Our education should help us use and develop our talents and abilities. It should help us learn peacefully, protect our environment and respect other people.

In year one we have been settling into our new class and thinking about how we can ‘reach for the stars’ throughout the year. We read ‘ How to catch a star’ by Oliver Jeffers and thought about how our goals and aspirations are like stars. We thought about the things we want to achieve throughout the year and how we need to behave in order to achieve our goals.

We completed some artwork to display in the School to remind us that we can achieve anything we set our minds to!

As a forerunner to the new P.S.H.E. scheme, Jigsaw, the children have been looking at the United Nations rights for children that apply to their environment at school. As a result, they now have their ‘Class Charter’, for which they have selected three rights they deem particularly relevant. These rights have then been interpreted specifically for school, so that everyone can be clear about their entitlement. The charter, moreover, also includes a set of behaviours that link to the class rules. These have been chosen to help to maintain a harmonious environment, and all children are expected to try to demonstrate these at all times.

This week we explored the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child looking at all the rights children have. We then used the articles as a base to create a class charter to guide us each day in how we can support each other’s rights. 

We write how we would suppoort each other on paper hands before decorating them.