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School is a large part of your life. School is not only a place to learn, but it’s a place to meet friends and get involved in fun events. Each one of your school years is different. Each one is very special. Your classmates, your teachers, your best friends are important to you.

When you leave school for sure you will miss it!

Think of some adjectives to describe your thoughts  about your school. Name three things  you'll never forget about your school years

Do you remember your first at at school?   How did you feel? Something similar to  this?

First Day at School

A millionbillionwillion miles from home

Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)

Why are they all so big, other children?

So noisy? So much at home they

must have been born in uniform.

Lived all their lives in playgrounds.

Spent the years inventing games

that don’t let me in. Games

that are rough, that swallow you up.

And the railings.

All around, the railings.

Are they to keep out wolves and monsters?

Things that carry off and eat children?

Things you don’t take sweets from?

Perhaps they’re to stop us getting out.

Running away from the lessins. Lessin.

What does a lessin look like?

Sounds small and slimy.

They keep them in glassrooms.

Whole rooms made out of glass. Imagine.

I wish I could remember my name.

Mummy said it would come in useful.

Like wellies. When there’s puddles.

Yellowwellies. I wish she was here.

I think my name is sewn on somewhere.

Perhaps the teacher will read it for me.

Tea-cher. The one who makes tea.

Like any  other organization school has got its rules. Look through the list of the rules and responsibilities. Do you agree with them? Would you like to change anything? Which of them do you find the most important ones?

You have the right to…..

                the responsibility to……

1. express yourself

    control yourself

2. to be heard

    to listen

3. to work at your own pace

    to finish your work

4. to be concerned about others

    to mind your own business

5. to be respected

    to respect others

6. to understand directions

    to follow directions

7. to use materials

    to care for materials

8. to an orderly place to learn

    to help make it that way.

If rules are broken the punishment follows/ Were punishments at school always the same? Did your parents (or your teacher) have the same punishments at their school that you do now? Look at the list of punishments and decide which ones belong to modern day schools and which ones belong to schools of years ago, and which ones belong to both.

Corporal punishment (being hit, with a hand, cane, stick, belt, slipper…)

Cleaning the school recreation area

Being told off

Writing lines

Given extra homework

Given detention

Put on report card

Being expelled

Being suspended

Given extra classes

Standing up in front of the whole school

Standing in a corner

Putting hands on head

Standing outside the classroom

Being sent to the Principal

Sending a letter to/phoning parents

Are the punishments always fair? Sometimes you might think that the punishment (to you or a friend) is unfair. Look at the following descriptions of rule breaking, and the punishments given.

Do you agree with them? If you don’t you must say which punishment you think is fairer, and why.

a. Jake goes to Dalston High School. It is against the school rules to run in the corridors of the school. Jake did, because he was late for a lesson. A teacher saw him do this and made him stay after school and do some grammar exercises as a punishment.

b. At Chiswick High School Andrew was punished for throwing a book at a teacher as `a joke`. He was expelled.

c. Anthony would never do his homework. His teacher finally decided that she had must punish him, and sent him to see the Principal.

What punishments would you give students in the following situations?

1. Adam was 13 and he came from a poor family who tried very hard to give him all the support he needed at school. Adam was envious of his colleagues who had better clothes and equipment than he, and he used to occasionally steal small things from them, like books, pens and, once, a calculator. He got caught stealing the calculator and admitted that he had taken other things too.

2. Two of the older students in the school, a girl and a boy, were reported to be trying to sell drugs to younger children at school. They are caught `red-handed` trying to sell some cannabis to some 13 year olds.

3. Simon, who is 14, is the leader of a small gang of boys who think they are tough.

They go around the school threatening smaller students and demanding money and valuables. They say they will hit them if they don’t agree. Most of the younger students are too frightened to say anything. Eventually they are reported by a parent whose daughter has just had a mobile phone stolen by Simon and his gang.

What kind of school would you like to create. Share your ideas: what will the building be like,

what kind of teachers  will work there, what rules will it have, will there be any punishment?