drew Chinese dragons, made fortune cookies, learnt the story of Chinese New Year and dress in red.

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Easter celebrations included our annual dress the egg competition and Easter bonnet parade. Many classes also made Easter themed craft and had Easter egg hunts.

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We have a link with a school in Jhag, India where the children of Terrace Road have made bracelets and wrote letters explaining to them what Peace Mala is and what it means to our school. Further literature about Peace Mala was also sent.

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AREA SIX

With Peace Mala the school actively promotes environmental sustainability, healthy eating and respect for all animals and wildlife.

Evidence

At Terrace Road school we actively promote environmental sustainability through being a Platinum Green Flag Eco school. We promote healthy eating by being a Healthy School, our healthy eating team give out rewards for children who have a healthy lunch.

In the Foundation Phase, children have a healthy fruit snack each day and brush their teeth daily. In Key Stage 2 the children have a stall where fruit is sold as a snack each day. (This has been paused due to covid-19 restrictions).

We carry out weekly PE sessions where we learn about our bodies and how best to keep them healthy. Through our weekly forest school activities we show and learn about respect for all animals and wildlife. We have been fortunate enough to have chick eggs at school which each year group took a role in looking after and we also learned how to care for them once they had hatched.

We have focused this year, 2020/21, on mental health. This has been especially important following the long period of home schooling from March 2020- September 2020, then January 2021-March 2021. We have created a ‘5 ways to wellbeing’ plan for our teachers to follow. Each day of the week has a particular focus.

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We have achieved the NQA (National Quality Award for Healthy Schools). We achieved phases 1-6, then were able to apply for the NQA award. We have held that award since 2017 and get reassessed every 2 years to ensure we still uphold the standard of healthy school as we did when we got the award .http://www.terraceroadprima ry.co.uk/healthy-schools/

To keep active during the lockdown period we took part in the #DailyMileAtHome challenge and encouraged our

pupils to get out, have exercise and look after their mental health.

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In school we love P.E and keeping active.

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Regular assemblies are held on the importance of healthy eating and activities are regularly carried out in class.

We have invested in new equipment to make our outdoor learning and break time session active and fun.

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We took part in the UNICEF Outright for Climate change campaign across all year groups.

We annually carry out work on World Mental Health Day and Mental wellbeing fortnight, including the #HelloYellow campaign with young Minds charity.

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We are proud to be a Platinum Green Flag Eco School, as well as a recognised Eco School since 2014. Our Platinum status was rewarded for 2020/21. Evidence can be found at http://www.terraceroadprimary.co.uk/eco- schools/

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At TRP we have Charity Champions who on a half termly basis raise money for different charities. The Charity Champions are a pupil led group from Years 3 - 6. The group meet every two weeks to discuss ways in which we can raise money for good causes. We have decided for this term we will be raising money for the National Autistic Society. http://www.terraceroadprimary.co.uk/charity- champions/

Our pupils like to be eco friendly outside of school too. This pupil received her green eco Blue Peter badge.

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At Terrace Road we are

committed to living a sustainable lifestyle and protecting our environment. As part of this, Year 1 and Year 3 carry out weekly Forest School sessions.

Terrace Road annually carried out activities for Fair Trade Fortnight.

We support the RSPCA , Water Aid and Llys Nini through fundraising. We had had stalls selling fruit salads, ice lollies and jokes.

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AREA SEVEN

With Peace Mala the school encourages Peace Education by forming a School Peace Council and engaging in peace activities.

Evidence

At Terrace Road we have a Peace Council, which is made up of our Rights Respecting Buddies and Peace Pals. As a collective, their role is to spread the golden rule, teach others of the importance of peace and they even show our visitors around our school telling them of all of the important work that we carry out. Assemblies have been held to teach about the Peace Mala prayer book for world peace.

During our inspection in May 2018, Ruth Castle met with the inspectors to talk about the Peace Mala work that is carried out at our school. They were very impressed and said they could see the positive impact that it is having on our children. Unfortunately they were unable to comment on it in the final report, as it has not yet been established in our school for 2 years. We attended the Youth Liturgy for World Peace in Brecon in September 2019.

Creating our Peace Garden has been a huge undertaking for the children at Terrace Road and the finished results are beautiful. We are very proud of our children for all of their hard work.

Each year, we celebrate World Earth Day by carrying out activities in each classroom such as looking at the impact we have on the planet, making promises of how we can protect our world and thinking of more sustainable future.

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World Earth Day

As a school, we celebrated the International Day of Peace –each class shared a PowerPoint about the International Day of Peace which was shared with the children. The children talked about what it means to be peaceful and how we can spread this message of peace to the wider community. We held an assembly on random acts of kindness and the children decided on an act of kindness that they plan to carry out. Year 3 and 4 made beautiful origami peace cranes.

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Since January 2017, Terrace Road has had a specialist teacher, Carol Shepard, deliver mindfulness lesson to KS2 children. Mindfulness and yoga has been taught regularly, by teachers, in the Foundation Phase. We have been fortunate enough to have had a yoga teacher come to school to teacher several sessions of yoga to the children in KS2. The children thoroughly enjoyed this outdoor experience.

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We take part in mindfulness activities frequently such as colouring, drawing and spa days in our Foundation Phase.

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The Peace Pals along with other children at Terrace Road have planned and designed our Peace Garden. The children were given a budget and had to decide the things that were most importantly needed for our Peace Garden. They then had to present decisions to be put forward to Mrs Evans.

Thanks to generous funding from the Arts Council of Wales we were able to have local artist, Katie Kneath, has come to school to create a mural with the children about Peace Mala and what it means to them. This has been displayed in our Peace Garden. This was truly a fantastic project, which the children will remember for a long time to come.

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Peace Garden has been created and we had our grand opening on 27th March 2019. We were fortunate enough to have many of the parents join us, as well as the Lord Left Tennant, the High Sherriff and Mayor of Swansea. Norma Glass did a wonderful job of opening the Peace Garden for us and our children had a fantastic time talking to Norma about all of the Peace Mala work that we carry out at school. It was a very memorable day for us all at Terrace Road. A video of the opening can be found at http://www.terraceroadprimary.co.uk/peace-mala/

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