We have had a discussion about our rights and how they are valid for everyone. Rights are not just for children, they are also for adults, staff, parents and everyone in and out of our school. The adults in our school support the children in understanding their rights.
In Reception we have been learning about our right to rest and play. We are so fortunate to have a wonderful outdoor area to rest and play in as well as our classrooms. We enjoy playing and resting together and even though we can be independent and choose our own snack time and what we eat, recently for our harvest topic we have read the story of stone soup, so we decided to make our very own vegetable soup to share. We rested together for a break and shared the soup, dipping our toast in to try it. We enjoyed working as a team to cook the soup and sharing it together.
Article 24 (health and health services)
Every child has the right to the best
possible health. Governments must
provide good quality health care, clean
water, nutritious food, and a clean
environment and education on health
and well-being so that children can stay
healthy. Richer countries must help poorer
countries achieve this.
This week Year 2 have been thinking about Harvest. Harvest is celebrated to give thanks for the crops, which have been safely harvested. Christians thank God for the food during the harvest festival. They believe God made the world and everything in it and so thank God for the variety of food and everything that helps the food to grow.
This term in PSHE, Year 5 have been learning all about our rights as children through the UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child. We’ve found out what it means to have rights and why they are so important for every child in the world.
We’ve talked about how our rights help us feel safe, respected and listened to, and how they give us the chance to grow, learn and be the best we can be. We know that we all have a voice and we can use it to make our school an even better place for everyone.
Learning about our rights has made us think more carefully about our choices and how we treat others. We’re proud to be rights-respecting and we are always looking for ways to use what we’ve learned in our everyday school life.
As part of our religious and world views learning we discussed the different groups that we belong to. Lots of us spoke about different sporting groups such as football and rugby clubs and some of us are also members of groups such as Squirrels and Brownies. We thought about what we might wear to show we are part of these groups and that we belong
Today we celebrated the children’s wonderful artwork that has been created by every child in our school. It look absolutely wonderful and we have been so proud showing our adults too!
In Reception today we read a story about Elmer. We discovered that Elmer is special and that he is kind and funny and makes his own choices. Then we thought about how we are all different and what we are good at doing. We are all free to be ourselves and we are wonderful!
Then we told each other what things we are good at. Raven is good at taking care of people. Thea is good at making friends. Ollie is good at playing football. Ronnie is good at using the monkey bars and Alice is good at holding bugs.
Children have the right to give their opinions freely on issues that affect them. Adults should listen and take them seriously. In year 1 we have looked that the new school menu for September. We discussed what we liked about it and possible changes, these ideas will then go back to the kitchen so they can update the menu using the views we have given.
In Year 4 we have been looking at both articles 28 and 29 about having access to and a right to an education. We read about the story of a little girl called Chiwa who was 9 years old and lived in Malawi with her family. Chiwa was having to walk 10 miles to go to school every week day (she loved school and didn’t mind this) but because of her family’s circumstances she may have to stop once she finished Primary school. We discussed her family situation and how it impacted on her ability to have an education. We wrote our opinions down and shared them as a class.
You may have noticed lots of our rights respecting blog posts have been mentioning a ‘Right of the Term’ recently. This is something that has been set up so each year group can learn about all the different articles on the convention on the rights of the child (see more here https://www.unicef.org.uk/what-we-do/un-convention-child-rights/) without feeling overloaded – there are over 40 of them after all! As the children move up through the school they will access different rights in different year groups and revisit ones they have covered before to ensure they are embedded. We are working hard to include our rights of the term in our every day learning and we will be introducing more information about them through assemblies and worships.
Below is a copy of the rota so you can see what rights will be coming up for your child’s year groupa and the sorts of activities that might be covered (these can be swapped and changed to fit the curriculum as it comes around so please take them as a suggestion only).
It would be lovely to see any further activities going on at home via tapestry or sending photos to the school.
