To continue with our work towards this goal we have twinned toilets!
This means that for every toilet in our school, money has been given to plant a toilet in Africa so that the children there have a clean place to go to the toilet and it is washed away so that the surrounding area is sanitary.
This is so important and we couldn’t believe that children had to live without having a toilet and living in areas where their waste could be surrounding them.
The rights respecting champions have been working on ideas for promoting our global goal.
To begin around the school, they have created posters to ensure their peers don’t waste water by keeping taps on.
As well as this they have devised a new system at lunch time whereby the water that is left in cups is not thrown away and wasted but reused by being poured into jugs and kept to water the plants inside and outside of the school.
The Rights Respecting champions organised a Rights Respecting Day focussing on SuperYou. Everyone had to come dressed as their super power which was what they were good at!
The champions decided they wanted every class to create a campaign video for ten rights that they selected.
Each class focused on those rights, discussed and learnt more about them and then created a campaign video for this blog! Check them out!
After 3 sessions with Kip and Elfyn we now have a complete song about our Children’s Rights.
We helped to compose the music and importantly created the lyrics to represent how important we believe it to be for every child to have access to their rights and for the grown ups who can make a difference to this to listen and take responsibility for this… and us too!
So here us… ks2 performing the final version of our song Every Child in our last session with Kip and Elfyn
We hope to share it in our performances and with our local community to raise awareness.
Today we had two visitors in school, Kip and Elfyn. They worked with Dahl class to compose a song to help raise awareness for children’s rights.
Prior to this the Rights Respecting Champions chose 10 rights that they thought were most important and relevant to the school. These were: Article 28 Right to education, Article 13 freedom of expression, Article 17 access to information from the media, Article 31 leisure,play and culture, Article 30 children from minority groups, Article 12 respect for the views of a child, Article 42 knowledge of rights, Article 15 freedom of association, Article 29 goals of education, Article 23 children with disability.
Using these rights Dahl Class created lyrics with Kip, while Elfyn composed the melody. They created a song called Every Child which highlights all the rights and gives reasons why each child should have them and why children should be listened to.
In our next session Dahl Class will complete the song and then begin to share it with the rest of the school as part of our children rights campaign.
KS2 had our local policeman in to talk about safety on the internet, as some children across the years were experiencing problems in the online community. The policeman discussed with them how to exercise their right to be protected and what their responsibility was to their peers to ensure that they are in a safe and friendly environment online, whether that be on social media or with online gaming.
Today was World Children’s Day. Across the school we looked at children in other countries. We found out what a day in their life was like and identified whether they were getting their children’s rights.
Potter Class focussed on two children in Brazil. They found out that the children had to have large iron gates to protect their house and were not allowed to play outside. The boy rode is bike on the roof! The children discussed the children’s right to be safe and protected. They talked about how their mum tried to keep them safe and allowed them to have their right but the environment they lived in did not adhere to the CRC article.
Later on in the day they looked at different scenarios that may happen in school. The children talked about the right it linked to and what their responsibilities were to ensure that all children have their rights respected in school.
Welcome to our new Blog Page where we will share with you the things that we are doing at school to help children learn more about ‘Rights’. We hope you enjoy looking at the Blog.
Make sure you talk to your children all about being a ‘Rights Respecting School’.
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