World Children's Day 2019

Lesson: PSHE and citizenship

Class: Whole School Gallery Items Year: 2019 - 2020

As a Rights-Respecting School it is very important that we celebrate World Children's Day! This year the day was even more important as it celebrated 30 years since the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) were agreed.

Our Rights-Respecting Schools Ambassadors and teachers led lots of activties in their classes to help us all to think about the rights of the child and why they are important. Each class, led by the RRS amabassadors, played some games to remind us of all the different rights - from musical chairs in Y1 to charades in Y6. Following on from this they each did a specific activty linked to the UNCRC:

*Y1 talked about their rights 

*Y2 thought about their right to an education and what they would change in their classroom or school

*Y3 discussed their right to be heard; how we listen to pupil voice in our school and ideas for helping other children to use theirs

*Y4 learned more about duty-bearers and the role adults have in making sure children access their rights

*Y5 carried out reserach in First News newspapers and watched Newsround to find current stories which link to children's rights - thinking about when children have been denied or enabled to have their rights

*Y6 investigated what other world events happened in 1989 (the year the UNCRC was agreed) and though about how these impacted on children's lives then

All children have taken part in the Send My Friend to School' campaign. This year's theme is 'unlocking education' - the children have thought about the barriers to education for some children and how we can help chnage this. We will send our ideas off to our local MP to take to Parliament. 

Our fabulous RRS team helped to lead our special assembly and created an A to Z of children's rights to help everyone to remember.

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