As part of our Rights Respecting School initiative each fortnight we learn about a particular article.  Tomorrow during our Get2gether we will be exploring article 30 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child.  This states that children and young people who belong to a minority group have the right to share their culture, language, and religion with other people in that group.  Please ask your children about what they have learned.

Please see the full charter below:

On Monday Mrs McMurdo explained to us that all over the USA 🇺🇸 on Wednesday 15th January, children will be celebrating this special day.  In 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end racial prejudice in the United States.  The US Government brought in laws to ensure equal rights for all US citizens and to give everybody the chance to vote.  It is because of Martin Luther King, and others like him, that people in the United States have equal rights today.

Mrs McMurdo carried out a sketch where she gave the children with blue eyes the opportunity to vote.  The audience quite rightly pointed out that this was not fair.  We were then able to discuss that in order to demonstrate EQUALITY, Mrs McMurdo should have given all the children taking part the same opportunities.

Through this assembly the children were made aware of ARTICLE 1 (Everyone under the age of 18 has all the rights of the Convention on the Rights of the Child) and ARTICLE 7 (The Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to everyone without exception against all forms of discrimination) from the UN Convention on the Rights ofnthe Child.