This week, Year 2 have been on a school trip to Stover Country Park, to tie in with our LCC learning about healthy eating and plants. This links to Article 29 – Your education should help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people. At Stover, we discussed the importance of protecting the environment, including all of the plants, trees and other habitats.

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Harmful work? If it harms a child’s health or education, it contravenes Article 32. Think Victorian era when boys swept clean chimneys and girls stayed at home to help with the chores. Those times have long since passed in this country, of course, but this is not the case in some poorer countries.

Yet this right should not be taken to mean children are not encouraged to take on roles of responsibility within school. In Year 5, children fulfil the roles of class monitors for a number of tasks, ranging from keeping the cloakroom tidy to sharpening pencils to holding open the door. Being a classroom monitor teaches the importance of serving the community (which, in school, is the class) in a way that is both pleasing and rewarding.(House points can be earned and a ‘thank you’ from a grateful peer is never far away.) It’s the positive flip-side of Article 32.