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What we do that is Rights Based Learning

At Spittal there are many aspects of our daily routines which demonstrates a rights based approach.

Children might not be aware of their rights but as skilled practitioners you will be ensuring rights are being met by your actions and words.

When using a rights based approach children are given choice within their nursery life. Children are given the opportunity to develop their independence and have their voice listened to and heard.

Together We Can and We Will Marking Rights Real states that having children will learn about their rights by having concrete experiences of rights being realised throughout their day. This would include

Free flow play, snack and lunch

Responsive planning following children's interests

Children's voice in care plans, target setting, floor books and mind maps.

Children consulted on their views as part of committees (page 18)

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5 Pillars of Rights Based Practice

The children's parliament have created a document on children's rights bases on 5 pillars the pillars are

Relationships, culture and ethos

Agency

Awareness and Understanding of Rights

Importance of you

Use of Rights Based Language.

Within each of these pillars they have created effective questions which will supported and enhance your understanding of children's rights in the early years.

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Rights Based Practice in the Early Years

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Rights Based Practice in the Early Years

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Rights Based Practice in the Early Years

The children's parliament have created a settings check list to support rights based learning within settings. Although this focuses on birth to 3, all the information can be used to support learning within the 3-5 settings. Like Edinburgh City Council they have lined it to HGIOELC and GIRFEC. They have also linked articles together to show they support different aspects of learning.

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UNCRC Stickers

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Rights-Based Practice in Early Years -- Cowgate Under 5's

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Blank Agenda for Shooting Star Committee Meeting

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Blank Agenda for Shooting Star Committee Meeting

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Spittal Shooting Stars Committee blank agenda

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The Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland

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Our book for young children Illustrated by Corinna Campbell

"Let's Explore Our Rights" teaches young children about their human rights. The book which features iconic Scots landmarks is aimed at children aged up to five. It was beautifully illustrated by Corinna Campbell and takes readers on a journey to discover rights like having a safe home, being healthy, learning, and playing. The book will support early years practitioners to spark first conversations about human rights with very young children.

The book was created in response to requests from early years practitioners for a resource to help them talk about human rights with children. The book aims to explain in a gentle, age-appropriate way what rights are and why they are important, and to support even very young children to understand their rights and to challenge adults in power when they feel their rights aren't being respected. The children from Lochardil Primary School Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) played a vital role in creating the book, with their ideas helping to create and refine the illustrations, and some of their own drawings included. The book will be provided to every local authority nursery in Scotland before the end of term, with a Gaelic edition in production.

You can download or view a copy of the book below. We also have some physical copies available to order. Please email administration@cypcs.org.uk to find out more.

A reading of the book by Isla, age 8.

We also have a British Sign Language version of the book. BSL Version

Downloads

You can download or browse the book below. We also have some rights explorers badges which can be downloaded, printed, cut out and fed into your chosen badge-making machine!

We also have some physical copies of the book available to order. Please email administration@cypcs.org.uk to find out more.

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"Let's Explore Our Rights" is a beautifully illustrated book that teaches young children about their human rights through iconic Scots landmarks. This resource, supported by early years practitioners, aims to spark first conversations about human rights with children aged up to five, explaining in a gentle and age-appropriate way what rights are and why they are important.

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Edinburgh City Council have created a toolkit for Self Evaluation of the UNCRC articles. Education Scotland use this as an example of good practice on their website. In this they have taken the articles which are the most relevant to early years and given examples of what this would look like in practice.

This is an example of an article completed.

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Spittal Shooting Stars Committee May Minutes 

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This is our children's rights mascot. The children selected her name majority through a voting system, by majority they selected Shooting Star.

Shooting Star represents the children's voice within the setting.