This week’s Articles of the Week are: Article 17, 28 and 31.

For World Book Day, this week we are recognising the following rights.

Article 17 – You have the right to collect information from the media and to be protected from information that may harm you.
Article 28- You have the right to education.
Article 31- You have the right to play and relax by doing things such as sports, music or drama.

Reading books is an important skill that can help us in the following ways:

• We can learn new things about the world.
• We can enjoy a story that makes us laugh, cry or get excited.
• It can help us calm down or get to sleep.
• It helps our mental health, makes us feel better or forget about worries we might have.
• It inspires us.
• It makes us more empathetic towards other people as we learn about their experience.
• We can use our imagination.
• We can share with friends and family.
• We learn new skills.
• We learn new words and phrases.
• We get ideas for our own writing and stories.

Can you think of any other ways?