This week, P6 have been participating in Challenge Poverty Week.

This relates to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child, linked to:

Article 2
You have the right to protection against discrimination. This means that nobody can treat you badly because of your colour,sex or religion, if you speak another language, have a disability, or are rich or poor.

Article 26
You have the right to help from the government if you are poor or in need.

Article 27
You have the right to a good enough standard of living. This means you should have food, clothes and a place to live.

P6 have been focusing on:

*Learning to understand that some people in Scotland have less than others.

*Learning to understand what it is like to have less than others.

*Learning to understand the importance of treating others with kindness.

The class discussed the term poverty and shared what things we need in life to be happy. A lot of answers centred around family, friends, a home to live in and a bed to sleep on. They then listened to a variety of statements relating to poverty and had to decide whether they agreed, disagreed or didn’t know for each statement and be able to justify their answer. The class shared a lot of great responses and listened carefully to everyone.

We then watched the BBC documentary ‘Breadline Kids’ and afterwards discussed whether any of our choices to the poverty statements had changed.

P6 felt that the main message from their learning was “If you can be anything, be kind”.