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Recent Article on the Rights Respecting School written by the Forres Academy News Group (FANG)

Article taken from: FANG

Rights Respecting School Pupils Take a Stand By Heather Prentice and Erin Thomson

A group of S4 pupils from the Wider Achievements Rights Respecting Schools, gave a presentation to several S2 PSE classes in order to raise awareness of the course and the UN convention on the rights of children. The group, consisting of five S4 pupils, Matthew Adamson, Courtney Forrester, Leonie MacLennan, Abigail Smith and team leader Jack Slinger, organised the presentation which will go towards the Rights Respecting Schools Award.

Social Subjects teacher Tim Pott, encourages the pupils to be aware of their human rights and responsibilities and raise awareness of them around the school. Pupils watched several videos and were given information which educated them about their human rights both within and out of school. Abigail Smith said: “I enjoyed informing the younger generation of their basic human rights”.

The Rights Respecting Schools pupils were extremely enthusiastic about the course with Matthew Adamson adding: “It’s really interesting and I have learnt about rights I never knew I had”.

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Rights Respecting School was established in Forres Academy in August 2014 as an S4 Wider Achievement Class. RRS is about getting the whole community involved in Children’s Rights.  The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) at the heart of a school’s planning, policies, practice and ethos. A rights-respecting school not only teaches about children’s rights but also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between pupils and adults, between adults and between pupils. RRS also allows pupils to discover how Children’s Rights are not being met across the globe. This blog has been created to display the work we have been doing to promote Children’s Rights in Forres Academy and the Wider Community.