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!

Today we thought about who was in our family and how all families are different!

We linked this to Article 9 ‘ The right to be with a family who cares for us.’

Pupils then drew members their family who lived with them.

Today a small group worked with Miss Molteno to talk about United Nations and their goal of taking climate action. They also discussed how this impacts on them and their human rights (Article 12 the right to have a say and Article 24, the right to a clean and safe environment).

Article 24- we have the right to a clean and safe environment.

Today we talked about COP26 and what it was.

We then thought about ways in which we can start to help our planet. We decided to design a bag for life. The pupil’s came up with some great designs.

This week year one we’re Eco class of the week as we have been very good at recycling and remembering to turn off the lights and close the blinds when we leave the classroom. As a reward we exercised our right to play and have fun, having some extra time on the play equipment in the sunshine.

We all had a wonderful time 😊

As part of Anti-bullying week we all wore odd socks to school and talked about ‘One Kind Word.’ It sparked discussions about tolerance and respect for all our differences.

We watched CBeebies Live Lesson and found out about the different roles involved in bullying, what bullying is and how to help ourselves and others.

We then made our own Anti-bullying posters and linked it to Article 19- the right to be protected from being hurt and mistreated.

Today year one watched the NSPCC video Pantosaurus and talked about the poster that we have displayed in our classroom. We talked about what each letter of ‘PANTS’ stands for and how we can keep our bodies safe.

Over the last couple weeks we have been reminding ourselves of our rights ( article 42).

We have been improving our indoor and outdoor classroom environment and ensuring we have had time to play and rest ( article 31).

Article 26: children and young people should get financial support from the government when their parents or guardians are unable to provide them with a good enough standard of living by themselves.

Today the children came to school in non-uniform to raise money for Red Nose Day. We talked about the help that the charity gives to others and how the money raised might be used. We enjoyed sharing our jokes in our weekly celebration assembly and we wanted to share some of our best jokes with you too. We hope they make you laugh!

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In Year One we wore odd socks to school to support anti-bullying week. We talked about how important it is to recognise that everyone is different and that those differences should be celebrated. We wore our odd socks with pride and even designed our own pairs of odd socks!

We talked about how we should treat one another and the types of behaviour that are unacceptable and what we should do if we feel unhappy about how we are being treated by others. We designed our own puzzle pieces showing ways we could be kind to each other and look after one another.