Mutual Respect

In our activities over the afternoon we talked about:

•  the importance of listening to other’s opinions in partner work - we talked about preferences and then they took it in turn to explain what their partner liked rather than just their own point of view,
• different family celebrations  - we drew and shared celebrations from our own families including Eid, Christmas and movie night time!
• celebrating different strengths in others - we all thought of something we are proud of for ourselves and something we recognise as a strength in our friends eg they can play football well, they can draw princesses and even they can zip their own coat up!
• We looked at how unique our handprints are and how we like different fruit 

Key Stage One explored the British Value of Mutual Respect and learnt that respect means caring for each other and showing kindness both ways.

Through stories, videos, and discussion, the children shared how they show respect to friends, family and teachers by listening, helping, and using kind words.

To finish, everyone created a flower for our ‘Respect Garden’, each petal showing a way they can be respectful every day. Our colourful display is a lovely reminder that when we show respect, everyone feels valued.

LKS2 spent the afternoon training as Respect Ambassadors, learning how to promote respect through demonstrating it, encouraging it, and rewarding it. They created mutual respect contracts with behaviours they think all people should demonstrate and will spend the rest of the week positively noticing others showing respect and rewarding them with a sticker and kind words.

Finally, the children attended a graduation from the University of Mutual Respect and signed their scrolls ready to start their new jobs as ambassadors.

This British Values Afternoon Etna were learning about the value of Mutual Respect, in our lesson we discussed the importance of Mutual Respect and how respecting each other and ourselves can help the world become a better place for all of us to live in. We then discussed how we can all demonstrate the value of Mutual Respect in our own lives, at school, at home and in our wider community. To put all of their amazing ideas together Etna worked together to create posters about Mutual Respect that are now proudly displayed in our classroom. 

In Fuji class, we read different challenging scenarios, discussed them and decided whether they were showing respect or not. We also discussed the different between respecting ourselves and respecting others. We then applied our understanding of Mutual Respect to create posters aimed for younger members of the school.