Human Rights

Edwardsville Primary School is a Silver Rights Respecting School. UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation working for children and their rights. The Rights Respecting Schools Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children’s rights and encouraging adults, children, and young people to respect the rights of others in school. Silver is given to schools that make excellent progress towards embedding the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into its ethos and curriculum.

We believe that learning about human rights empowers pupils as rights-holders. This enables our pupils to critically examine their own attitudes and behaviour and to develop skills to be ethically-informed citizens of Wales and the world, who

can be advocates for their rights and the rights of others.

Our curriculum incorporates opportunities for our pupils to:

• learn about human rights by developing their understanding of what human rights are and where those rights have come from including. This includes developing their understanding of the UNCRC and UNCRPD.

• learn through human rights which supports our pupils to develop values, attitudes and behaviour that reflect human rights.

• learn for human rights, which motivates them to social action, empowerment of active citizenship and to advance respect for the rights for all.