This week in our PE lesson we have completed a challenge for Children in Need. Joe Wicks has challenged us to complete 1000 burpees and we have smashed it! We discussed the Children in Need charity and why it is so important. We linked this to our Rights. You can sponsor the Year 2 classes via JustGiving!
Article 13
We have a right to find out things.
Article 28: The right to a good quality education
In year one we have been settling in to our new classroom and exploring a range of fun and challenging learning activities.
We made a class charter and agreed to work together to make sure our learning environment is a safe and fun place for all.
We are celebrated in class and as a wider school when we make good choices and understand the consequences if we make bad choices.
We are really enjoying our time in Year One so far and have made some beautiful artwork to represent how we are going to ‘reach for the stars’ this year to achieve our learning goals.
Year 2: Class Charters
For our first week back, in Year 2 we have been discussing our Rights and Responsibilities. We devised our own class charters and came up with rules for everybody to follow to ensure we stay happy, safe and healthy. We signed our class charters by decorating hands with how we can be kind on each finger.
We have the right to play, Article 31
Today Year One were introduced to Dartmoor 3 ball. We learnt the rules of play and Yew Class went up against Silver Birch!
Both classes had the opportunity to be ‘batters’ and ‘fielders.’
Article 6: The right to be alive.
In year one we have been thinking about how we grow and change throughout our lives. We thought about what life is like when we are born, how we grow and learn to walk and talk, then keep growing and changing until we are adults. We thought about all the things we needed to keep our bodies healthy to life a long, happy life.
Year 2: Article 29 – Protecting the environment
This week, Year 2 have been on a school trip to Stover Country Park, to tie in with our LCC learning about healthy eating and plants. This links to Article 29 – Your education should help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people. At Stover, we discussed the importance of protecting the environment, including all of the plants, trees and other habitats.
Year 5 and Article 32: The right to protection from harmful work
Harmful work? If it harms a child’s health or education, it contravenes Article 32. Think Victorian era when boys swept clean chimneys and girls stayed at home to help with the chores. Those times have long since passed in this country, of course, but this is not the case in some poorer countries.
Yet this right should not be taken to mean children are not encouraged to take on roles of responsibility within school. In Year 5, children fulfil the roles of class monitors for a number of tasks, ranging from keeping the cloakroom tidy to sharpening pencils to holding open the door. Being a classroom monitor teaches the importance of serving the community (which, in school, is the class) in a way that is both pleasing and rewarding.(House points can be earned and a ‘thank you’ from a grateful peer is never far away.) It’s the positive flip-side of Article 32.
Religion
Article 30: You have the right to practise your own culture, language and religion.
Today Shahnila and her family have been celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid. She gave sweet treats to all her friends in Silver Birch class and came into Yew class to show us the card she gave to Mrs Sheldon and told us all about her special celebrations.
Thank you for sharing it with us 😊
Year 2: Friendship Song
This week in Year 2, we have started learning a friendship song in Music. We discussed the meaning of some of the words and phrases in the song and why it is so important to be kind to our friends, and everybody! We linked this to Article 15 – the right to choose our own friends and join or set up groups, as long as it isn’t harmful to others. For example, being compassionate and tolerant and not leaving anybody out if they have different views to us.
