Orchard
Nursery School
Citizenship
Article 12 of the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Article 12 states that children have
the right to participate in decision-making processes that may be relevant in
their lives and to influence decisions taken in their regard - within the
family, school or community. Read an
overview of Article 12 on the UNICEF website.
'Fostering active and responsible
citizens contributes to the process of developing a healthy and vibrant culture
of democratic participation.'
'Education
for Citizenship in Scotland', Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2002
Aims
·
To develop children’s participation of learning 'citizenship
through experience'.
Objectives
- To develop children’s awareness of all sections of the
community from their own families to the world as a whole.
- To encourage children to partake in their own decision
making.
- To encourage respect, and tolerance for other children
and adults.
Citizenship is about
developing the children’s awareness of themselves and others as a part of
communities, whether it is their families, Nursery, school, village, country or
the world. It should help them develop a
way of thinking about their decisions and how they may affect others as well as
themselves.
In Nursery developing this
awareness will generally be done discreetly, through talking, sharing and
discussing problems, as well as introducing rules and appropriate social behaviour.
We will encourage the
children to make choices and as far as possible listen to their choices and
help them follow their decisions constructively.
We will encourage children
to establish their own rules and explain them to others.
Plan to develop
- Get children to talk about simple Nursery rules
- Follow ideas of belonging to certain communities.
- To show children through example how to be polite and courteous.
Review September
2006
Reviewed May
2006-05-24
Next review May
2008
