{"id":2235,"date":"2018-01-14T19:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2018-01-14T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:12:34","slug":"8th-12th-january-2018-recognising-and-realising-the-rights-of-all-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/2018\/01\/14\/8th-12th-january-2018-recognising-and-realising-the-rights-of-all-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"8th &#8211; 12th January 2018: Recognising and realising the rights of all young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly welcome back and best wishes for 2018.\u00a0 I want to start with a curious\u00a0thing about 2018 as a year &#8211; it marks a point when all adults in the world were born last century and all children\u00a0were born this century.\u00a0 2018 is also identified as being the year of the young person.<\/p>\n<p>It therefore was perhaps no coincidence that I chose to start the year with assemblies which looked at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.\u00a0 It is not the first time I have\u00a0spoken about UNCRC and it certainly will not be\u00a0the last.\u00a0\u00a0The articles of the UNCRC sit behind most of the legislation relating to children from the Scottish Government.\u00a0 UNCRC is ratified by every country in the United Nations with the exception of USA.\u00a0 It is also supported by all of the leading faith groups in the world and is not aligned to any political doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>In my assembly\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/harlawacademy.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/January-2018-assembly.ppt\">January 2018 assembly<\/a>) I emphasised that the 42 articles of the convention\u00a0could be grouped under 4 main headings: <strong>survival, protection, development and participation.\u00a0 <\/strong>By raising awareness of their rights we help children to <strong>survive<\/strong>, we help ensure their <strong>protection<\/strong>, we support their <strong>development<\/strong> and we actively encourage their <strong>participation<\/strong>.\u00a0 I hope to prepare an information sheet for all pupils, parents and staff to ensure we are all <strong>recognise and realise\u00a0rights<\/strong>\u00a0of all the youngsters who attend Harlaw Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The assembly went on to look at how these rights translate into day to day life.\u00a0 The role adults play as <strong>&#8216;duty bearers&#8217;<\/strong> &#8211; there to help youngsters to benefit from their rights but also to offer guidance\/support and act in the best interests of the child\/young person.\u00a0 The role of children as <strong>&#8216;rights holders&#8217;<\/strong> and our expectation that they will see their rights as being valuable and worth looking after.<\/p>\n<p>A point I emphasised was that in our school it was often other children who denied them their rights.\u00a0 Examples included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>disrupt education by turning up late and\/or misbehaving in class <strong>(article 28 &#8211; education)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>damages toilets\/property, drops litter in corridors <strong>( article 24 &#8211; clean\/safe environment)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>bullies someone by hitting them, calling them names or making comments on line <strong>(article 19 &#8211; protection from harm)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>exploits them by asking them to do something uncomfortable eg sexting <strong>(article 16 &#8211; privacy\/dignity)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>uses peer pressure to stop them from doing something they might enjoy <strong>(article 36 &#8211; exploitation)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I asked pupils to be willing to speak up for their rights and to tell if they see things which happen to other children which denies them the <strong>survival, protection, development\u00a0or participation <\/strong>which their rights should give them.\u00a0 As we see in other aspects of life it can sometimes be difficult for the &#8216;victims&#8217; to speak up and we need others\u00a0to call out the unacceptable behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>In school UNCRC sits behind\/above our three behaviour statements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Respect People: we will consider the health, safety and well being of ourselves and others<\/li>\n<li>Respect Learning: we will be on time, on task, trying our best and achieving success<\/li>\n<li>Respect Community: we will have a positive impact in school, locally and in the wider world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These statements\u00a0informed a leaflet on expectations\u00a0which is available here for your reference <a href=\"https:\/\/harlawacademy.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Expectations-flier-January-2018.doc\">Expectations flier January 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harlaw Academy\u00a0was the first, and at the time the only, Secondary school in Aberdeen to gain level 1 (Silver) of the UNICEF UK Rights Respecting Schools Award and we are looking to gain level 2 (Gold) of the award later this year.\u00a0 Harlaw Academy is a school which emphasises <strong>respect<\/strong> and this is emphasised in our behaviours and expectations.\u00a0 It is a school in which we want all teachers, families and young people to\u00a0act to ensure the\u00a0<strong>rights of all young people<\/strong> are <strong>recognised and realised<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly welcome back and best wishes for 2018.\u00a0 I want to start with a curious\u00a0thing about 2018 as a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parents","category-weekly-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harlawacademy.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}