Following on from Miss Baillie’s assembly on kindness on Friday, the whole school have had an Anti-Bullying focus this week.
This has tied in very well with our book study too as we learn about the value of friendship through Charlotte and Wilber.
On Monday, we began to think about the qualities that make a good friend. We thought about our best friends and why we like them; is it the way they behave or maybe the way they make us feel? Is it the things we enjoy doing together that make us good friends? Is it because we are very different but our differences complement each other?
We played a pairs game to begin our discussion. The cards had pictures and sentences showing attributes of a good friend. This was good fun and we had some good group discussion too. Then we each wrote notes on the qualities that we look for in a friend.
On Tuesday, we used these notes to write ‘A Recipe for a Good Friend.’ The words we had on our list from Monday helped us to write them. Mrs Kennedy had a lovely time reading the recipes, the children worked hard on them and each one had the perfect ingredients to make a good friendship.
We have also been celebrating our differences this week, we had a great discussion when thinking about what the world would be like if everyone was the same. We spent some time discussing what the consequences would be if everyone in the world was a fantastic builder but they couldn’t do anything else. We would have no doctors, farmers, teachers, scientists, artists… We came to the conclusion that it just wouldn’t work, we need everyone’s different skills and qualities to make life interesting, much more fun and actually to allow us to survive! Without talking to anyone else we wrote down what our personalities are like and our very favourite things to do. We decorated handprints to celebrate all the things that are unique to us. They really are very good and I can see all the children’s personalities reflected in their work.
I actually took a couple of photo’s of maths this week! The children are continuing their addition work, improving mental maths methods of adding 2-digit numbers. One of their favourite things to do is to be the teacher and explain how to solve problems to the class. It is really good for me too as I can observe how well they are picking up the skills I am teaching.
We had a great time at the benchball festival at Linlithgow Academy on Thursday. It was good to meet children from every school in our cluster. It was a very busy afternoon and we each played a lot of games. The children showed excellent teamwork and put all of the skills we have been learning into practise. Their behaviour was very good too, they showed all the Springfield values and were very good representatives of Springfield School.
I think we have earned some well-deserved rest this weekend. Thanks for reading our post, P3B and Mrs Kennedy
