- Activities with a human rights focus may be integrated into subjects across the curriculum, eg by studying child labour in history, designing protest posters in art and design, reading poetry in English, examining questions of suffering in RE.
- Encourage year 10 or year 11 history students to research human rights issues, eg child workers in the nineteenth century. This can be compared with child labour issues in the present, and could include investigating the Human Rights Act or the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Pupils could design and organise a display of their findings, including information on relevant websites and case studies. They could also contribute to planning and facilitating a workshop to engage other pupils in active discussion about child labour, eg asking whether they want cheap trainers and clothing at the expense of child exploitation.
- Ask pupils to investigate the work of external organisations, eg the Amnesty International Junior Urgent Action Campaign. Suggest pupil-led assemblies on these topics for pupils' own or other year groups, and internet discussions.
- Invite year 7 pupils to work with year 6 pupils from feeder schools, to identify issues of concern to them. Focus on their rights on transferring to secondary school, eg freedom from bullying, harassment and racism. Plan a workshop, eg relating to the school's anti-bullying policy, to be jointly facilitated by year 7 and key stage 4 pupils for visiting children from a feeder school.
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- are involved in citizenship education with a wider range of subject teachers and other school staff
- know about and understand specific human rights issues developed through enquiry and communication
- find out about the work of local, community-based, national and international organisations
- empathise with younger pupils' concerns and increase their own knowledge of issues through research, preparation and delivery of workshops
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