This week has been Anti-Bullying Week. There are three articles that provide a particularly strong link this week:

Article 2 – Non-discrimination: The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background.

Article 12 – Respect for the views of the child: Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously. This right applies at all times, for example during immigration proceedings, housing decisions or the child’s day-to-day home life.

Article 13 (freedom of expression) – Every child must be free to express their thoughts and opinions and to access all kinds of information, as long as it is within the law.

Article 19 – Protection from violence, abuse and neglect: Governments must do all they can to ensure that children are protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and bad treatment by their parents or anyone else who looks after them.

We used the petals of our kindness flower to write rhyming poems to tell people to be respectful and kind. Next week we are going to film them and put them into our rights conversation padlet. Hopefully we can then share them with you.

As it was also Book Week we created a mini library from the books we are currently reading. We also had a trip to the local library to hand in St. John Ogilvie PS, Anti-Litter Poster Area winners which they are going to display for the local community to see. Our winners were announced for classes and area winners in Assembly this morning. Our School Campaign to improve our local environment and raise awareness of Climate Change continues.

 

 

 

 

We are working hard on creating wonderful Christmas gifts and learning our Christmas songs to entertain everyone at our Christmas Enterprise Show.  In science we have started the challenge to build the most effective wind turbines with boxes, straws, paper clips, string and tubes. Hopefully we can film working models next week to share with you.

Have a great weekend everyone.