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For churches and schools wishing to respond to the Archbishop of York’s Year of the Child, the diocese has drawn together some useful materials that will help children and young people reflect upon the rights of children and the issues of child poverty.
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DIY Toolkit: Improving your community - getting children and young people involved
This guide provides tried and tested methods for encouraging young people to become actively involved in local community regeneration.
This guide is based on practical experience. It provides tried and tested methods of working, for adults interested in encouraging young people to become actively involved in their local community and its regeneration. You will find this guide useful if you have a belief that young people are key to the wellbeing of the community. You therefore may want to create opportunities for them to have a role in local decisions and activities to improve their area. In particular, the guide is written to support adults with this kind of motivation but less experience in supporting young people’s participation. |
The guide is aimed at adults. It sets out a process that includes:
- consulting young people about their views
- understanding their rights
- supporting them to put their ideas into action
- working alongside others to bring about real change.
The guide is based on the experience and learning from Save the Children's Community Partners Programme (2000 to 2005).
Downoad DIY toolkit to improving your community (PDF 2,277KB).
Teacher's pack on children's rights: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/childrensrights_teachersguide.pdf |
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Teaching resources and packs:
Unicef class room activities: www.unicef.org.uk/tz/classroom_activities.index.asp?nodeid+classact§ion=6
Compass session plans:
Videos
What Makes Me Happy: Short films inspired by children: |
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These short films, produced by Save the Children and Ragdoll (the makers of Teletubbies and Rosie and Jim), tell the beautiful, funny and touching stories of being a child in six different places.
The stories come from young people's own memories of what made them happy as children and are acted by children. Although these children live in challenging environments, their stories contain
plenty of laughter, surprise, play, and friendship. By exploring their stories your pupils can gain a better understanding both of the lives of others around the world and of their own.
The films tell the stories of Ranjita from Nepal, Tommy from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Amran from Ethiopia, Hashi from Sri Lanka, Junjie from China and Mahmoud from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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The accompanying teachers' guide provides ideas on how to use the films with primary school pupils aged 5-8. It contains activities that can be used to teach English, literacy and language awareness, geography and citizenship/PSHE. The films are not dubbed or subtitled and pupils are challenged to use their powers of observation and imagination.
The DVD provides:
- six ten-minute films for use with DVD players and interactive white-boards
- a 12-page teachers' guide
- images of the children and their communities to project or print out
- an electronic world map locating where the children live.
Price: £9.95
This publication is available to order from our distributor NBN International
Books
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Respect! Exploring children’s rights in the UK and around the world(http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_5973.htm)
This pack looks at children’s rights - to healthcare, education, protection and participation - using activities, discussion, stories and poems.
“The activities are a valuable resource in developing pupils who think for themselves and respect others.”
Darren Chetty, Language, Communication and Thinking Leader, Southwold Primary School
Respect! is an exciting resource that will help pupils explore their rights and the rights of children all around the world. It has a mix of activities, discussions, stories and poems. Lesson plans cover different rights — to basics, like healthcare, to education and protection, and to participate. There are also notes to guide teachers through the issues and activities.
Price: £25
ISBN 978 1 84187 121 9
This publication can be ordered from our distributor NBN International.
Various books from Save the Children:
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/assets/php/library.php?Type=Teaching+resources&Topic=Children%27s+rights
Children's Human Rights |
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This informative pocket-size booklet gives young people all the information they need
about their Convention on the Rights of the Child. It explains in straightforward language
the crossover with the Human Rights Act / European Convention on Human Rights and
includes "real life" case studies. Price is for pack of five and includes postage.
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Sarah Brush |
Work with teenagers (aged 11-25 years) within parishes across the diocese is supported by the Youth Officer Sarah brush
Tel: 01905 732825
E-mail:
This support is offered in a variety of ways. Click on the links below for details and information about the various aspects of my role..
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