The Rights Respecting Committee and others have been working on a ‘Proud to Be Me’ event for next month. We have been discussing articles:
2 – Freedom from discrimination
13 – Freedom of expression and
14 – Freedom of though, belief and religion.
We talked about what it means to be ourselves, and ways in which we are all different. We have been making posters to display around the school.
The Equalities committee have been learning about Ramadan. This is what we have learned:
Ramadan is the 9th month to Muslims and what they do for Ramadan is when they fast all day and eat at night. In other countries like Muslim countries they have school half a day but in Scotland we have full days because 1.4% of Muslims live in Scotland even though that seems like alot that isnt actually even half in big Cities. in the Uk their are mosques which is like a place of worship. By Sienna
After Ramadan has finished, Muslims celebrate with a big festival called Eid – Daisy
Daisy and Isla:
Islay and Zara:
Ruaridh and Kamaran:
Lewis and Lewis:
During January, The Rights Respecting Committee have been collecting and sorting donations for the local food bank. We have collected a huge amount of food and supplies and are very grateful for the kind donations. These will be collected at the end of this week.
Article 24 – Every child has the right to the best possible health.
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.
The Equality Committee are leading the campaign ‘Jeans for Genes Day’ to raise awareness for children with genetic disorders.
On Friday 20th September pupils can wear jeans with their school uniform on top to show their support and help raise money for genetic disorders.
Article 24: You have the right to the best healthcare possible.
Global Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
Global Goal 10: Reduce Inequality
Welcome to our new Equality Committee for 2019-2020.
Every pupil in the school was asked if they wished to apply to be part of the Equality Committee and given an application form. Pupils presented why they should be their class representative and the children voted for their favourite candidate.
The Equality Committee are celebrating today achieving the Rights Respecting Schools SILVER Award.
Well done to everyone for all your hard work 🎉
Miss Reid delivered a RRSA update to the whole staff at our Inservice Day.
We re-capped the ABCDE of Rights and then completed a matching activity between statements and explanations.
A – Rights are for ALL children. UNIVERSAL
B – Rights are there at BIRTH. INHERENT
C – Rights CANNOT be taken away. INALIENABLE
D – Rights DO NOT have to be earned. UNCONDITIONAL
E – All rights are EQUALLY important. INDIVISIBLE
The Equality Committee shared our learning about children’s rights with our parents and carers.
We talked about the impact of the Rights Respecting Silver Award at Cross Arthurlie and completed an activity to see how many rights our visitors knew already.
Finally we gave examples and discussed how all our learning can be linked to children’s rights from topics on World War Two to current issues on Plastic Pollution.
Primary 6 have been learning about life in Victorian times. They discovered many children were sent to work in dangerous factories or as a chimney sweep.
They were therefore denied their right to Article 32 – Children must not be sent to work and working conditions should be safe and Article 28 – Right to an Education.
When children were allowed to attend school their teachers were very strict. They used the belt or cane to punish children and often humiliated them by making them sit at the front of the room wearing a ‘Dunce’ hat and encouraged other pupils to ridicule them.
They were therefore denied their right to Article 19 – Adults should do what’s best for children. Children should not be harmed or punished.
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