Today we read a book called The Pirates Next Door. It's about a family of pirates who move into a town - but the people who live there don't want pirates as neighbours! They think they're dirty and scruffy, they fire cannons from their ship, and they were digging up the roundabout in the middle of the night! Only Matilda was friendly to the pirates. But when the pirates headed back out to sea, they left a special present behind for everyone, which made them change their minds about whether pirates were really all that bad..!
We talked about how people were feeling in the story and why most of the people in the town didn't want the pirates around. We discussed whether it was fair to try and get someone thrown out of a place just because they were different and you didn't like them, and how the pirates might have felt about being treated so unkindly.
We realised that lots of our values link with the story, mostly because the people in the town were not showing them! They weren't caring or showing friendship, they didn't want to share their town, they didn't trust the pirates, they weren't co-operating and all working together to make the town a nice place to live, and they weren't tolerating the pirates.
We decided that if some pirates moved in next door to us, we'd be very kind, friendly and tolerant. If anyone moves next door to us, or near us, or into our class - we are going to show them kindness and tolerance, even if they are a little bit different to us - just like Matilda did!
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