Warwick Academy To Host Human Rights Night
Almost 4 months after becoming the island’s first “Human Rights Friendly School” Warwick Academy will be hosting its first informal parent and student evening on Human Rights.
Mrs. Françoise Wolffe, “Human Rights Friendly Schools” Coordinator for Amnesty International Bermuda and the body of selected students and teachers have been diligently working to fulfil their mission to be in line with the United Nations “Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training” dated December 19, 2011 which stipulates that:” Everyone has the right to know, seek and receive information about all human rights and fundamental freedoms and should have access to human rights education and training”.
The evening will take place at the school hall on Thursday 17th January, 2013 from 6pm to 8pm and is open to parents and students of the school. The setting will be informal to allow parents, teachers, students to engage with each other about the programme and activities that have been worked on and documented over the past few months.
Visitors will be invited to embark upon a “Journey through Human Rights” and walk along a series of displays which will feature Human Rights Education initiatives implemented in the classroom. Parents will discover in particular Y6′s Human Rights books on the Convention for the Right of the Child and their art work on the Right to Freedom of Expression. Y5′s Letters of solidarity to Young Pakistani activist MalalaYousefzai and Y3 Human Rights Day Assembly will also be featured.
Examples of Secondary school activities will include a graphic interpretation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and details of our “Human Rights in the News” project. Y9 students will comment on their contributions to an innovative educational digital platform for Human Rights and the Human Rights Day Assembly which they organized in December 2012.
Members of the Warwick academy Human Rights Education committee will also be at hand to answer questions about the school’s approach to human rights education in the context of the “Human Rights Friendly Schools” project.
Amnesty International Bermuda will be represented by participating board members to discuss some of the upcoming local and global campaigns. Amnesty International Bermuda is part of a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. Inspired by hope the local group works along with its global members to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity.
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It’s very hard to accept Warwick Academy has a Human Rights Friendly School when the first thing they tell you at orientation is that if your child has a disability that is not the school for them.
Well said…VERY true!
Walk The talk,
You are SO right. My husband interviewed for a job there last year. He happens to be in a wheelchair. After admitting that he had the qualifications for the job, the school turned him down, when they decided that being in a wheelchair did not “fit in” with the school, and they were not willing to make any adjustments, even though only minor ones were needed, to make it possible for him to be there.
Human rights? Warwick Academy does not even know the meaning of the word! They should be ashamed of themselves, and Amnesty International should drop them like a bad habit. Don’t be associated with a hypocritical school whose leaders don’t practice what they preach.
Very interesting!