Values Newsletters

Dear Parents and Carers,

We hope you all had a lovely half term! This half term we are focusing 
on the value of Cooperation. We will think and reflect upon the 
importance of cooperation in making a happy and successful school 
and home life, with each of us remembering and taking on all of our 
values to help us cooperate fully. We hope that you and your family 
will join with us as we promote this value in school.

COOPERATION REFLECTION POINTS

· Cooperation exists when people work together toward a common 
goal.
· A person who chooses to cooperate creates good feelings and wishes for other people completing the
same task.
· Cooperation is concerned with respect for one another.
· By staying aware of my values I am helping to cooperate.
· Cooperation exists when people work together toward a common goal. 
“By staying aware of my values, I am helping to cooperate.”
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Values activities to try at home with your family

CONTINUOUS STORY— (Ideal for car journeys!) 
The rules are simple. One person creates a story line and everybody in turn adds a few sentences until the 
story is complete or everybody gets tired.

HUMAN KNOT 
Can you co-operate as a family to solve the human knot problem? Everyone stands in a circle and holds 
hands with someone else in the circle. However, you cannot hold hands with either person standing 
directly beside you. Then, without letting go, everyone must climb, bend, twist and turn to untangle the 
circle. To heat things up, add blindfolds to one or two family members.

FAMILY TIMELINE 
Get yourselves a pad of post it notes. Write down facts about your family. One fact per piece of paper, 
these could be about birthdays, family events or interests.

JELLY BEAN HUNT 
Buy a large bag of jelly beans (or similar) and note all the colours that are in the bag. Give each member of 
the family a different colour and a small bag. Spread all the sweets outside or inside and when you shout 
GO, everyone has to collect their colour sweet.

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SAVE THE EGG 

This activity can get messy and may be suitable for older children who can follow safety guidelines when 
working with raw eggs. Teams must work together to find a way to “save” the egg, in this case an egg 
dropped from a specific height. That could involve finding the perfect soft landing, or creating a device that 
guides the egg safely to the ground. Let their creativity work here.

PICK UP STICKS

1. Empty a box of straws in a pile on the table or on the floor. 2. Take turns picking up a straw without 
moving any other straws. You get to keep all the straws you pick up.
“Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.”
Earl Nightingale