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Easebourne Primary School
School Debate Recently, we held our first debate of the year. The motion was that this house believes that parents and carers should not allow children to be exposed to books, games or films that have age-ratings older than the children’s ages. Arguing for the motion were Megan, Jem and Nate. Arguing against were Margot, Sian and Grace. Once an initial vote had been taken, a range of interesting points was made by the speakers. Megan produced strong research evidence which linked emotional distress in young children to exposure to violent media whilst Margot countered by saying that parents and carers knew their children best. Nate explained how Pan European Game Information (PEGI) and the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) arrived at their ratings and he pointed out that the BBFC were very experienced at this task, having been in existence for over a hundred years! Grace made the case for a sensible parental approach, suggesting that par
ents should read the blurb or reviews, or even sample the film or game first before making up their mind about its suitability. Jem educated the audience, explaining how the game Fortnite (12) worked and urging parents to think twice before letting their children play it. Finally, Sian reminded us that ratings change over time and pointed out today’s children would be surprised by how tame the films were that their parents had watched themselves as children. There were then questions from the floor which the
children answered as teams before the two captains, Megan and Margot, summed up. In the second vote, there was a gain of three votes for Megan’s team and the motion was carried. All six speakers did well and, between them, they helped the audience understand just how complicated this issue is. Inset Day Friday 14th February 2020 Half Term 17th February - 21st February 2020 Johnny Culley, Headteacher. For more information please visit www.easebourne.w-sussex.sch.uk
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Over the last couple of years school budgets have been discussed many times by the media. There is no doubt that schools are having to be more creative with their budgets, redundancies or not replacing people who have left have occurred and schools are doing amazing things in order to ensure the standard of the children’s education is better year after year. As the new year starts every school in the country will be ensuring that their budget is used to its maximum. At Petworth we have a superb Petworth Primary School Association (PPSA), which offers many different opportunities to our children, adults and families throughout the year. All of these help raise funds for our school, which are used for school trips, IT equipment, books, school minibus etc. However it is more than just raising money as they offer vital learning opportunities for our children. This can be seen when our year six children create and run their own stalls at our fairs, children help to organise film nights, count the money, create the programmes and much more. These skills give the children real life experiences which they can build upon in the future. As with every parent-teacher association (PTA), our PPSA are always looking for different ways the community can help raise money for our school where every Petworth C of E Primary School funds
Although rivalry isn’t by any means a major part of Sixth Form life, every two weeks the inter-form competitions most definitely bring out the competitive streak in all of us. The task of organising this activity is given to each tutor group in rotation, meaning that the actualities of the competition vary vastly each time. We have had the ‘Cracker Challenge’, requiring the participants to eat as many crackers as they can in the space of a minute; the longest paper chain challenge, an excellent way to decorate the Sixth Form common room; and my personal favourite: the Play-Doh challenge, in which we had a list of objects to create masterpieces of in a short amount of time. Not only are these competitions a pleasant relief from the stresses of A levels, but create a wonderful sense of team spirit within the Sixth Form. Seeing everybody working together, albeit against another team, brings the sense of community that we know well here from our younger years. So, although we no longer partake in sports days and music competitions alike, we still have that team-spirit very much alive in our school careers which is so important for us to work in harmony towards our end-goal of fantastic exam results in the Summer. By Sophie Cook, Year 13. www.mrc-academy.org Midhurst Rother College
penny goes towards offering our children different experiences.
By using “easy fundraising” you can raise free donations for Petworth CofE Primary School every time you shop online! 4,000 shops and sites will donate, so you can support us when you're doing your everyday shopping, holidays, your seasonal shopping, or buying anything else at no extra cost to yourself. Therefore please use www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ causes/petworthprimary and every penny raised will go towards an experience for our children. If you shop online please go via this website and I would love it if you chose Petworth CofE primary School, but you could chose any charity which would be grateful for any support. Every time you shop online it may only be pennies but these do add up and remember it does not cost you anything. Our PPSA is just one way volunteers help in our school. We have members of the community read with our children, we have members of staff running free clubs before and after school (12 last term), however the biggest challenge for schools at the moment is their budget. Above is just one way you could help your local school. Thank you! John Galvin, www.petworth.w-sussex.sch.uk
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