Article 17- we have the right to find information and use the Internet in a safe way.

The internet is a brilliant resource for researching and communicating. We want to be able to use it. We made news reports this afternoon to teach our parents how to stay safe online with us. We also decorated digital footprints and discussed what we do online and how to stay safe doing it. 

Year Six loved being Times Table Rockstars for the day while we were thinking about Article 24 – keeping children safe and happy – and linking this with NSPCC’s Number Day! 

In worship on Monday 3rd February , KS2 talked about justice. Children have a right to be safe. We talked about the right to have food, the right to have water, the right to have a safe home and clothing to keep us warm. These are our basic rights. These things make our world fair. If only the rich people had these rights then there would be a lot of poverty in our world and this is not fair. 

Poppy and Rohan (yr 5 rights ambassadors). 

   
 

You will now see in all of our classrooms that we have our rights in different places- some link to our learning, some link to the resources we provide, some link to our environment. Take a look next time you are in the classrooms and see which ones you can find.  

    
    
 

  

To raise funds for environmental support Sam and his ‘Shark Academy’ team are holding a book sale. They are promoting their cause around school and sending all the funds they raise to WWF. We are proud as a school to give them their chance to have their say and promote a cause that means a lot to them. 

  

To celebrate the birthday of The Convention on The Rights of The Child, and to continue our work for our right of the month- article 1, the right to know and understand our rights- we held a child led afternoon. Our Rights Ambassadors chose a range of activities and every child was able to choose a classroom to spend the afternoon in. We learned about our rig to be creative, our right to rest and play, our right to grow spiritually and mentally and our right to be safe and looked after.

Below are some photos of us enjoying our activities.

   
    
    

 

Article 12- when adults are making decisions that affect you, you have the right to say freely what you think should happen and to have your opinion taken into account.

Each ks2 classroom will now have a notebook where all children can record their ideas for school improvements. Each half term the ambassadors will check it and make a list of things to work on.

In Ks1 the teachers will be collecting ideas from the children throughout the half term and sending them on.

  

Article 2- no on should be discrimated against for any reason.

Our rights ambassadors attended the Remembrance Day parade on behalf of our school last Sunday. Will and Chanel read a reading from the bible and everyone set a great example. In assembly today the ambassadors shard the poem ‘In Flander’s field’ and they talked to the school about why it is important to think about owe who lost their lives. We thank them for their sacrifices and what they have done to allow us to live in  a safer world. 

    
 

In relation to article 6 (you have the right to live and grow well) we had an enterprise sale to raise awareness and money for those children around the world who don’t have the same access to rights as we do. We raised an amazing £218.80 for world vision. Through world vision we sponsor two children in Africa. We are learning all about their lives and have helped them to get an education and build a life for themselves in their village.