Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
For Human Rights Day, Aderyn Du looked at a picture and discussed what Human Rights we could see. We then looked at the rights of a child and used diamond ranking to discuss what we thought was more important and least important. The children had a lot of discussion and all shared their thoughts and ideas about the different articles.
We have written biographies to celebrate Black History month.
We measured Brynny in November to to see if the space would be suitable for us to build our rollercoaster on. We used trundle wheels to measure the area and perimeter.
We had a fabulous time watching Sleeping Beauty last week in the Courtyard in Hereford. Thank you to our Friends of School for our snack packs.
Well done for all of the children for working so hard on their table centrepieces and their Christmas Eve plates. Thank you to the following members of staff/volunteers that made these production lines possible…. Sally Humphries, Kath George, Sarah Lloyd, Jade Durban, Carole Stokes, Nick Tranter, Helen Lloyd, Sue Hayward and Simon License. Finally, thank you to our fantastic parents and members of community that have purchased our goods and supported us.
This week we have been busy making our rollercoasters. Its was really tricky to build and make the curves and the loops, but we persevered and Knighton Town Council were really pleased with our prototypes.
Da iawn Pawb! You all look fantastic in your Christmas jumpers raising money for the Welsh Air Ambulance!
We’ve been very busy learning all about the human rights! To help us, we created a human rights rap and made some human rights mini displays.
Article 2 – All children have these rights, no matter who they are or what they look like.
We listened to the story ‘It’s ok to be different’, and discussed why it is ok to be different. Here are some of the children’s contributions;
“We have different colour skin and that is ok.”
“You might want to speak in a different language.”
“It doesn’t matter where you live. You can live in different places and still be friends.”
“My mummy has curly hair and I don’t, and that is ok.”
“Teasing is not kind, because children will feel sad if you tease them.”
“My mummy is different to me because she has dark hair and I have light hair.”
After our discussion, we played a game of ‘switch places if you ……’ where the children swapped places with another child if they answered yes to the question/statement.
For Human Rights Day, we found out that the world’s food is NOT divided equally and that we all have the right to food, clothing, a safe home. (Article 27).
After World War 2, countries around the world joijned together to form the United Nations to protect individuals and to ensure that people in the world have better living conditions. Representatives from 193 countries form the United Nations. The UN created 30 rights that people are entitled to. Children are entitled to additional rights.
We discussed some of the rights that we are entitled to and we decided to look at Article 27.
According to the World Health Organisation, a third of the people in the world are well fed, or even eat too much, but two thirds of the people in the world are not getting enough food to eat. In Wales 29% of people don’t have enough to eat.
We decided to represent this figure practically by inviting 1/3 of our class to dine on a feast and 2/3 of the class to have a plate of rice.
“I hated having the rice, I was still hungry and it didn’t taste of anything”
“I didn’t have any food, luckily my friend shared his rice with me”
“I was so lucky to have a feast”
“I felt guilty eating my feast thinking about the people that didn’t have enough to eat”
We then thought of things that we could do to help….
“give to a food bank”
“ask supermarkets to give food”
“share food with other countries”
“give to charity and they can send money to people to help them”
“teach people how to be farmers and give them seeds to grow food”
“send equipment and tools to help people grow food”
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