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| Speak
Up, Speak Out
(Understanding Democracy)
Children's Rights |
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In this session, the children explored the topics of rights
and how they are represented.
The session included exploring rights and voicing opinions through group
discussions, presentations and picture activities, all ending up in a
charter of rights Christchurch children would like to have. |
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| Picture Activity
The children explored the topics of rights through a picture activity.
These pictures were taken by children who worked and lived on the rubbish
dumps of Guatemala City. Each picture is an interpretation of a right.
The aim is to get the children to match the pictures with a rights statement
and then think about why they have matched the two together. This allows
the children to voice their opinion on what each right means to them.
Click here to hear what they thought
about rights
You can download the cards and play the game
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Exploring rights through a picture activity. |
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Values Line
The first activity was the values line. Here, a line was drawn on the floor
with masking tape; the line had a plus sign at one end and a minus sign
on the other. A range of different statements were read out and the children
had to decide where they wanted to stand. All children were divided into
groups and each time the group chose a representative to stand in the place
that showed what their group felt about the statement that was read out. |
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The values line |
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Creative activity
After exploring the different kinds of rights mentioned in the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child, the children each had to pick a right that
they felt was most important and design a super hero character with super
powers to make that right a reality. |
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| Every Muslim, Jewish or Hindu child has the right to play. |
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Charter of Rights
Using all this information about rights, the children came up with a charter
of rights that they would like every Christchurch child to have. To do this
they were split into groups and thought about five rights they would like
to have in their school. Each group then presented their ideas which all
together made up the Christchurch Charter of Rights. |
Click here
to see our Children's Charter of Rights |
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