At Children’s Parliament, we describe children’s lives as existing through the environments of home, school and community. As a fundamental domain in children’s lives, children have talked to us over many years about their experiences of learning and school through projects, consultations and programmes.
The history of children’s engagement in the theme of school learning was compiled in 2016 through our School Should be a Joyful Place report. Read the full report here:
Children’s Parliament sees attainment as a human rights issue. Read our blog which explains why: www.childrensparliament.org.uk/attainment-human-rights-issue/
To address the poverty-related attainment gap children need to build learner self-perception and learn within environments where their rights are at the heart of their experience. For Children’s Parliament, it’s all about relationships. With support from Scottish Government we explored this further in a programme called Children’s Parliament Investigates Learning. Check out the film and programme report below.
With our partner schools in Aberdeen City we delivered the Doing Our Best programme, building on learning from our development work and in the context of our Imagining Aberdeen programme.
The following film was produced in collaboration with the Scottish Government film unit.
Children’s Parliament Investigates Learning was funded by Scottish Government as part of the Scottish Attainment Challenge.