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Peace Mala: Accreditation Self Evaluation Form Creative Education that Empowers and Embraces All Uniting the World in Peace School Accreditation Bronze Award Terrace Road Primary School, Swansea is committed to placing the vision and message of Peace Mala at the heart-centre of its values system. AREA ONE Becoming a Peace Mala School is part of our whole School Development Plan approved by staff and the Governing Body. Peace Mala was presented to Governors. We also had a Peace Mala School Assembly with parents invited. Peace Mala activities are explained in Parents Evenings. The school has a prominent designated notice board and web pages or newsletter which details Peace Mala activities. These activities are reported in assemblies and at Governors’ Meetings as well as being regularly communicated to parents and the wider community. Peace Mala has been developed as a whole a school approach at Terrace Road. Our ten Peace Pals were appointed in February 2018. 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. Peace Mala is embedded into our School Development Plan and 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. Regular letters go out to patents to update them on any Peace Mala news. We also use Twitter to give updates about Peace Mala and use the hashtag ♯TRPpm. 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. Attached are copies of posters and information created by children, which are displayed around our school. Our school has made links with Penllergaer Primary School and Hafod Primary School. 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. 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 Peace Mala assemblies at Terrace Road Primary School. Peace Mala: Accreditation Self Evaluation Form 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. Actions Lessons and activities on Peace Mala are part of the school curriculum. School assemblies focusing on the Golden Rule. 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 and 2018-2019 – Year 3. Children have made and wear the Peace Mala bracelets and follow the golden rule as part of our restorative approach at Terrace Road. 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. 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. We hold termly open days for parents where the work we carry out at Terrace Road is shared. The Peace Mala curriculum has been developed for the children in Year 3 and Year 4. The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Peace Mala. In the summer term, the children completed a Peace Mala questionnaire to talk about their learning. 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 - https://twitter.com/TerraceRoad 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. 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. 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. 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. Peace Mala: Accreditation Self Evaluation Form AREA THREE By using Peace Mala in the classroom, the school supports human rights and helps prevent bullying and all forms of prejudice. Actions 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. Every year we support Show Racism the Red Card – ‘Every Day Racism’ – please watch the video on YouTube from the link. At Terrace Road, we have a school Anti- Bullying Policy and every year we promote Anti-bullying Day at Terrace Road Primary School. Photos can be found on the school’s Twitter page and link to word press ♯TRPpshe ♯sayno As a school, we celebrate our differences. In the Foundation Phase we completed ‘We are all different’ work. We celebrate International Women’s Day in the Foundation Phase by talking about the women that we love, and why they are important to us. In Key Stage 2, we looked at books about inspirational women. Annually we carry out Remembrance Day activities to remember and give thanks to those who gave their lives for us. Our Restorative Practice Buddy’s are our playtime and lunchtime buddies who help to manage and resolve conflict. Peace Mala: Accreditation Self Evaluation Form 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. Actions Terrace Road, 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. Our 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.