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(Understanding Democracy)

Children's Rights

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.

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 here.

Exploring rights through a picture activity.

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.

The values line

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.

Every Muslim, Jewish or Hindu child has the right to play.

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

Teachers, click to find out more about the work of HEC Global Learning Centre and Children's Rights