Today we celebrated Marvellous Me day and wore clothes that make us happy. We discussed why we should celebrate this and how we are all unique. This links to Article 8 – You have the right to an identity and article 12 – You have the right to give your opinion.

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Article 12 – You have the right to give your opinion and for adults to listen and take it seriously.

This week in English, Year 2 have been voting on how we can change the materials in our Three Little Pigs story. As a class using a fair voting system, we chose a weak material, slightly stronger material and a really strong material. We discussed this and linked it in with our rights and British Values.

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This week in our PE lesson we have completed a challenge for Children in Need. Joe Wicks has challenged us to complete 1000 burpees and we have smashed it! We discussed the Children in Need charity and why it is so important. We linked this to our Rights. You can sponsor the Year 2 classes via JustGiving!

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For our first week back, in Year 2 we have been discussing our Rights and Responsibilities. We devised our own class charters and came up with rules for everybody to follow to ensure we stay happy, safe and healthy. We signed our class charters by decorating hands with how we can be kind on each finger.

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This week, Year 2 have been on a school trip to Stover Country Park, to tie in with our LCC learning about healthy eating and plants. This links to Article 29 – Your education should help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people. At Stover, we discussed the importance of protecting the environment, including all of the plants, trees and other habitats.

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This week in Year 2, we have started learning a friendship song in Music. We discussed the meaning of some of the words and phrases in the song and why it is so important to be kind to our friends, and everybody! We linked this to Article 15 – the right to choose our own friends and join or set up groups, as long as it isn’t harmful to others. For example, being compassionate and tolerant and not leaving anybody out if they have different views to us.

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This week in Year 2, we have been thinking about Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent. As a school, we are focusing on 40 Days of Kindness. We have a Kindness Tree in our classroom and every time somebody goes above and beyond to be or do something super kind, we add it to our tree. This links in to Article 15 where we have the right to choose and play nicely with our friends and Article 19 where we have the right to be protected from being hurt in body or mind.

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Today the community police officers visited and did an assembly to our KS2 children. They talked about their role in the community, how they keep everyone safe and how to be safe online. The children then had the chance to ask any questions. Article 40: I have the right to get legal help and to be treated fairly if I have been accused of breaking the law. This also links to our Christian Value this half term of Justice   
 

Article 31 and Article 5

Today was break the rules day! We dressed how we wanted to express ourselves, and chose activities to express ourselves too! We learned about rules and why they are in place, and then we broke some! 

   
    
 

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.