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Our topic for the Spring Term 2025 is.......
'Is Life Fair?'
"This award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want change."
Malala Yousafzai: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 2014.
The Year 6 team are very excited to launch a topic on human rights and current and historical social injustices, with the essential question- ‘Is Life Fair?
This topic will be looking at human rights, why they are important, and key historical atrocities which led to them being created. The children will look at World and British history and learn about significant historical figures, and their quest for equality and social justice. World trade, economy and geopolitics will be explored through a lens of equality, to determine why is life not fair for all today. Children will learn about climate refugees, and the severe and deadly impact the climate crisis is having on certain parts of the world. They will portray themes of oppression, freedom, power and liberty through their imaginative sculptures and written word, with key speeches from the likes of Martin Luther King Jr and Mala Yousafzai inspiring their art and writing.
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Some highlights will include:
- Discussing human rights through history, and exploring the social and political changes our world has gone through
- Developing their own historical enquiry to answer the key question, ‘Is Life Fair?
- Writing their own emotive speech on an equality issue of their choice
- Investigating ‘Fair Trade’ and how this is implemented globally
- Using clay to sculpt pieces of art which evoke emotion and provoke thought
- Building prototypes for shelters designed to house climate refugees
As a ‘Gold’ Rights Respecting school, our children know the importance of their rights and having them upheld. However, despite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), an international human rights treaty which sets out to protect the rights of children, many children do not have their rights met everyday around the world. Article 27 outlines that children have the right to food, clothing and a safe home whilst Article 28 outlines that children have the right to access education. Nevertheless, many children around the world are not accessing education and do not live in safe conditions and so our children want to make a difference, have an impact and leave a legacy for children less fortunate than themselves.
For their final outcome, the children will be fundraising for a charity of their choice. The fundraising itself, will be very much child led. As classes, we will collaborate, research, plan and organise a fundraising event at Trewirgie Junior School, to raise as much money as possible for worthwhile and important causes.
This will be a thought-provoking and captivating topic, that will give each child an eye-opening experience into the current and historical social, economical and political injustices of our world, and allow children to support the upholding of children’s rights. They will develop their empathy skills in understanding that despite how far we have come in terms of equality and the face there are international constitutions to protect people’s rights, there are still people and places in our world, allowing others to live in danger, deprivation and despair. If you have any resources, artefacts or expertise you wish to share, please feel free to contact a member of the team.
Article 27: The right to food, clothing and a safe home
If a family does not have money or is unable to support themselves, the welfare state and government should provide extra money and support to help those children. In some countries, this is not happening. What can we do to support this right for children globally?
Article 28: The right to an education
All children have the right to a primary education, which should be free. However, today, education remains an inaccessible right for millions of children around the world: more than 72 million children of primary education age are not in school. Why is this happening and what can we do to help?
Article 29: The right to an education which develops my personality, respect for others’ rights and the environment
Education should develop children’s personalities and talents and teach them to be respectful of everything and everyone around them. Throughout this topic, we will look at how our education system compares with others around the world for doing this.
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Home Learning
Every three weeks the children will be introduced to a new home learning challenge. These will be shared with you on Class DoJo. Each question will have a range of suggestions as to how they can share their understanding of each. They can select any way of demonstrating their understanding.
Across the term we hope that your child is curious enough to extend and deepen their learning and understanding further. Every three weeks certificates will be awarded for work that shows innovation, creativity, depth of learning or original thinking.
Please share any of their work on Class DoJo or bring into school with them.
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