Rights Respecting Schools Award Level 1 2015-16

What’s all this rights stuff about? UNCRC stands for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It’s a list of rights that all children, everywhere in the world, have.

What are these rights for? The rights on the list are all the things that children and young people need to make sure that they are healthy, happy and safe

How many rights are there? The UN convention consists of 54 articles in total, with each article referring to a right. UNICEF uses the UNCRC as a framework for its work for all the world’s children and has developed the Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA). Here at Keelman’s Way School, pupils are learning about many of the rights through their involvement with UNICEF and a Rights and Respecting ethos throughout the whole school. The main rights they are learning are: ¨ The right to be listened to and say what you think should happen ¨ The right to have privacy ¨ The right to learn and go to school ¨ The right to play ¨ The right to have special care and support if you are disabled.

How many rights are there? There are 54 articles in the list, and 42 of these are rights for children (the others are about how adults and governments should work together to make sure all children get all their rights

Responsibilities go with these rights! How do we do that? We need to talk to each other, using the language of rights and responsibilities, to make sure we receive our rights and responsibilities For example Article 28 says I have a right to learn. How can I make sure that others learn?

Article 29 Sports Relief day Fair Trade Children in Need National Doodle day

Article 31

Article 28

Article 24

Article 16

Article 6

Article 23

Are these children receiving their rights?

How will we see a difference in school? “Help us understand that others have rights too and that we should help them because they may be in need and are just as important as us” (UNICEF). Feel free to speak to RRSA co-ordinators Fran Mears –teacher of Orange2 Michael Johnston- teacher of Indigo