Say "Please!"

Year 4 pupils (Daniel, Ashantae, Jade and Kelsey) have been doing some of their own action research. They wanted to find out how many people having school dinners said 'please' and 'thankyou' when choosing their meal. So they created their own data collection sheets and stood by the school dinner serving area listening

to how the pupils and cooks spoke to one another. This is what they find out:

• About half of all pupils said 'please' and thankyou' when ordering their meal
• The kitchen staff were very polite to pupils
• Some pupils just pointed

These 4 investigators are going to come back and do some more research after half term. They all felt that everyone could be more polite when ordering. "If we all don't have manners", said Daniel, "how are we all going to get along?" Ashantae commented that better manners would mean "a better school for all of us".

 

What do you think?

Are we a polite school or could we show more respect to each other in the way we speak?