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Article 2

The UNCRC belongs to everyone under the age of 18 no matter their race, religion or ability.

The Rights Respecting group have been busy again… This week we have placed the whole school charter up on display at the front entrance. After a lot of discussion, the following articles were chosen as the most important and relative in school:

8 The right to an identity, 12 The right to be heard, 19 The right to be protected from being hurt 24 The Right to a clean and safe environment, 28 The right to an education, 29 Your education should develop skills and talents.

The water coming out of the watering cans explains what adults responsibilities will be in order to make sure all children receive these rights and the flowers show the rights respecting actions for the children of St Nicholas to adhere to so they can grow and develop individually.

Primary 5b have been learning all about animals of the rainforest!

We worked in pairs of research teams and were given an animal to create a fact file for, all the fact files were to be published in our very own ‘Rainforest Encyclopedia’!

Some of us had animals we had never even heard of like an okapi (which is actually a horse like creature with zebra legs!) or a gaboon viper (which is a deadly snake!), before we started our research another research team set us some questions to find out about our animal, such as; How long does it live for? Is it poisonous? What does it eat?

We went off in our research teams and used the internet and books to find our information. Then we used Mircosoft Word to create eye catching fact files with images and different fonts!

Once our fact files were complete and in the encyclopedia we presented them to our class, some of the facts were amazing… Did you know a blue morpho butterfly has a lifespan of only 115 days? The harpy eagle has a wingspan of over 7 foot!

We then provided each other with quality feedback on the presentations, we looked at each others fact files and tried to decide if they had provided enough information or answered all the questions they were asked, then we left comments for the researchers to read! We are hoping our wonderful encyclopedia will be filled with amazing information all about the rainforest as we continue our topic!

We then started to draw our animals for our rainforest display! We had to use maths skills to create a grid to help us draw our animals in proportion! First we drew the outline in a light coloured pencil, then we began to shade and mix colours to make our drawings really realistic! What do you think?! Come and see them for yourself in our classroom display!

Next we are moving on to classifying animals as vertebrates or invertebrates, then mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles!

We’re all in this together

In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle…