We are excited about Red Nose Day today and we are wearing our pyjamas and having a Comedy Gig to raise money and celebrate the day. But we wanted to take a moment to think about why it is a good choice to raise money for Comic Relief and what it helps people to do…

What is Red Nose Day for?

• KC – RND helps raise money for people to live and helps them be so happy.
• KA-H – It is so people get food.
• JH – We raise money so that people can get food and water.
• JW – Not dirty water – the clean kind that people can drink. The good water.
• LC – You raise money.
• AA – It helps people get healthy.
• KL – They need food to help them eat.

We watched this video about Adoja and Sharifa…

Why does she want to go to school so much?

• CS – To make good choices.
• KA-H – To learn.
• KC – To help her know what life is about in school.
• JW – To learn numbers.
• JC – To learn stuff.
• LC – To write.
• SW – How to count.
• AA – To get healthy food.
• RB – To learn skills.

Why is it important to know all these things?

• KL – to get better.
• JC – To get smart and to get money for food. If you are smart you get money. You can go to work.
• KC – She wants to get better at knowing more stuff.

We made posters showing all the reasons that it is important to go to school!

What is stopping the little girl from going to school?

• EM – She actually had a job. It wasnt a good job.
• RB – She was selling charcoal – it is something that starts a fire.
• CS – If they didnt sell charcoal the family wouldnt get any money.

What can Comic Relief do to help?

Comic Relief says…

“Teachers at a kindergarten run by Street Girls Aid urged Adjoa to send her daughter to regular lessons. The young girl was already behind in her education and they said if Adjoa did not have enough money to cover lunch fees, books or uniform, they would not turn her away. The project is the local partner of Street Child Africa, which receives money raised through Red Nose Day to support parents and provide good quality early years teaching to children who would not otherwise be in school.”

At the end of our discussion P2A felt really proud that we had been able to do something in our school to raise money to help other children around the world go to school just like we do. What a great way to use a Friday morning!

Yesterday we went on a walk over the Forth Road Bridge, and today we talked about all the water that we saw flowing under the bridge.

We watched the video clip in an earlier blog post about saving water and talked about why it was important to save water.

“I know that the water comes down as rain, goes into the drains and then goes out to the sea.” (CR)

Why do we need to save water?

• Because if we have no water there will be nowhere for the fish and the sharks to live. (MC).
• If people use too much water there will be no more water for people to have and we will have nothing to drink. (KC).
• If you use too much water there will be no water to have a bath and a shower. SW.
• There will be no water for the earth to live. (SF).
• If you don’t have any water you will get dehydrated. (RB)
• Animals need to drink as well to give us meat and milk. (MC).

There seems to be loads of water – why do we need to worry about running out?

• We could still run out because there are loads and loads of people who need water! (RB)
• Lots of the water isn’t clean enough for us to drink. (RB)
• You can drink the water out of your tap. (RS)

What can we do to save water?

• Could you melt down ice to make water? (EM)
• Just take a wee bit of a drink and save the rest for later (CR)
• Turn the tap off when you don’t need it (RK).
• Turn the tap off when you have been using it (CR)
• Only use a half cup (JH).
• We could have a quick shower instead of a bath to use less water (JC).
• Use bucket rather than a hose (RS).