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Our Year Five Rights Ambassadors decided hey wanted to write a letter to local businesses asking for seed domations. They sent their letter and got responses from B&Q and Otter Nurseries- Jack’s Patch! Thanks to B&Q we have over 2000 seeds to plant and (pictured below) are some amazing seed bombs and wild flower packets from Jack’s Patch!

Thank you to both businesses and well done to our ambassadors.

  

“I have the right to relax and have fun” Reception children were all really excited to return to school to see all their friends and teachers after the half term break. We started our new project on Minibeasts with a surprise…. our teachers had bought in some locusts and crickets for us to observe. Then we had another delivery and it is tiny caterpillars. We are looking forward to watching how they change into butterflies. We also have Barry the African snail to observe. We have been painting our favourite minibeasts and learning to double using spots on butterflies and ladybirds. We have been sorting minibeasts and have made play dough snails! It has been great fun and an exciting start to our new topic!

Article 12- cake sale

Three children from Year Four decided that they would like to hold a cake sale to raise money for the RSPCA. They were really sad to hear about dogs that had been adopted during the pandemic and abandoned by owners who could not care for them. 

They therefore baked some cakes and sold them within the Year Four bubble to raise an amazing £62!

If you have any ideas you would like to put in place, talk to your teacher and make it happen. 

   

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Year 6 have been thinking about our right to care for and respect our environment. In English, our balanced arguments have discussed the effects of human intervention on the world, affecting wildlife habitats, oxygen levels and global warming. 

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Every child has the right to a say in matters that affect them. Year Four have been working on this right recently by writing to Kingsteignton Council about bee highways and saving our environment. The result so far is that Kingsteignton Council have built a giant bug hotel on Rydon Lane! Have a look out for it if you are in the area!

Comic Relief 2021

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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Red Nose Day

On Friday 19th March, it was Red Nose Day and the theme was using the ‘power of funny’. In Year Four we all wrote down our favourite jokes and shared them throughout the day which was fun. This year we raised money for Comic Relief by having a non-uniform day. Children could come into school in non-uniform in exchange for a small donation of money online to help support children less fortunated than themselves. This links to Article 26 of the children’s rights charter:

Article 26 of the UNCRC says that 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.

Tree planting

This week we have begun planting the trees that were donated to us by New Wood Ltd following a letter written by our Rightys Ambassadors. The trees are a reminder of the effects of climate change and what we can do as Global Citizens to support the efforts around the world to stop this. In Year Six, the children planted two Silver Birch trees. Hey discussed the importance of looking after them and the impact they will have on th environment.

Article 12- the right to a say in things that affect us.

  

 
that affect us.