Equality and Rights Advocates (EARA)

EARA (Equality and rights advocates) 

Sun Hill Junior School is proud to introduce its new EARA group for 2024-2025.

The EARA group is made up of a selection of pupils across the school who applied to join the group and where interviewed by Mrs Woods.

It will be their job to address many of the nine characteristics protected under the Equalities Act of 2010. They consider how prejudicial attitudes and behaviours towards those who share those characteristics impact on their school community.

“Challenge the way both students and teachers think and view our world and our fellow inhabitants and aspire to reduce the discrimination that students of different groups face at school, whether it be down to their race, sexuality, appearance or lifestyle”.

The group decides which aspects to focus on each term and discuss ways in which to advocate these within our school. Fundamental to the ethos of the group is the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the articles contained therein. The group uses the convention as a tool to underpin and empower the work they undertake to promote the rights of every child.

Participation is a key driver for the Convention (Article 12) and thus the EARA group provides young people with a platform to have their voices heard and to provide those vulnerable groups within their school and wider community with an opportunity to be heard.