Building Better Relationships in the Rights Respecting Classroom

• “A rights respecting school not only teaches about children’s rights but also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between teachers/ adults and pupils, between adults and between pupils

Links with Health and Wellbeing

• “As I explore the rights to which I am entitled, I am able to exercise these rights appropriately and accept the responsibilities that go with them…I show respect for the rights of others.”

Building Better Relationships

“Where, after all, do human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so small they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person… Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.” Eleanor Roosevelt

Building Better Relationships

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