We are thinking about the demands of living at within our

families, including our family here at school.

Homes and Families

When do you find you have to give and take at home? When do you find you have to forgive and be

forgiven?

Bedtimes

TelevisionHomework

School run

Chores

Meal times

Think about the family of the school.

Left Out Together

There’s the crowd of them again,

The boys with their girls,

Carefree,

Laughing and chatting and going somewhere –

Not including me.

They never say,

‘Why don’t you come too?’

I wander away

And pretend I don’t care –

But I do.

And when they come back

They’ve got it all to remember

And share.

I wouldn’t know:

I wasn’t there.

I tried once to be friends with a girl;

Well, actually, I’ve tried twice.

But – this is the truth –

I’ve always thought

That you looked quiet and nice.

You look as though

You might be feeling the same:

Left on the sidelines,

Out of the game...?

You are?

I was actually wondering whether

We could team up and both be

Left out together.

Eric Finney

Left out

It feels as if pins

Are prickling my eyes,

My face is burning hot,

A firework is trying

To go off inside me.

My feet are glued to the spot.

My hands are rocks in my pockets.

I want to run away,

But my legs are rooted to the ground

Like trees. I have to stay

And listen

To everyone calling me names

And not letting me

Join in with their games.

Celia Warren

How have we got on?

Have we thought about how living in our family can sometimes throw up problems we have to think hard about?

Have we thought about how we need to include people in our school family?

Have we thought about how different families may have different problems?

Have we thought about how we need to work at getting on with people and there must be give and take at home and at

school?