Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 16: Celebrating human rights - citizenship activities for the whole school
Section 4: How successful was the day?
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Objectives |
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- how to review, evaluate and publish information about human rights
- how to promote and celebrate the school's achievements
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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- Review with pupils - individually and in groups - their involvement in the Human Rights Day events and establish what was successful and what was less successful. Ask them to specify their reasons and record their evaluation for future events.
- Pupils could work in groups to design a human rights page for the school website, entering existing information, designing a discussion page and providing links to other sites.
- Consolidate learning by asking pupils to write a commemorative newsletter or an article for the local press, supporting their work with illustrations and photographs.
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- identify factors relating to the success of planning and organising events, and record their own contribution
- use ICT skills and citizenship knowledge and understanding, with an awareness of their audience
- celebrate their achievements, involving the wider community in appreciating both the issues and the event
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Points to note |
- Children's Express is an online newspaper to which pupils
can submit articles for publication - www.childrens-express.org
- Include material relating to the day, and pupils' individual and group contribution to it, in a portfolio.
- Link with ICT: unit
9 'Publishing on the web'.
- Link with key skills: IT.
- Link with thinking skills: evaluation.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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