Courageous Advocacy
At Howick, we encourage and support our children to be "courageous advocates". This means they champion causes which are special and meaningful to them. These may be global issues or matters far more personal and closer to home.
We believe this develops resilience, teamwork, courage, independence and an understanding of the wider world and how they can help make it a better place, enabling our children to flourish.
Luke Wallace and Lancashire Hertitage Visit
We were lucky enought to be chosen to take part in a Lancashire Heritage visit with Luke Wallace.
Luke is an inspirational Canadian singer, songwriter, choral arranger and public speaker. He uses his platform to champion environmental causes and inspire positive change.
During his visit, Class 3 took part in a day of environmentalism-themed singing, lyric analysis, songwriting, working on a collaborative song between the other four schools involved in the project. Luke will introduced the concept of folk music, protest songs and activism which complemented and enriched our courageous advocacy work..
Black History Month 2025
This year, for Black History Month, we learned about Black leaders, pioneers and activists whose courage and contributions have helped shape history. As courageous advocates, we recognise that change is still happening and that we, too, have the power to be changemakers. As part of our Black History Month reflections, we wrote our own pledges to commit ourselves to seeking and creating positive change in our communities.
UK Paliament Week
As part of UK Parliament Week, we challenged our children to learn about the role of Members of Parliament and to become courageous advocates for change by identifying issues within our local area that matter to them. We were delighted to welcome our local MP, Mr Paul Foster, into school. He led an engaging whole-school assembly before visiting each class to answer thoughtful and insightful questions from our pupils.
Mr Foster was impressed by the children’s ideas and suggestions for improving our community and has committed to taking these forward to the relevant people and organisations. We are incredibly proud of our pupils for using their voices confidently and responsibly to influence positive change.
Enrichment Day
As part of our work looking at how to act to help the environment we have had a whole school enrichment day.
Led by Green Up Your Act these workshops brought environmental issues to life through stimulating discussions, engaging presentations, and creative workshops for all of our children.
The workshops included;
Eco fish - Plastic is a part of our daily lives, whether it be a bottle, a straw, or plastic bag, it makes up a large part of the materials we regularly use, When carelessly discarded plastic reaches our seas, it poses a threat to the animals that live there and depend on the oceans for food. Class 1 and 2 explored these issues together.
Bug hotels - In this session, Class 3 explored the reasons why our indigenous wildlife is declining and what we can do about it.
Recycled Notebook Workshop - Small steps can add up to big changes, Class 4 learnt how to reduce our ecological footprint to help maximise our earth's precious resources.
Foxton Centre
Class 4 were visited by representative from the Foxton Centre in Preston who told us about their fantastic work. Inspired by this visit, our Class 4 Courageous Advocates arranged "Toast Fridays," selling toast to raise money for the centre. They also encouraged the whole school to bring in items to make shoeboxes for the homeless people in Preston. In July, our Courageous Advocacy Champions took 17 amazing boxes along with the money raised, all of which were greatly received.
Class 1
Class 1 are so passionate about making changes to save our planet.
The whole school had a Plastics Week, learning about recycling and creating their own artwork from recycled plastic.
Class 2 have created some amazing persuasive leaflets about plastic pollution linking this to their work on courageous advocacy.
Class 3 - Climate Change
Class 3 have found out about the floods in Pakistan by reading articles in First News and watching Newsround.
We decided to find out why the floods had happened and investigated climate change.
The children discussed the impact we are having on the climate and decided on things they were going to do to help.
Change Makers
Class 3 have been identifying people who have made changes.
