We survived another lockdown and some very successful home schooling and now we are all back together. Even though lots of the class were already in school during lockdown it has been so nice to have everyone together again this week!
Over the last few days we have been getting use to being in the classroom again and have introduced some new work. In English we have started looking at the poem “The Sound Collector” we have been performing it to each other and creating actions to remember the text.
Working in pairs to create actions to “The Sound Collector”
On Tuesday afternoon we made Mother’s Day cards ready for Sunday. We worked well together and showed a lot of perseverance to make sure our cards turned out perfectly for our Mums. We used hearts to create a card which looked like a bouquet of flowers.
This year’s World Book Day was a little different to normal but we still all dressed up and we even dressed up fruit and veg as our favourite book characters!
We had characters from The Creakers, Matilda, Narnia, BFG, Code Name Bananas, Tome Gates and more!
It was amazing the effort everyone went to even though the stores are shut!
In the classroom and at home, we did lots of activities linked to books. We created a new setting for our book character and wrote a persuasive advert for our favourite book.
Our most important task of the day, however, was a letter we wrote to Boris Johnson and the government.
As a class we discussed what it would be like to not have access to books and all the things we’d miss out on. We realised we wouldn’t have a good imagination, we couldn’t use reading to help us feel calm and relax and even for those of us who aren’t keen on reading books we realised that we wouldn’t be able to read signs or food labels or even what are PlayStation games were telling us to do!
All children have a right to an education, a right to play and relax and a right to reliable information that they can read. But how can children access these rights if they haven’t had books to learn to read?
We decided it was the governments responsibility to make sure that no matter how much money you have or where or who you live with, every child in the UK should have access to books. We discussed different children’s circumstances and felt very strongly that we had to try to do something to make sure all children were as lucky as some of us! So, we each wrote a letter to Mr Johnson using our Rights and persuasive language to ask him to give out free books to areas and children in need.
We have sent our letters off and hope they make a difference as the government have a responsibility to ensure all children have their rights!
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