Assembly 22.2.19

This morning at assembly we continued to learn about article 24.  We revisited our learning about the right to clean water, discussing the issues that were highlighted at the last assembly.  We then looked at what a charity such as Water Aid do to support communities in accessing clean water.  The children’s responses were super and clearly show that they understand the charity’s role in supporting and facilitating communities but not ‘handing out’.  We then linked this back to the article to demonstrate our understanding of the role rich countries play in supporting poorer countries.

Stars of the Week and Scottish Poetry Placings –

8.2.19 Assembly

Today in the Red Unit assembly we continued our journey of learning about the UNCRC; initially we are going to focus on Article 24.  We have honed in on the ‘clean water’ element of the article and looked at images of children who live in other parts of the world.  Although many of the images made it very real for us to see the hardship children are faced with on a daily basis, it is important for us to reflect on what we have and compare similarities and differences to others’ lives, in relation to clean water.  Volunteers also took part in a challenge where two children went to the tap to fill a bucket of water and another two walked around the school to fill a bucket and bring it back.  Hopefully this went some way to show what children have to do access water and the time difference of having a tap or not.

Next at assembly we will look at how communities with no running water can be supported and relate this to article 24.

Stars of the Week –

 

25th January Red Unit Assembly

This morning at assembly we were learning about the work of Rabbie Burns, in particular focusing on his song ‘A Man’s A Man for A’ That’.  We read over the words and listened to it simultaneously, trying to get our heads around some of the language used.

We then identified the Scots words in verse 1 and did a fabulous job at translating this verse.  We learned that verse one was about fairness and everyone being treated the same, no matter their wealth.  Some were surprised that all that time ago, that was what Burns was writing about as it’s so relevant to the present day.

Stars of the Week –

Red Unit Assembly 11.1.19

Happy New Year

Red Unit assemblies will continue to be on a Friday every fortnight  for the time being and I will post our learning and our ‘stars’ from each assembly on my blog.

As it was my first Red Unit assembly today and being the newest member of the team, I felt it was important to discuss teamwork.  A volunteer from P7 participated in a paper challenge (ripping as much paper as possible in a set time) and we listened to the Aesop’s Fable Bundle of Sticks.  Reflecting on the moral from the story, we then repeated the paper challenge but made changes to make it more successful; everyone agreed it required a team.  And they were right!  We then related this to the Red Unit and discussed it’s the small things that make a big difference when we work effectively as a team; looking out for one another, offering help, holding doors, saying thank you, keeping the peg areas tidy.

I was very impressed with the responses shared by the learners in assembly and I look forward to working with the Red Unit during this time and every other day.

Assemblies from now on will be focusing on Rights Respecting Schools UNCRC.

 

Stars of the Week

 

3.12.18

Our assembly this morning was our first rehearsal together for the Christmas Show.  The children have now seen the the entire show so they will get used to the running order .  Today the narrators targets were to use a loud, slow and clear voice and the choir’s targets were to sing loudly and clearly and to sit and stand quietly.   It was a real team effort and everyone did very well for our first attempt.  Tomorrow our rehearsal will be in the gym hall to get used to filling that large space!

26.11.18 Assembly

We picked up on our previous learning about Article 24 in Assembly this morning.  I couldn’t believe how many children remembered the ‘special rule’, having spoken about it four weeks ago. Very impressive!

We looked at various foods and voted if we had tried them or not; everyone had.  One of the foods was rice, which focused our discussion on the importance of this food for people who might not have a lot to eat.  We also spoke about how UNICEF may help with this too.

We read and acted out a real life story about a little girl form Mali called Sidi.   The children were showing a great interest in this story and were able to identify that Sidi’s life was quite different to their own life.  We also discussed what we do during a day in school and what Sidi might be doing.  The children also found this very interesting and were recognising that again Sidi’s life is very different to theirs.  See the story below –

Sidi’s Story Enough to Eat?
My name is Sidi. I am seven years old and I live in a
small village called Dianvelli, in Mali, Africa. My
family are farmers. We grow millet, peanuts, and
vegetables like tomatoes and onions.
My mother sells tomatoes, onions and peanuts at the
market. It takes her four hours to walk there. With the
money that she makes she buys the extra things that we
need.
When I get up each morning, my mother has already lit the
fire, fetched water from the well and made the breakfast. For
breakfast we eat toh, which is porridge made from millet.
We also have toh for our meal at the end of the day, this
time with a delicious sauce made from tomatoes, onions
and ground baobab leaves.
I help my mother and father harvest the millet. We
bring it back from the fields on our donkey cart and
store it in our granary – a small building raised on
stones to stop mice climbing in to eat the food. We use
the millet from the granary for the rest of the year. We
also save seeds to plant next year.
It is warm or hot here, except in December and
January, when it is cold at night. It usually rains a lot
in June, July and August – we call this the rainy
season. All the rest of the year it is very dry. We plant
our crops just before June and if the rains are good we
get a good harvest.
One year there wasn’t much rain at all and we didn’t
grow enough millet and vegetables to eat and to sell. We
had to sell two of our goats to buy more food. Also some
relations in the south gave us some food and money.

 

Star Class were P3D; many shared super answers, volunteered to come up and help and acted out the story too.  Well done P3D.

Stars of the Week

 

Term 2 Assembly

Now we are into Term 2, we are focusing on specific articles from the UNCRC.  We have started learning about Article 24, which is about the right to have nutritious food.  Hopefully your child will be able to tell you a little bit about the ‘special rule 24’ already.

We discussed what we need to be healthy and opened up the discussion, thinking about children all over the world and how their food and diet might be different to ours.  We then looked at images of food and categorised them into ‘home’ or ‘away’.  A super start to our learning this term!

Assembly 8.10.18

This morning at assembly we acted out the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.  Six children came up to act out the role of the six main characters and delivered the most fantastic acting.   Volunteers then shared which parts of the story that were fair and other parts that were not fair.  Then focusing on the not fair aspects, we discussed how this could become fair; e.g. Jack taking the cow to market seemed unfair but he was given beans which made it fairer.  The children were very good at identifying solutions to the issues that arose in the story.

Now that we have revisited needs and wants and fairness, next term we will be focusing on specific rights to further develop the children’s understanding of what these mean to us and children all over the world.

Star Class were P2K.  Many volunteered super answers and the Giant’s acting in the story was amazing!

Stars of the Week 

1.10.18

Today we moved onto learning about what is fair and not fair.  Rather than focus on ourselves, we listened to the story of Cinderella and selected the important parts of the story to decide whether it was fair or not fair.  We will eventually think of our own lives and compare what we have to others but this was a really helpful activity to encourage the children to think of a situation they are all familiar with.  It will also lead us into learning more about specific rights next term.  Together the children voted that Cinderella doing all the cleaning, the step sisters going to the ball, Cinderella crying and losing her slipper were all not fair.  The children said that Cinderella dancing with the Prince and going to the ball was fair.  I asked what could make it fairer for Cinderella and one super response was for Cinderella and her step sisters to work as a team to do the cleaning; fantastic answer!

Star Class were P3D.  Together they volunteered to help out at the front, they shared super answers and they followed the rules very well indeed.  Great example to show our younger pupils.

Stars of the Week

Assembly 17.9.18

Assembly this morning was just like a quiz show!  We played a game for the children to earn points against me; I displayed eight images and they were to decide whether it was a need or a want.  They were all encouraged to call out an answer and they scored a perfect eight points 🙂  As a result, our next assembly will move onto a new aspect of learning about rights.

Needs and wants call out

The above are the images we used this morning.  Feel free to discuss them at home too.

Stars of the Week

Star Class were P1M.  They did really well to follow our assembly rules, participated in the quiz show and volunteered answers for our discussion too.  Great!

 

 

 

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