Thursday, October 21, 2010

Rights and Responsibilities

We are learning about our rights and responsibilities to help us with our Topic Study this term.  Our big question is "What are our rights and responsibilities to ensure endangered species survive?"  It seems like a really big and really long question but Room 7 is up for the challenge.  This is what we discovered....

What are our rights?
Our rights are the things that help us live in this world, they are the things we need to live in a fair world.

Everyone has the right to have:
  • safety
  • education
  • shelter (somewhere to live)    
  • warmth           
  • food   
  • clothing          
  • personal space            
  • to be different
Of course since these rights are for everybody, that means we all have to take on responsibility too.

What is a responsibility?
A responsibility is something that is your job to do something about, or to think about. 

Some of our responsibilities:
  • to follow the Golden Rules
  • to be the best person that we can be  
  • to take care of our own bodies   
  • to respect the rights of others
  • to look after our own belongings and respect the belongings of others
  • to listen to the teacher so that we can learn better
  • to care about my family
You might want to watch this movie.  It's about a little boy called Andy and how he learnt to be responsible.  It was made a long time ago and so it is in black and white (that means there is no colour pictures).


We are learning more each day but we wanted to know whether you have any responsibilities at your school. Some of the senior students at school get to be librarians at lunchtime or first aid monitors.  What sort of responsibilities do the children at your school have?

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