In primary 2 we have been thinking about what it is to be a kind person and what it is to be a good friend.

We know it is important to be kind to each other because we all need to get on with each other (Jack Wilson). Kindness is needed to be friends (Connor Blain + Ryan Gardner). Kindness can stop arguments and nastiness (Logan Fair).
We have been using adjectives to describe a good friend. These are helpful, happy, kind, nice, funny, clever, cool in school, good, amazing and beautiful.

We have been covering our beanstalk in the class with kindness chains. This week, Jamie-Leigh and Emma stood at each end of the kindness chain and saw how long it stretched. We tried to skip with it, but we need to make them out of card next time instead of paper.

In addition to our Cool in School strategies, we’ve been thinking about the responsibilities that come with the rights we are entitled to. In particular, we’ve thought about our right to play and how we can respect the rights of our friends while still having a good time. Cool in School helps us to manage our responsibilities and we’re using our last chance warnings inside and outside of the classroom. We need to work hard at remembering our techniques but we are getting much better at helping each other to remember.

We’ve had our first meeting today of the Rights Respecting Group since the Christmas holidays.  We reminded ourselves that this session our focus will be on respect in the playground.  We think this can be done if people played with equipment and games more.  Our task is to audit what equipment we already have to play with in the playground. 

Jay and Isla told us about the equipment used in the nursery.  They have lots of outside games and equipment including bikes, a chute, hoops and balls.