Our Kids Care - a celebration for the UN International Day of Peace 2021

Our Kids Care

In Celebration of the UN International Day of Peace 2021

OUR KIDS CARE Volume 2 2021 Thank you to the students, who have submitted articles for this booklet. We hope the messages shown in them will help us all think about peaceful ways of living and help to build harmony in the home, school, community and the World.

I love the mixtures of names that show multicultural origins, but still acknowledge the Nyoongar people as the traditional custodians of this area.

‘The International Day of Peace’ is on the 21st of September each year. This booklet will be available for our celebration on Sunday 19th 2021.

Sally Herzfeld

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So, one time in my old school, there was this place where you can play basketball and tennis. And being the nice person I am, when I see a ball out of the place, I throw it back in. and then my bullies would just keep hitting them out and I kept throwing back. And I had this friend who I’ll name “Verruca” that instead of helping me, she just laughs and laughs at my face.

One time I was playing tag with Verruca, and I ran to the toilet. Then out of nowhere she came in, insulted me, and left. (And I said good riddance at her graduation) PS: turns out some crazy person told her I was a bossy friend How I could’ve solved these two was if I stopped with the tennis balls and left verruca first

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One time me and an early friend went to the playground at recess, we were going to the flying fox but these kids that were in year 6 or something were using it. We asked them if we could use it and they said no, we had this big argument and then they left and then we realized recess was nearly over.

When we played volleyball in sport every time the ball came towards me, I would freak out and mess up.

My teammates would tell me to do better but I kept saying “IT’S A FEAR OF MINE” but no one would understand my strange fear. During all this the teacher was just like “this is fine”.

One time in my old school we did leader ball practice for the athletics carnival. While we were practicing, I accidentally ran the wrong way and when I came back, the people behind me just made me feel bad.

Peace One time in year 2 me and my friend were making treasure maps for each other and then when I got home my parents got a message saying that I got blamed for beating up this kid. But after lots of interviews and nearly 2 months they finally figured out that it was an other kid with the same name as mine and his friend who actually did it in the end.

Conflict There is this time when Neil, Bicky and I wanted to build a base so I started finding rocks so we could build a wall for a base but then when I was searching for more rocks Bicky started throwing them on the road. Neil and I started saying no don’t do that you will just get your self in trouble but guess what he did not listen so all the rocks I gathered up where scattered on the road and even one of them hit a CAR. They drove in and the principal had to come up to us and tell us off so we had to go to the principal office. They let Neil go first and then me and then Bicky. I don’t know what Bicky said but they came back FOR ME and Bicky said that I made him do that. That was really unfair but I said that I did not so I did not get in trouble. I handled this well, because I just sat there and took it so I did not scream or anything I just handled it well even though I did not do it.

Conflict Makady Conflict in my life when I was in Kindy, I rocked up to school with hair everywhere and my collar up.

This bully came up to me and said that I looked like a can out of the bin I yelled at her and said that you were jealous after the fight I told the teacher and she said that she didn’t mean to say that, and I believed it (OMG!!!!)

To stop that from happening I shouldn’t have yelled at her that she was just jealous, or I would let mum help me get dressed so I didn’t look like an absolute weirdo when I rocked up to school.

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One Saturday night my sister was on my bed, and I was pushing her off with my foot and then I pushed too fast and kicked her in the teeth.

I could’ve solved this problem by not worry if she’s on my bed or she could’ve solved the problem by just listening the first time and getting of my bed.

Conflict When I was about 6 or 7 my sister “Brianna” and I shared Guineapigs and we had a big cage for them. One day we went to feed them, and I went into the cage to give them their dinner. Whist I was cleaning up their cage “Brianna” locked the door and ran away. I was sitting there in the cage in winter, pitch black darkness with the noises of owls and scary squeaking noises (now I know that they were the guineapigs). So, I started to yell and scream for my mum to unlock the cage. About 20 minutes later she couldn’t find me, so she came out to find me locked in the guineapig cage. The next morning, we had some complains from the people on our street that there was some load noise that kept them from sleeping. We both got in lots of trouble.

We could have avoided this by me calming down and finding a quite way to get out of the cage and me not getting mad at my sister when I got out, but she should learn not to lock me in the cage because It is not nice to lock people in somewhere especially if they are claustrophobic.

Conflict peace Conflict is a hard thing to get out of once your have conflict. Conflict is when you have anger for someone and at that moment you don’t want anything to do with them so you keep doing mean things to them until they cry creating a civil war.

Family conflict Some conflict that has happened in my family is when my parents have been angry at each other leading to divorce.

Conflict can be physical and mental physical conflict is where they start punching you and hurting you and mental conflict hurts your heart and makes you feel down.One way to get out of conflict is to give them a gift or something to show how much you care about them.

Conflict When I was at footy training with my brother’s team, they versed the team that was a year older than them and they needed players, so I joined in. I was in the backline and a kid kept standing on my toes. By the way this was when I was in year two playing against year 5s. So, I said stop. Then he said no so he kept doing it. The only parent around was my dad but he was umpiring down the other end, so I pushed him. The he got angry and ripped my freo shirt that had my name on it given to me by dads friend.

I could’ve run up to my dad and told him and then he could’ve told him off instead of pushing him and then him beating me up.

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Grace

Grace To me Peace looks like the way I’ve blended the colours together in this painting. Peace is different people and cultures coming together.

The colours in this painting represent different personalities coming together and getting along. That’s what peace looks like.

Peace Freya

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George Family Flag Book

by Ava and Nathan George Universal Great Brotherhood and Symphony of Peace Prayers.

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A conflict I had at my old school in year 2 was about bullying where two of my friends were talking to these three year 6 kids about why they sat in the same place to eat lunch and recess all the time. They would sit away from everyone else and my 2 friends were teasing them for it. At first, I didn’t really get involved and would always just walk away so that I wouldn’t get in trouble. But my friends still managed to convince me to join in. I didn’t really say much. All I did was awkwardly watch these year 6 students get bullied by year 2’s.

I don’t know how much they were hurt by the comments that my 2 friends were saying. Honestly, they looked more annoyed than anything. Slowly, the situation started to build up and it was a total mess. The year 6’s told the teachers (of course) and I was trying to not get told off.

In the end, I didn’t get told off because I kind of had enough of it. My 2 friends got punished and from that point, it was all over.

Marcus My conflict: In year 5 me and another girl (who is now one of my best friends) in my class picked to be partners in four an about 2 term long project. Everything was going good we had an idea, we had it all planed out. One day things were a little rocky I think we were both in a bit of a bad mood that day, and we argued about some of the silliest things like colours for the presentation. This then went on for days, weeks. A lot of the time the teachers didn’t help and we were all the time butting heads. I wouldn’t call this bulling or anything but we both said some things that we didn’t mean at the time that hurt each other. It was the night of the like end of year assembly for year 5 and we tried to get along but after that night we then butted heads still. Then it got to year 6 one of the teachers really helped out and we tried to avoid each other for a while, then after a while we would call each other on the phone during lockdown this year. We have now become really close with a matter of time and spending time with each other. We are now really good friends and I don’t think we could have sorted it out without this teacher.

Emily M I think that what has happened a while ago was a cause of corona and some people where not whirring a mask so that’s how it speeded but lucky us our continent was not harmed to much and went away Liam A conflict I have seen recently is when Africas people started raiding all the shops and buildings. It did a lot of harm because people got shot and died, and building got burned. I don’t know why it happend but if they rebuild all the building the you’d be better. If they had a better army it won’t happen again.

From Mason I was in the country, my family and I was in an Aboriginal community people respected us and my family because we have helped the community for quite some time.

I was at a school in a place called Mullerwa and a boy did not think of me to be able to be in Australia because I was not his type of person (Aboriginal) and since I was the only white girl in that class, so he decided that he would throw a big block at me right in the nose and the top of my head. I then did not go to school for another 2 weeks because I thought that I did not belong.

The conflict was that he did not think that I was suppose to be there in his country and town.

I think that I just need to be careful where I go from now to make sure that everyone is happy but it is also so sad to see that people think that they need to do that to people who are not their Race and I think that it should not matter whatever you are wherever you from from you are the same as everyone and everything else I do not see the point of people fighting for their Race since we should all be the same and all be united as one and there should never ever be exclusion from people who are different treat each other with respect and have the same rights to others.

Me and this boy had a fight a long time a go the cause was we were both annoying each other We were skipping in the Jim by the way and the cure was that a teacher gave as a detention.

Zakariya A conflict that has and is happening is COVID-19. I know that it effects everyone in the world. It caused emotional harm to the people that had COVID and to their families, friends and anyone who knew them. It happened by a person that lived in China - I think - got the virus and spread it to people and then they spread it to other people and then they spread it to other people and so on. It can be resolved by everyone social distancing, everyone wearing masks, everyone going into lockdown and lots of people listening and supporting the government’s and premiers ideas and boundaries. We can ‘grow’ from this experience by writing down what has happened to us and learn to listen and acknowledge what the people in charge say to do and act quickly.

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I feel at peace in nature. I like being in the mountains where it is quiet and calm.

Alexis

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Peace is when everything is calm and people are getting along. I feel calm when I am with my chickens.

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When I was at at School in the years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 I was bullied by my “friends” because of my ears and there size… I have this friend and we are like sisters she told me about what they were calling me e.g Monkey, Dumbo, Strange, big ears and other.

They said this behind my back for 5 years and they said on the day I left to Helena College they told me about that I have big ears and that will never change and no one will like me because of that.

At Helena College I have felt like that was never said to me and I feel safer now.

I’m so grateful for the one friend who told me…

I still see them round and they still make fun of me, but I don’t care about them. I have better friends now an dim so grateful for them.

Abbey Heres my conflict…

So once I had just joined HC in Yr5 with my bestfriend, we were having an amazing time.

But then this girl came along and started hanging out with us, but the problem was the this girl didnt want anything to do with me and just wanted me to leave them alone, but at the time, I hadn’t made any friends and my bff was the one person I liked to hang out with.

So she got really mad and blew up at me, but my bestfriend was sick of it so we called a teacher in, the teacher explained to my bff that she had to give her opinion and it ended up with the girl becoming her bestfriend and me becoming only a friend, but that wasn’t enough for the girl, she wanted me gone, I mean like she didnt even want me around, so we had another fight and blew up at eachother, and the teacher came and told us off and when we moved to year six, everything changed, we started becoming friends and to this day, we are bestfriends even though I have many best friends.

That is my story, and it all got better after time, after a whole year!

From Maddie

Our School Song The Yr 5s of 1981 at Helena College won a United Nations award for this song which is sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda.

Once a jolly group of kids sat down in the hills near Perth They wanted to settle all their fights So they thought and talked and they wrote about their squabables And how they could have put them right Think about each other, Understand each other, See the other’s point of view and try to compromise This solution they tried and it worked amongst that group of kids Couldn’t the world try it too and unite?

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PEACE (conflict) One time in year 1 my friends (they were boys) were messing around in the girls’ toilets and I didn’t realise that it was the girls’ toilets so I went in to tell them off. One of my friends’ mums was picking him up early and she heard him in the girls’ toilets so she yelled at him and told the principle. I wouldn’t have got told off but I yelled at the principle so I had to sit at the office for a week and my friends didn’t. I should have spoken politely.

Conflict In year 2, I was playing with Owen and this kid called Bicky was throwing rocks on the road and like hitting cars. This car pulled in and tolled the principle. Owen and me got in trouble for it even though me and Owen weren’t doing anything but telling him no to. We had to sit in the principal’s office for a bit and Bicky also blamed it on us. And to solve this me and Owen should have just walked away so we dident get in trouble and we wouldent have got in a fight with Bicky.

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Treetops’ Year 7 and 8 students have been studying the book The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.

This week, as a precursor to our Peace Day activities, their teacher asked the students to examine two conflicts that occur in the book: the conflict between the boys Shmuel and Bruno as a result of an unintended outcome that put Shmuel in conflict with Lieutenant Kotler. The following is a sample of the students’ thoughts on this:•

In English we are studying a book called ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ and this is about the Holocaust. This describes conflict and resolution. Lieutenant Kotler asked Shmuel if he had something to eat because Bruno had given some food to Shmuel, but Shmuel is not supposed to eat. Lieutenant Kotler can tell that Shmuel has had food and thinks he has stolen it and so he starts to yell at Shmuel.

Shmuel says that Bruno gave it to him and so Lieutenant Kotler yells at Bruno but Bruno says he didn’t and Shmuel gets beaten. I think it could have been resolved by Lieutenant Kotler just telling Shmuel off.

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In chapter 15, there is conflict between Bruno and Shmuel. This was when Bruno had said that Shmuel was not his friend and Bruno had felt so guilty and terrible so he wanted to make it up to him. This was resolved peacefully by Shmuel and Bruno silently shaking hands because Shmuel knew that Bruno was sorry by the amount of times before the silence he had said sorry.

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We are currently reading about ‘The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas’. In Chapter 15 there was a conflict between Bruno and Shmuel. This was because Bruno betrayed Shmuel. This was resolved peacefully by Bruno meeting up and apologising to Shmuel.

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We are reading ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ in chapter 15 there is a conflict between Lt. Kotler and Shmuel this was not resolved peacefully. It could have been resolved peacefully by talking and understanding everyone’s perspective.

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When Shmuel gets accused of stealing food from Bruno’s fridge, instead of beating Shmuel Kotler should’ve giving Shmuel a stern talking to. Even if Bruno allowed him food hurting him doesn’t help the situation because he feels like Bruno’s act of kindness giving him food was more of a death sentence to getting beaten by Kotler than helping his hunger. Talking to him would have gotten the message across easier.

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I like listening to relaxing music in my bedroom.

That feels very peaceful to me .

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Jordan’s says 2 cups of mint (the leaf) love Fresh air Sleeping of nice dreams Cuddling beanie boos

Hayden’s says friendship Full buckets love hearts Fresh air

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(The idea of a ‘full bucket’ is that everyone walks around with an invisible bucket over them which drips when someone is negative towards them and overflows when we’re feeling good. We fill each other’s buckets in class by letting each other know what we like about others on a particular day)

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Conflict My conflict stories: - Stickeez fight: A few months ago, Jimmy and I were at home and Dad was practising for his band with his bandmates from Bunbury. His band was called Richo and the Butchers. Mum had gone to the shops. So, Jim was playing Lego and I were playing Stickeez. (You will know what these are if you go to Coles) There was only one of Connor Corn. When Jim saw me playing with them, he wanted to play with them too. (He does this a lot) So, when I pretended to go to camp with them, and I went to the toilet, Jim saw his chance. (Connor Corn, Finn Fish, and Leo Leek were his favourite, and there was only one of each) He stole his favourites and started playing with them in the lounge room. When I got out of the toilet, I knew Jim had stolen his favourites because I couldn’t find them. So, I started yelling at him.

When he ran away with the stickeez, I chased him. When I wrestled him to the ground, he screamed and yelled stop. But I was an idiot a few months ago, so I didn’t. I grabbed his hand and tried to grab the stickeez. When I failed, Jim squirmed out of my grip, and ran into the kitchen.

After 10 more minutes of this, he

finally gave up when Dad came in and gave me two of the Stickeez. But if you remember, there was 3 stickeez.

Connor Corn (his favouritest Stickeez) was the one that was left. Because there was only one, I wanted it a lot.

I pushed him, shoved him, and did some stuff I did when I was an idiot a few months ago. When Jim got out of my grip, he went and got Dad. Because all dad wanted to do was practise with his band (that’s a lot of swear words, folks), he was in a bad mood. When he heard the story, he yelled at Jim for snatching it off me for 5 minutes. But that was not the worst.

He yelled at me for the physical stuff I did for half an hour. When he was done, he took Connor Corn and said he was putting the silly bit of plastic in the bin. he always jokes when he says stuff like that, so I was surprised when he put it in the bin! When he went back outside, I remembered that Mum emptied the bin that day, so Connor Corn was the only thing in it. I grabbed Connor out of the bin and (please don’t judge me, I was an idiot back then, as I have said before) started talking to it. Oh, Connor! How I am so glad you are ok. My dad can be

Conflict

By Charlotte Wilson Conflict is a serious/strong disagreement or argument, typically an extended one that may lead to physical or verbal violence. It includes arguing and fighting that leads to punishment, although the punishment might be given to, the victim instead bully. When you look back on conflict it may seem funny or silly.

Another time that I’ve experienced conflict was when Lily was mad at me for becoming friends with Beth, who she didn’t like, so she told me to stop being friends with Beth.

I didn’t want to stop being friends with Beth, so we argued about it. We eventually resolved the conflict by talking it out and by me explaining that I have to be able to make my own friends and if Beth turns out to be like what Lily says she is, I’ll deal with the consequences, but I have to be able to make my own judgement of people without her hovering over my shoulder. Luckily Beth turned out to be a nice person so I’m still friends with both Lily and Beth. (The names used in this aren’t the people’s real names)

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mean sometimes. So, I went back to playing with all the stickeez, and Jim went back to his Lego. But when I saw him with Connor Corn, I thought he had stolen it again!

But it turns out, that there was a double in the toy room, so I didn’t need to do all that stuff to Jim for the other one. But at least now, we both had one. So, I went back to playing.

When Dad finished his band practise, he came inside and saw Connor Corn.

He asked if I had gotten it out of the bin. I said no, and he believed me. So, at least now he was out of his bad mood.

What I should have done: I should of not have nearly killed my little brother and I also should of never of lied to Dad about the bin thing.

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Women’s Equality Poem

By Lucille Women’s Equality!

We all need rights, You really wouldn’t want it To end up in fights.

We deserve jobs Because we’re HUMAN TOO! And not just ones, that end up in sobs

To all those men and boys not giving us our share Telling us we’re worthless We really couldn’t care What a man thinks

Honestly what’s the point Of bringing us down, Because really when people do it They look like a clown!

We can be stronger, smarter too then all the men and boys, Yes, that’s true We deserve a life!

We’re also human, just like you, And if you don’t get that Then I’ll give you a clue,

Where we’re not in strife A life where maybe We’re not just a wife But a woman with choices.

Because we are strong, we are beautiful, we are powerful And we lift each other up And there shouldn’t be dispute Around if that’s true

If you don’t get it then, you’re on your own!

If you’re a woman or girl reading this You are strong, smart, beautiful too Give men a hiss if they tell you otherwise

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People should have equal rights That is certain And if they don’t, we should reunite The rights with the people and the people with the rights.

UN INTERNATIONAL DAY of PEACE 2021

Shaping Peace Together

A celebration of the International Day of Peace. There will be entertainment and short speeches on the veranda and then we will make a circle with our banners and take some photos for publication. The theme is about Shaping Peace Together in the home, school, community and world. It is hoped this will be an annual event in Darlington.

When: Sunday 19 September 2021, 3.30 – 4.30 pm

Where: Veranda outside Darlington Hall and the tennis court end of the Oval Who: Representatives of various groups and individuals who would like to join people from all around the World in helping to spread this message Organisations Involved: UN Association of Australia (WA) Treetops Montessori School Helena College Darlington Primary School The Universal Great Brotherhood Australia Bahai of Mundaring Darlington Review Swan Harmony Singers St Cuthberts Anglican Church Quakers Alternatives to Violence Project

Further information: Sally Herzfeld: sallyherzfeld@ozemail.com.au Manita Beskow: mani1@iinet.net.au Websites: Peace One Day: https://www.peaceday2021.com/events/peace-one-day/ International Day of Peace: https://internationaldayofpeace.org/

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