Fairtrade Assembly: Bananas! (26.6.2019)
Article 2
The Convention applies to every child, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, place of birth, religion, politics, disability, and status.
Article 24
All children and young people have the right to the best health care possible, safe water to drink, nutritious food, a clean and safe environment, and information to help them stay alive, healthy and safe.
This week we learned about the cost of growing bananas, and how buying Fairtrade bananas can help to support children’s rights. Bananas as the UK’s most popular fruit. The boys and girls are keen for the school to buy Fairtrade Bananas whenever possible.
Fairtrade UNICEF Assembly 26.6.19 for blog
Rights Respecting Schools Meeting: Wednesday 12th June 2019
This afternoon we matched the UNCRC articles with our school’s equality and diversity policy. We also had a look at “How Good is OUR school?” We’ll continue this work at our next meeting.
Rights Respecting Schools Assembly: “World Day Against Child Labour” (12.6.2019)
Article 28
All children and young people have a right to a primary education.
Article 31
All children and young people have a right to relax and play.
Article 32
Governments should protect children and young people from work that is dangerous or
might harm their health or their education.
This afternoon, four of our RRSA group told the stories of child workers who are denied their right to an education. It really made us think about the value of education and helped us to empathise with children the world. Our presentation can be seen via the link below.
World Day Against Child Labour UNICEF Assembly 12.6.19 for blog
Rights Respecting Schools Assembly: “World Environment Day” (5.6.2019)
Article 12
Children have a right to say what they think should happen when decisions are being made that affect them – that is, children’s voices should be heard.
Article 13
Children have the right to get and share information.
Article 29
Education should include the development of respect for the natural environment.
This afternoon we shared a short assembly to mark World Environment Day. We shared a story which reminded us how important it is to listen to and respect the views and ideas of children. Our assembly can be viewed here: World Environment Day UNICEF Assembly 5.6
Rights Respecting School Visitors: Wednesday 5th June 2019
This morning, we welcomed Christine Gordon (Highland Council) and Jenny Price (UNICEF) to our school. A group of 20 pupils had a thought-provoking discussion with them about children’s rights, which inspired 4 of our pupils to take action to claim their rights on a local safety issue (the crossing at the the new Scotmid shop.)
Christine and Jenny were impressed by the way our pupils could talk about their rights and the way that rights were included in some of our displays.
And we wanted to show you the display that we made with the pupil council – map pins and wool were the answer. (Thanks to Mrs Laird for coming up with a solution to our unsticky post-it notes!) Although there are no ‘right’ answers, it was really interesting to show how much our school vision, values and aims support children’s rights!
We are delighted that Jenny and Christine have awarded our school with the Silver Rights Respecting School Award! 🙂 They gave Mrs Laird and Miss Mullin lots of useful feedback and ideas to help us to keep learning about, through and for children’s rights.
Rights Respecting Schools Meeting: Wednesday 29th May 2019
This afternoon we discussed our UNICEF visit on Wednesday 5th June. Some pupils will be involved in a group discussion with our vistors, and after that four RRSA pupils will give the ladies a tour of the school and playground.
After our chat we split into four groups. Two groups prepared “Right of the Fortnight” assemblies for June. One group continued work on the “Rights Quiz” for the end of term.
The fourth group worked alongside the “Learning Detectives” (Pupil Council) to link the UNCRC articles with our school’s vision, values and aims. The Learning Detectives have already done quite a bit of work on this with Mrs Laird. We all appreciated having time to talk together. We tried to make a display using post-it notes, but they kept falling off! We’ll have another go at displaying the results of this joint activity next week!
Our next assembly will be on Wednesday 5th June.
Rights Respecting Schools Meeting: Wednesday 15th May 2019
We reviewed who would be presenting our next three assemblies and had a discussion about children’s rights using a UNICEF photopack this afternoon.
Rights Respecting Schools Assembly: Amnesty International UK Guest Speaker ~ Elena Soper
“Human Rights, Children’s Rights and the work of Amnesty International” (8.5.2019)
Article 1 (definition of the child)
Everyone under the age of 18 has all the rights in the Convention.
Article 2 (non-discrimination)
The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family
background.
Article 42 (knowledge of rights)
Governments must actively work to make sure children and adults know about the Convention.
We were delighted to welcome Elena Soper, an Amnesty International Speaker, to our school this afternoon. She met with our Rights Respecting School group and talked with us about her work for Amnesty UK. She delivered a whole school assembly, where she explained the differences between Human Rights and Children’s Rights. She also told us about some of the work that Amnesty International do to protect people’s human rights all around the world. She showed us this video: We are all born free (Amnesty International)
Elena was happy to answer any of our questions. Many thanks to Elena for travelling up from Edinburgh especially to visit us!
Elena’s Amnesty International PowerPoint can be viewed via the link below:
Amnesty International Children’s Rights assembly ppt for blog
Rights Respecting Schools Assembly: “Migration and How it Benefits Society” (1.5.2019)
Article 2
The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background.
Article 4
Governments must do all they can to make sure every child can enjoy their rights by creating systems and passing laws that promote and protect children’s rights.
Article 6
Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential.
This assembly was a celebration of creativity and inventiveness! We found out about the achievements or inventions of migrants and refugees, including Rita Ora’s music (she was born in Yugoslavia); an
iPhone (Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, born in Syria); an Olympic gold medal for the UK (Mo Farah is from Somalia); The Muppets (started by Lew Grade, from Ukraine); and the Mini (designed by Alex Issigonis, from Turkey.)
Our presentation and quiz can be found via the link below:
Migration and how it benefits society UNICEF Assembly 1.5.19 pdf for blog
Rights Respecting Schools Meeting: Wednesday 20th March 2019
We thanked GP, OM, CM, AF & IL for doing such a good job presenting our assembly.
Everyone was delighted about our recent FairAware award and were keen to move things forward. We agreed to present one assembly per term about Fairtrade, so that our pupils can learn more about it.
We agreed roles and responsibilities for everyone in the group next term.
- MMac & CM: Typing out the article(s) of the fortnight onto PowerPoint slides
- BG: Mounting article(s) for display
- AB, SL, DM & BG: inserting relevant images into PowerPoint slides
- TD & AF: updating blog
- MMcC & IL: writing/compiling end of year Rights Quiz
- AB, AM & OB: practising assembly introductions and instructions
- OM & GP: assembly/meeting technicians
Our next assembly will be on Wednesday 1st May. It will be about “Migration and How it Benefits Society.” The P1 girls will have their first experience of introducing the assembly. The presenters will be: MM, TD, AB, SL and DM.
Rights Respecting Schools Assembly: “The Displacement Cycle” (20.3.2019)
Article 4
Governments must do all they can to make sure every child can enjoy their rights by creating systems and passing laws that promote and protect children’s rights.
Article 6
Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to ensure that children survive and develop to their full potential.
Article 22
If a child is seeking refuge or has refugee status, governments must provide them with appropriate protection and assistance to help them enjoy all the rights in the Convention. Governments must help
refugee children who are separated from their parents to be reunited with them.
At this assembly the pupils were thought about all the different ways people are forcibly displaced around the world. We learned that one child is forced to leave their home every six seconds. We listened to Ubah’s story, and learned how she had to leave her home in Somalia’s Puntland region, just so that she could survive. When people have to move to stay alive, we call it “forced displacement.” UNICEF say, “Every year hundreds of thousands of people move to other countries just to survive, and it is important to know that this is the way it has always been – since long before there were national borders, passports and visas.”
This assembly helped us to develop empathy for the children and adults all over the world who this happens to, and ways that we could show friendship and positivity towards them.
The Displacement Cycle UNICEF Assembly 20.3.19 online
Rights Respecting Schools Meeting: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Our RRSA group started to prepare our next assembly, which will be about the displacement cycle. Several volunteers were happy to be presenters again, so they decided how to divide up the script and had a quick practice. The rest of the group worked in mixed-age trios to research more about displacement. Our next RRSA meeting will be on Wednesday 20th March after the assembly, where we will discuss and agree what we will be doing next term.
Rights Respecting Schools Assembly: “Mother Language Day” (6.3.2019)
Article 2
Every child has the same rights regardless of their race, colour, sex, language, religion, politics, nationality, social class, place of birth or disability.
Article 30
Every child has the right to practice their own culture, language and religion.
Today we celebrated all the languages learned and spoken throughout Scotland! We heard the story of a Moroccan girl who moved to Spain, and experienced criticism for using her mother tongue with her own family. The pupils felt empathy for the girl in the story, and realised that we should respect everyone’s home languages.
Mother Language Day UNICEF Assembly 6.3.19 online
Rights Respecting Schools Assembly: “Cocoa News” (21.2.2019)
Article 2
The Convention applies to every child, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, place of birth, religion, politics, disability, and status.
Article 24
All children and young people have the right to the best health care possible, safe water to drink, nutritious food, a clean and safe environment, and information to help them stay alive, healthy and safe.
In preparation for Fairtrade Fortnight, the RRSA group presented a “news bulletin” to the school all about farming cocoa and the importance of Fairtrade chocolate. We learned how Fairtrade chocolate gives cocoa farmers a much fairer deal, allowing them to invest in better health and education for their communities. The Fairtrade Foundation want to concentrate their campaigning on Fairtrade chocolate for the next three years. This year’s campaign has a special focus on female farmers.
You can find the Fairtrade Foundation’s “Cocoa News” assembly here: Cocoa News Fairtrade Primary Assembly 21.2.2019
Rights Respecting Schools Meeting: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Our RRSA group split into two teams this afternoon – one team prepared a school assembly about children’s rights and fairtrade fortnight, which they will present on Thursday 21st February. The other team started to gather information about Mother Language Day (21st February) which they will present to the school on Wednesday 6th March. Our next RRSA meeting will be on Wednesday 6th March after the assembly, so we knew we had a lot to achieve today! You can see from the photos below that everyone worked really hard. 🙂
Rights Respecting Schools Assembly: “Everyone’s a Hero” (6.2.2019)
Article 19: Governments should ensure that children are properly cared for and protect them from violence, abuse and neglect.
Our RRSA presenters got everyone thinking about how to respond to bullying today. They posed a quiz, and everyone in the school had to hold up their answer: A, B or C. It was really interesting to see what the pupils thought about different situations – some were quite thought provoking. The pupils could see the links between this assembly and our school values of empathy, respect and friendship as well as several of the health and wellbeing indicators.
The four presenters used the assembly below, if you would like to see the questions that the children were asked and talk about them at home.
Everyone’s a Hero UNICEF assembly 6.2.19
Rights Respecting Schools Meeting: Wednesday 16th January 2019
Minutes
• Miss Mullin presented the first RRSA assembly to the whole school this afternoon. It was agreed that all RRSA members will take on different roles to prepare for the next one (on Wednesday 6th February.)
• Isla was welcomed to the RRSA group.
• Assembly jobs were agreed as follows:
o Martha, Thomas, Andrew & Maisie will present the assembly “Everyone’s a Hero” (UNICEF 1.) They agreed to divide up the script.
o Aibhne & Owen typed out Article 19 for the right of the fortnight display.
o Poppy, Poppy & Isla transferred the “We’ve all got rights” song from Youtube to a song sheet. If you want to listen to the song, click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_70HXxd5Y&index=8&list=LLVPEqzapW_bxK4aP8rwjgHg&t=7s
o Sam, Conon & Bhavya made master copies of the voting cards that we will need for the next assembly.
o Duncan, Harry, Grayson, Orla & Ava prepared & counted the colour paper for the voting cards.
Next meeting: 30th January 2019.
Rights Respecting Schools Meeting: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Minutes
• Miss Mullin has officially registered our school for the Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA.)
• UNICEF RRSA year planner shared with P7s. P7s to identify potential themes/dates for assemblies.
• Thanks to the PSAs for photocopying our surveys.
• Return date of Friday 2nd November agreed for all surveys.
• P7s distributed pupil and staff surveys.
• Noticeboard in hall selected – PSAs asked to remove existing display.
• Featured image agreed for RRSA blog.
• P7s typed up minutes for RRSA blog.
• P1-P6 pupils started to create paperchains for RRSA display board.
Next meeting: date to be confirmed, November 2018
Rights Respecting Schools meeting: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Minutes:
• Miss Mullin welcomed the 16 pupil representatives from across the school.
• P7s appointed as executive committee. Poppy is chair person. Martha and Ambar will share the role of secretary/public relations officer. Congratulations to all three!
• Gaelic P3-7, P3/4, P4/5 and P6/7D selected for Pupil Surveys.
• Majority voted for a RRSA noticeboard to be created.
• RRSA group to present an assembly to the whole school – P7s to sort out a date with Mrs Laird.
• Group photo taken for noticeboard.
Next meeting: Wednesday 10th October 2018.
