We have been thinking about our rights this week as the children visit other classes as part of their transition. we know that every person has rights and moving up to year 1, we will still keep our rights and have access to ‘rest and play’ throughout our childhoods.

This made us think about our right of the term ‘we all have the right to play and rest’. We think we have certainly had lots of opportunities to put it into practice this term- We have been a trip to Plymouth Aquarium, been gardening and growing potatoes, made an obstacle course outside and designed African necklaces for our Handa’s surprise topic during our play, we also have plenty of opportunities to rest- we love to relax in our book corner, listen to stories in the library, make and eat pancakes for snack and eat lollies in our orchard sitting with friends on a sunny day.

This week we have been thinking about Article 6 and how humans, animals and plants all have the right to life, survival and development. So, Year 2 have continued their science learning about plants. We are planning to make our own terrariums! We discussed the water cycle and what plants need to survive and we designed our own terrariums. We will report back once they are up and running so keep an eye out!

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We have been looking at the Right of The Term and exploring Article 29 (The Right to an Education that Develops Your Talents).

Year Sixes have also discussed the meanings of ‘indivisible’ and ‘duty bearers’ in relation to rights.

This term Year 3 are focusing on the right to good healthcare, food and water. To start this off we had a visit from Alix Harding who supports mental health support and learning across the federation. She talked to the children about her role and how our duty bearers in school are supporting everyone with their mental health. In the coming weeks our mental health champions will also be visiting us to talk about their role within this. Perhaps we can inspire some future mental health champions!

As children grow the less guidance they will need. In year 1 we have been learning about recycling, with very little guidance from our class adults we used recycling materials to create our own shakers. We cut the tape independently and designed them on our own.

Last week our Rights Ambassadors visited Teign School to meet their student ambassadors and visit the library to get ideas for our own library makeover. They had some brilliant discussions, sharing how we work in our school and taking ideas about how Teign School ambassadors lead and support their learning across the school. The library visit was also brilliant for inpsiring some new ideas and helping us to get some ideas about differernt books and authors we can explore.

Our ambassadors truely lived up to their name and loved the opportunity to access their right to a voice (Article 12 of the UNCRC).

Our play buddies have been out at playtimes this week, supporting children with their play and teaching new games! They are working hard to promote fair and peaceful play for everyone while sharing new ideas and helping everyone to be involved.

Our rights ambassadors have been exploring the term ‘inherent’ in more detail by looking at it as a human right, not just a children’s right. They went on a visit to Bishopsteington House residential home to visit the residents and spend some time getting to know them. The ambassadors have been teaching the school that inherent means everyone is born with rights and are starting to learn about ‘inalienable’ which means rights cannot be taken away. They were brilliant at socialising with the residents and talking to them about their own lives and the memories they have. The children taught the residents some new games and the residents enjoyed joining in with colouring activities with the children. It was a brilliant hour where different generations were able to share and interact.

While the ambassadors were visiting they also took the opportunity to share their plans for our library refurbishment. The ambassadors have been working very hard on plans they would like to incorporate into a new library design and were so confident in sharing their ideas and explaining how it will help every child access their right to an education.

Article 24 – The right to the best health and nutritious food! Year 2 have been enjoying their free fruit at break times.

Year 3 have been using their English lesson today to do some reasearch. Our Right of the term is Article 17- the right to information. We have been researching different women from the book Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World using Google and the book to support us.

Every child has the right to information and to find out things that might affect them. Our research today opened a discussion about whether we can always trust the information we can find and why there is more information available on the internet than there is in books.

We gathered together our ideas and will continue the discussion in Guided Reading next week when we look at how to trust a website.