Category: Imagining Manor Park

Each week when children from the Skills School group meet, everyone checks in. The children and adults decorated badges with their name. They stick the badges on a number between 1 and 10 depending on how they are feeling that day.

If they feel happy and are having a good day at school the children and adults might place themselves really high up on the scale, but if something hasn’t been very good or they are just feeling a bit off that day then they might stick their name to a lower number. Then everyone gets a chance to say why they chose the number they did. If there are times during the session when people feel different then they can move their peg.

Skills School are a group of children from Manor Park School who are working with the Children’s Parliament for 12 weeks to think about what children need to be healthy, happy and safe.

‘At Children’s Parliament we are looking at Children’s rights, making friends and thinking about what makes us learn.’

‘Welcome to the Manor Park Parliament blog. We do very fun things and write it on this blog. We work with lots of children and hear all or their ideas. We improve Manor Park.’

In 2016, all children at Manor Park imagined their school as a happy, healthy and safe place, where everyone can do their best. They came up with loads of wonderful ideas and drawings, which are now presented in their school corridors in the form of a mural.

‘We made a mural. Panel one is about everyone being happy and no one being judged. Panel two is about staying mentally healthy. Panel three is about no one being left out. The fourth panel is about everyone being happy and staying fit. The fifth panel is about learning in different ways. And the final panel is about making people feel comfortable at school.’ Caitlin, P7 pupil and mural painter.

Using the mural as a starting point, children will talk about their experiences at Manor Park and how their vision for Manor Park might happen.