Year 5 had their last whole class training session with Miss McClelland. The next two sessions will be solely for the chosen Peer Mediators.
They started with a game as always.

The children have really got the hang of working well as a team, especially when it means they have to sacrifice their part in the game in order to win.The children came up with some good qualities they think Peer Mediators need:
- Confidence
- Patience
- Tolerance
- Caring
- Polite
- Co-operative
- Democratic
- Good listener
- Good thinker
- Peaceful
- Responsible
- Creative in problem solving
- Independent
- Trustworthy
The children then wrote down their top three qualities…
Once that was done the children had to think of classmates who had the three qualities they wrote down. They had to give their papers to the most qualified person.

Shayla received a lot of the papers and the class decided it was clear she always showed the qualities, she always has a smile and has a “good heart”.
Then the children were told what the job of Peer Mediator involved:
Some of your lunchtime
Later lunch
Twice a week
The children then voted for classmates that wished to be considered for the job. There were only 12 places available.

All the nominations were put into a box ready to be counted.
The results will be announced as soon as possible.
A big thank you to Miss McClelland for guiding us through the training, it was a lot of fun and thought provoking.
The class thought they had learnt so many skills and got better at:
- Solving conflicts
- Confidence
- Thinking more
- Working harder
- Concentration
- Independence
- Multi tasking
- Working with others
- Sharing ideas
I think the children have been better team players and considering others feelings as well using strategies to everyone’s advantage.