Across the school today, we have been learning Spanish. Kids lingo have come to visit and teach us some new language. We love any opportunity to celebrate different languages from around the world and had a lot of fun learning to rap and sing in Spanish.
The right to nutritious food and clean water
Year 2 enjoyed taking part in an art activity based on Article 24: The right to nutritious food and clean water. Children used their cutting and imagination skills to produce carrots, strawberries, tomatoes, sweetcorn and broccoli for a collaborative whole school display.
Article 31: Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural activities
Today In Year 5, the children enjoyed learning a variety of individual and group balances in our gymnastics lesson. Working with a partner, the children supported one another to develop their skills.
Article 19: You have the right to be protected from being hurt or mistreated, in body and mind.
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.
Article 31: The Right to Rest & Play in Year 5
This is one of the children’s rights that they have no trouble embracing. Within the school day, all children have a lunchtime break during which most will typically both rest and play. In addition, every class has at least one scheduled playtime during the morning, with younger age groups having a further time to rest and play in the afternoon. Still further, there are always short ‘down times’ within the working day at the discretion of the teacher – brain breaks, quiet reading and mindfulness colouring being among the activities that children can engage with.
Article 12
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.
Article 12 – Larch and Maple Class
You have the right to give your opinion, and for adults to listen and take it seriously.
In year 5 in PSHE we have been discussing bullying and how it can take many different forms, and makes us all feel different things. We have all shared ideas and been listened to.
Article 29
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.
