Learning objective

  • To explore children’s rights, using key articles from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Success criteria

  • I can explain that
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 Non-statutory guidance

The National curriculum states,

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Before starting this unit, you may want to check that children can recall: What being fair means and how this might look. Why we have rules and laws. What democracy is. What a community is.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could focus on the right to play as it includes just one right and children may be more familiar with it; could record their ideas verbally, rather than writing, using a voice recording device or talking to an adult. 

Pupils working at greater depth

Could be challenged to develop ideas around how we can support the rights.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recognising that children have rights

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Vocabulary definitions

  • benefit

    Something that helps or makes things better.

  • Convention on Rights

    A set of rules or agreements that protect the rights of children.

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Sarah has over 20 years’ experience in education. Starting as a Primary teacher, Sarah then moved into an advisory role that covered both PSHE education and Citizenship. She delivers courses for teachers, as well as sessions for children and young people and creates…
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