Our Journey to becoming a Rights Respecting School

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Our Journey to becoming a Rights
Respecting School
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What is a Rights Respecting School ?

• The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA)
  recognises achievement in putting the United
  Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
  (CRC) at the heart of a schools planning,
  policies, practice and ethos.
• A rights-respecting school not only teaches about
  childrens rights but also models rights and
  respect in all its relationships between
  teachers / adults and pupils, between adults and
  between pupils.

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• The universality of the CRC provides a clear link
  for pupils between building up their
  rights-respecting school, understanding their
  rights and the need for childrens rights to be
  realised everywhere.
• Children and young people in rights respecting
  schools develop a stronger sense of the need to
  act for global justice.

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Why teach about rights?

• With rights come responsibilities. This helps
  children to develop a sense of their
  responsibility to respect the rights of others.

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Links with Health and Wellbeing

• As I explore the rights to which I am entitled,
  I am able to exercise these rights appropriately
  and accept the responsibilities that go with
  them I show respect for the rights of others
• A Curriculum for Excellence (Social Wellbeing)

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What do we mean by rights?

• These are not the same as wants. With the
  children we are exploring the difference between
  a want and a need and developing an understanding
  of how the UNCRC enables children and young
  people to gain access to all the things they need
  to help them develop into happy and healthy
  adults.

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Classroom Charter
Right How I can help others have their right? How Mrs Leitch helps us have this right?
The right to an education (Article 28) I must not disrupt learning for others I will help and support you in your learning
The right to express your opinion (Article 12) I must listen to others when they are sharing their opinion. I will provide lots of opportunities for you to share your own view or opinion.
The right to be treated equally (Article 2) I will treat everyone equally and fairly I will make sure everyone in the class is treated the same
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Teaching about RightsClassroom Examples
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Primary 1 made posters illustrating the rights
that they like to enjoy.
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I have the right to a name.
I have the right to shelter.
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Primary 5 learned about Article 24 as part of
health education. They explored the importance of
a childs right to the best possible health and
medical care.
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Skills and Talents Road Show feedback from
Primary 5 pupil
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The RRSA group worked with a local organisation
(Kids and co) to make healthy snacks using fair
trade fruit.
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The pupil council and RRSA group worked with Kids
and Co to make fruit kebabs and fair trade banana
loaf. We were enjoying our right to healthy food!
We used this event to help inform parents about
our right to nutritious food.
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The Right to Know!

• Articles 43-54 are about how
• adults and governments should
• work together to make sure all
• children get all their rights.

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Our Visit to the Scottish Parliament
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The pupil council and the RRSA group went to the
Scottish Parliament to meet with a representative
from SCCYP to find out more about how we could
promote the UNCRC in our local community
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We were able to speak to MSPs and find out how
they make decisions that will affect us Aaron
(P7)
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We learned how to debate and enjoyed the right
to our own opinions Eilidh (P5)
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Where, after all, do universal human rights
begin? In small places, close to homeso close
and so small they cannot be seen on any maps of
the world. Yet they are the world of the
individual person... Such are the places where
every man, woman and child seeks equal justice,
equal opportunity, equal dignity without
discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning
there, they have little meaning anywhere
Eleanor Roosevelt