Monday, May 19, 2008
Lift Off This week we are learning about human rights. I have learned that a lot of people don’t get an education there is 750 million people who don’t get an education and I think they should because they have rights as well. I think they should have a job when they grow up. Alan Curra...
Monday, May 19, 2008
My name is Rebecca I am a primary 7 pupil at Primate Dixon Primary School Coalisland. I am an Irish Traveller and a member of our school council. I am 11 years old and I have been in six or seven different schools. Primate Dixon is my favourite school. I like this school because it has a school council and it has lots of computers and...
Monday, May 19, 2008
As part of their human rights work, some schools organize days to celebrate the various cultures represented in their school community. Here two pupils at Scoil Ursula report on what they learnt at their school’s intercultural day… We had an intercultural day in our school. Intercultural means celebrating al...
Thursday, May 08, 2008
My name is Conlaine Devlin. I have been councillor for a year now at Ballynure Primary School. This is a short piece of writing to tell you about how our council elections work and how interesting it is to participate in. Everyone in classes P3 to P7 makes a manifesto. A manifesto is a page, about you, with your picture on it. ...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Child- Labour is when children don't have a voice, actually they do, they just don't have a right to use it. Not only do they not have a right to use their voices, they don’t have a right to Education, Family and Care and loads of other rights. 218,000,000 children are involved in child -labour. 218,000,000 children but only one...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The Global Campaign for Education organised a worldwide event on 23 rd April to highlight the fact that thousands of children still don’t enjoy their right to an education. Here is an account by 2 children on the day that their school took part in the World’s Biggest Lesson Plan… We...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Apartheid by Rory Mc Namee, 4 th class. Our teacher, Jennifer recently taught us about Apartheid. I was gob smacked that this actually happened and had only been stopped recently. We did loads of fun activities to help us learn about Apartheid in South Africa. I particularly enjoyed when we created freeze frames dep...
Thursday, February 14, 2008
It all started when Miss Diskin told us about an Art Competition based on The Convention of the Rights of the Child . First we had to decide which right to focus on. We voted and finally decided on the Right not to be used as a soldier in wars and The Right not to be used as cheap workers. For homework that night we had to co...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
The road to our school crest started at the beginning of the year when we learned about Rights and Responsibilities in our SPHE lesson. Later on in the year our teacher asked us to design a new school crest which would signal we are a welcoming school. Everyone designed an individual school crest, then we went into groups and discussed...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Our school is an Educate Together national school. It is in Lucan, which is in County Dublin. Our school building opened in September 2004. Parents and teachers were on the Parent Teacher Association and the Board of Management. There was no place for children’s voices before we started the Students’ Union. We have a union rather tha...
