Firrhill Rights Respecting Schools podcast

To highlight International Women’s Day at Firrhill High School the pupils are delighted to interview their teacher and our colleague Amy Brown. With a focus on articles 2 & 34 of the UNCRC, this episode explores schools work towards supporting Gender Equality in local and wider contexts

The pupils interview educational journalist and author James McEnaney

Elaine C Smith meets the pupils to talk education and diversity in schools and in the arts and entertainment sectors

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In this our final episode of the season we interview the two staff team driving RRS in Firrhill High School and ask them their motivations for supporting rights under articles 4 and 15!

The podcast team meet Alice Clegg a depute head teacher whose career in education and experiences of school and family showcase her support for inclusion and promotion of diversity

The podcast team travel to UNICEF’s UK HQ in London to interview Francis Bestley - who has led the UNICEF RRS campaign over the last few years. Frances discusses the campaign and her career in promoting child rights⭐️⭐️

With millions of Social media followers, Andrew tells us how access to pursue ones interests can unlock a whole new career. Like a TikTok video, Andrew gets straight to the point and talks about his freedom of expression, how it all started with the help from his grandparents and how you can monetise your interests. Is content creation a young persons right that is now a profession ?

Jonny and the podcast team use articles 28 and 42 of the UNCRC - that all children, young people and adults should know about the UNCRC as the basis of a discussion around modern approaches to diversity and inclusion in schools, his own early career motivations and how he juggles his work to support colleagues drive equalities in school