An interesting range of responses from the children to the latest Collective Worship theme of Trust.
February 2019
Who do you trust? Why? When?
- D because I trust her to be alone with me
- Mum holds me to reach something
- Friends don’t tell your secret
- Trust dogs not to ‘get you’
- Family always look after me
- Gran knows lots of stuff to help with my homework
- Friends – when I am alone they come to ask me to play
- My brother & sister – we play nicely together
- Teachers (2) – teach us to learn
- My mum and dad (2) – makes things for me, help us and look after me
- Doctors (2) – to give you injections
- Cat
- My brother wants to play with me
- Wider family like grandparents and cousins
- The council
- The government
- My friends (2) – they look out for you and you can’t be friends if you don’t trust them
- B because I always play with him.
Why should we trust people?
- If we fall down there will be someone there
- The world would be unhappy if we didn’t
- They might be able to help you
- If you don’t trust then they might say that they don’t want to be your friend – [We discussed this as a class afterwards – possible bullying issue or misunderstanding friendships]
- If you didn’t, you’d be lonely
- You wouldn’t know what to do
- If you don’t they might not like it
- You should trust the teachers to keep you out of danger
- If you didn’t trust anyone it would be boring
- Because we love them.
When should you not trust somebody?
- If someone is mean or naughty (2)
- If you trusted someone before and they broke your trust
- People you don’t know on games
- If they hurt you (2)
- If they hurt your feelings (2)
- Let you down
- People you don’t know on line
- If they’re cruel, I wouldn’t trust them
- When a stranger asks you to do something (2) sily.
Who trusts you?
- My friends (4) – I keep secrets
- Mum and family (3) – I help her
- TA
- My daddy to make good progress with my times tables
- Animals (2) to walk/ feed
- Police officers trust us not to do the wrong thing
- Myself
- Siblings.
How could we help people to trust?
- Tell them to trust
- Be kind (2)
- Don’t talk behind their backs
- Be positive
- Don’t tell other people’s secret
- Trust them – show them how to trust
- By saying sorry
- Helping them
- Not hurt them
- Try to help them make friends
- By giving them information
- By saying that others can share your things
- Help them to get out of a big hole.
