Citizenship Day

We started our new term with our regular Citizenship Day. This term, we focused on Global Citizenship and our commitment to the school values. We all wore blue to remind us to be aware of bullying and to remind us of our promise to prevent bullying in our school. 
 
Here are some examples of our work from Citizenship Day:
Year 4
On this Citizenship Day, Year 4 took inspiration from the "15 Classrooms" photograph project. We viewed the 15 different classrooms from Kenya to Kabul and asked questions about what it must be like to be educated in another country.
We compared our own classroom, uniform and schools to the learning environments around the world and explored the idea that in some countries education is exclusively for one gender or other group in society. This led to a Philosophy For Children session titled "Should children have to go to school?"
We also explored what it means to be a Global Citizen and worked in small groups to create Diamond 9's with Global Citizenship statements, expressing ideas and discussing each on in our groups. 
 
 
Year 3
 
As part of our global learning we learnt about the life of a child from the countryside and towns of Ethiopia, India, Peru and Viet Nam. We compared our lives to theirs and addressed any misconceptions.
What does it mean to be doing well in life?
 
We discussed what it means to be doing well in life; narrowed it down to nine points and then ranked them in order of importance in small groups. It was hard to decide as we all value things differently but it sparked some thought provoking debating!
 
We then compared our points to that of the children learnt about from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Viet Nam.

As part of our anti-bullying learning, we learnt how unkind words can hurt and how that hurt is hard to (if ever) lose.  This was demonstrated with the aid of tooth paste: once it has come out, it can never go back in! 

To support this, the children drew their inner superhero with a catchy slogan to comfort themselves or others during hard times.