Congratulations to our Welsh badge winners last week. You have been using lots of incidental Welsh inside and outside of the classroom. Bendigedig pawb!!
Enillwyr Tocynnau Cymraeg
Human Rights Day
Year 6 studied a scene depicting a very busy every-day scene. They had to look for rights being enjoyed, being requested and being denied. We later looked through all of the human rights and had to choose some to diamond rank. Our concluding thoughts were that the type of life someone has lived will affect which human rights they consider to be the most important. They also queried whether soldiers were free… .
Christingle Creating
We have been busy bees learning about the importance of a Christingle and then made our very own.
Christingle Making
We have all made a Christingle before our Christingle service tomorrow.
Christmas Jumper Day/Diwrnodd Nadolig Siwmper
Today, we were all smiles for Christmas Jumper Day!
Black History Month
We have written biographies to celebrate Black History month.
Diwrnod Siwmper Nadolig!
Da iawn Pawb! You all look fantastic in your Christmas jumpers raising money for the Welsh Air Ambulance!
Human Rights Day - Article 2
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.
Human Rights Day
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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We looked at various Christmas related items such as the nativity scene, the bible, chocolate, a Christmas tree, a candle, a charity envelope, Santa, a star and a stocking. We had to answer ‘What matters most at Christmas time?’
“Jesus”
“because he was born on Christmas day”
“the bible because it has stories about Jesus”
“the star because it led the wise men to Bethlehem”
“the candle because Jesus is the ;light of the world”
“stockings because Santa needs to put presents in something”
“the Christmas tree because that’s where Santa leaves presents”
“the chocolate advent calendar because it is the countdown to Christmas”
“I think the charity envelope because the money you give will buy food for other people”