Close your eyes and imagine your ideal classroom, a place where everyone feels happy and safe to be and to learn.
- What would it look like?
- Imagine you are looking around, what can you see?
- What would it sound like?
- Listen carefully - what can you hear?
- How would it feel to be in that classroom?
Compile a list based on what you imagined. Record ideas on a piece of paper.
- What did you see?
- What did you hear?
- How did you feel?
From the list, create some pledges, e.g, ‘I will be kind’ ‘I will not shout’ ‘I will listen’ ‘I will share’.
On a strip of paper, draw a self portrait and write a pledge on it.
Bring your strip into school and it will be turned into a paper chain with everybody else's and displayed across the classroom.