Boy: Today nobody at school listened to me and I REALLY needed to tell them something!
Mum: What did you need to tell them?
Boy: I can’t remember, but NOBODY would listen!
Mum: Well, it’s a hot day and sometimes people get a bit grumpy on hot days and might not want to listen as much.
Boy: But I listened to THEM!
Mum: Sometimes you’ll just have days when you feel like nobody’s listened, unfortunately it’s part of life. I have that sometimes – some days I feel like nobody’s listened to me at work. What do you think I should do then?
Boy: [Thinks for a while]… You should get them to stop thinking about the hot sun by doing something exciting.
Mum: What might that be?
Boy: You could ask them if they wanted something to eat. Or to drink.
Mum: Sounds like a good plan – they’d have to listen if their mouth was full!
Boy: I don’t know. We had to say what we liked doing best from the year. I put, “I liked the cooking”.
Mum: Ah – because you’re all leaving the class in a couple of weeks and will be going to your next one in September?
Boy: Yes. I really want Mrs C back.
Mum: What does Mrs C do?
Boy: She helps the teacher in the classroom. She works REALLY hard. She does really lovely work. She’s been there since it was built – on the FIRST day, when it opened, she was there and she went in and started working. She doesn’t even take breaks! If she was THROWN out and told to go away – she would just go back in and work. Once, she was told to go away for a break, and she didn’t!
Mum: Mrs C sounds like she likes her work. What work does she do?
Boy: I don’t know, she’s always too busy working and we’re always too busy learning… I know she cuts out lots of pictures.
Mum: Why does she cut out pictures – for the class to use?
Boy: No, she just cuts them out all the time. I don’t know what she uses them for. Mysterious…
Me: It’s the rules that the school children wanted to make when I was doing the speaking work with them.
D: What were their rules?
Me: One was that they wanted the group to all turn their phones off. Another was that they wanted the group to tell the truth about what they thought of each other’s speeches, but to be nice about it. Another was to be quiet and listen…
D: We have those rules at my school!
Me: What are your rules?
D: Be Safe; Be Kind; Be Helpful; Tell the truth; Listen – No, they don’t start with ‘be’ – every rule has to start with a ‘be’. But there IS a listen one, that starts with ‘be’.
D: There was something really funny that I saw in an advert. There was this trick – it was number 21. It was something that you put on the floor and then a mummy came along and saw it and told the dog off because it was a pretend poo! How funny is that? Because the dog didn’t know what she said and he just looked at her like, “Huh?’!
Boy: Today nobody at school listened to me and I REALLY needed to tell them something!
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