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Article of the Week

Article 42 by P4NH

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Article 42 says that everyone should know about children’s rights.

Governments must make sure that children, adults, and everyone else learns about the rights that all children have.

See P4NH’s video showing how they raised awareness of children’s rights and article 42:

UNCRC Rights at Buckstone

Introducing Our Rights-Respecting Parents Leaflet – Created by Our Pupils!

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We are delighted to share a special leaflet created by our pupil Equalities Group to help parents understand children’s rights and how we can all work together to support them. As a Rights Respecting School, we believe that every child should be aware of their rights and feel empowered to use them in their daily lives.

We encourage all parents to read this leaflet and join us in fostering a rights-respecting environment both at school and beyond!

RRS Parents LeafletDownload
Article of the Week

Article 29 by P3LM

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This week, we are learning about Article 29 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This article says that children have the right to an education that helps them develop their skills, talents, and abilities. It’s not just about reading and writing – it’s also about learning to be kind, respectful, and understanding to others. Every child should be able to go to school and learn in a way that prepares them for a happy, successful life. Simply put, it’s about getting the right kind of education to grow into the best version of yourself! Have a look at P3LM’s video explaining what article 29 means to them.

UNCRC Rights at Buckstone

We are a Silver Accredited Rights Respecting School!

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We are proud to share that we have been accredited as Silver: Rights Aware from the UNICEF!

The Silver Accreditation Report is available to read below:

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The Rights Respecting Schools Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children’s rights and encouraging adults, children, and young people to respect the rights of others in school. Silver is given to schools that make excellent progress towards embedding the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into its ethos and curriculum. The Award recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s planning, policies and practice. A Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.

“The development work towards our achievement of our Silver RRS Award has impacted extremely positively on the whole school community. Our learners are aware of their rights as a child and our parents/carers and school staff have an increased knowledge and understanding of children’s rights. Our learning activities are now linked to the Rights of the Child across the school. The positive learning environment within the school has been strengthened by our Rights Respecting Schools work and children have an increased opportunity to lead changes to improve the school.” Mrs Imrie

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2 Reflective Friday 28.10.22 

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Dear Parents, 

We hope you all had a lovely break. 

This week has been a short one for the children however we have been very busy. 

Our learning this week: 

Literacy 

We have focused on sentence structure and what to look for when writing a sentence. 

Our writing theme was ‘My magic spell’ 

 At home   

  • We haven’t sent reading books home this week. Please return any books your child has at home.   
  • Your child should continue to work on the word wall related to the stage they are reading. They should become confident in reading these words.  Remember that they should recognise these words by sight. 
  • Handwriting, children could continue to practise writing their first and surname in cursive script.   
  • Continue to practise reading and spelling the tricky words.  An idea is to play faster finger: have all the tricky words written or on cards you say a word and the first person to find it wins the card (or a point). Then hide the card and ask your child to write it (double points for this). 

Maths 

We have been learning to count in twos. We read the book ‘How many seeds in a pumpkin’ and estimated how many seeds they were inside the four pumpkins we had at school. We carved them and counted the seeds in twos! 

At home: 

  • Continue to practice on number formation. 
  • We have used this 100 square website to help us to count in twos and to see the number patterns when counting in twos: 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

  • Continue to work on addition skills: 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Other areas 

As part of the school focus on Black History Month we have been learning about Rosa Parks: her life, why it was important what she did, etc. We discussed about on fair/unfair rules and about being all equal no matter our skin colour.  

Here is a video of the book we read at school. 

We made a fantastic display at school! 

PE we have worked on listening, team work, balance and eye-hand coordination skills. 

As part of our outdoor learning we did an Autumn scavenger hunt. 

Other information    
  
   

  • Loose parts on Wednesday 2nd November. 
  • Next Friday Drop-in of the session. The school will be open for half an hour from 8.55am until 9.25am and parents are invited to visit their child’s classroom during this time. This an opportunity to see your child’s learning at school.. 
  • Please ensure your child brings a jacket every day to school.    
  • Thank you for your support in emptying the purple folders each day.     
  • A reminder to name all items of clothing and shoes, and to check names on items brought home in case your child accidentally acquires a jumper belonging to someone else.    
  • We would appreciate donations of any unwanted empty or partially used notebooks or diaries (used pages can be removed). Also, any enticing writing implements (i.e., glittery pencils/gel pens/ pencils with feathers etc – anything other than standard school issue type pencils/pens). The children enjoy choosing resources from the table to use in their independent learning.    
  • We are looking for small pieces of ‘junk’ for modelling e.g., toothpaste boxes, tea bag boxes, snack bar boxes. The more interesting shapes the better!