Human Rights

Pupils learn about rights and responsibilities within their own lives and the lives of others.

Extract from the DfES document Developing the global dimension in the school curriculum:

Knowing about human rights including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This can include:

• valuing our common humanity, the meaning of universal human rights;
• understanding rights and responsibilities in a global context and the interrelationship between the global and the local;
• understanding that there are competing rights and responsibilities in different situations and knowing some ways in which human rights are being denied and claimed locally and globally;
• understanding human rights as a framework for challenging inequalities and prejudice, such as racism
• knowing about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the European declaration on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act in UK law;
• understanding the universality and indivisibility of human rights.