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.