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Working in partnership with Barrhead High School

Pupils from S2 and S3 in Barrhead High came to deliver a lesson on ‘Respect’ to our Primary 7 pupils. They were impressed by our knowledge of rights. They posed different scenarios to us about respect and we had to decide if we agreed and disagreed with the statements.

We took part in an ‘iceberg’ activity to identify feelings and issues we share with others and things we may keep ‘hidden’, things we are not as comfortable discussing with others, e.g. poverty, family circumstances. We talked about strategies we can use to support and show respect towards these issues and feelings.

Sharing our learning about Fairtrade

We have been making a Fairtrade wall display using the Fairtrade packaging the whole school collected.

We have looked at the results from the Fairtrade survey completed by each class and the P7 Equality reps have collated it into a spreadsheet and bar graph.

Fairtrade Fortnight

The Equality Committee organised a Fairtrade Story Hunt around the school to raise awareness of how Fairtrade Cooperatives help farmers across the world (who produce our chocolate, tea and bananas) get a fair price for the work they do.
We know this will help farmers and their families have access to their right to education, shelter and clean water.

The equality committee picked one winner from each class to win a Fairtrade bookmark and chocolate bar. We were very pleased to see Cadbury chocolate are supporting Fairtrade farmers.

Parent Survey – Results

Our Primary 7 Equality reps created a survey to monitor our progress towards the GOLD award and identify any areas where we needed to improve. Mrs Gauld asked parents to complete this survey during Parents’ Night.

51 parents answered the survey and then The Equality Committee looked at the results.

See a summary of the results here:

We discovered that only half the parents knew we were working towards the Rights Respecting Award and that all parents who answered didn’t know what the ABCDE of rights or the Global Goals were. This means that not all pupils are sharing their learning about rights at home.

Parents were very positive about their children becoming empowered, confident and responsible by learning about rights and commented that pupils are developing the knowledge of how to help others gain access to their rights.

Parents shared their opinions on what we should campaign towards, identifying the changes in local environment, such as vandalism to local parks and the building of housing taking away green space, as areas for concern.

As a committee we will debate these issues further to see what we will campaign on in the New Year.

ABCDE of children’s rights – art competition winners

The Equality committee were running an art competition about the ABCDE of children’s rights.

Rights are for all children and young people throughout the world (universal), are there at birth (inherent), cannot be taken away (inalienable), do not come with any conditions attached to them (unconditional) and are all equally important (indivisible).

Winner from P3/1

Winner from P3/2

Winner from P4/1

Winner from P4/2

Winner from P5/1

Winner from P5/2.

Winner from P6/1.

Winner from P6/2

Winner from P7/1

Winner from P7/2

Winner from Equality Committee

ABCDE of rights

The Equality Committee have been working hard to inform the school community about the ABCDE of rights. We decided we wanted to hold an art competition to create a word cloud with the new words and their meanings. We will announce the winners in a few weeks and they will be displayed in the assembly hall.

Wear Red Day – Show Racism the Red Card

On Friday 4th October we wore something red to show our support for the Show Racism the Red Card campaign.

We watched a video and discussed what racism means. We know that we should show respect for everyone equally no matter the colour of their skin, their nationality or religion.

This links to children’s rights because:

Article 7: You have the right to a nationality (to belong to a country)
Article 14: You have the right to choose your own religion and beliefs.
Article 22: You have the right to special protection and help if you are a refugee.
Global Goal 10: reduce Inequalities

Jeans for Genes Day

Thank you to everyone who wore their jeans and donated money for Jeans for Genes Day on Friday 20th September.

We raised a total of £190 to help children with genetic disorders. This money will pay for specialist equipment and fund activities for children with a variety of medical conditions. This will allow children to equally access and participate in groups and clubs.