Rights Respecting Schools

 

 

BREAKING NEWS  April 2023

 

We are really pleased to share that we have achieved our Silver re-accreditation.  Please take a look at our Evidence File below to get a sense of what we have been doing to ensure that our RRSA principles and values are fully re-embedded following Covid.

 

 

The lead teacher for RRSA is Mrs Rogerson.

 

What does it mean to be a Rights Respecting School?

Rights Respecting Schools is an award by the charity UNICEF. The award is for schools that are working towards children’s rights becoming an embedded part of their school ethos. It teaches children about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and enables them to be Rights Respecting Global Citizens and advocates for fairness and social justice in our local community, our country and across the globe. This encompasses our British Values and Prevent. 

 

Click the star icon below to see what our RRSA Committees have been up to.

What does RRSA look like in our school?

We gained our recognition of commitment in May 2016 and achieved the Level 1, Silver award in June 2017. This was recently re-confirmed in April 2023, following Covid We are now working towards our Gold Accreditation.

 

 

Our Rights Respecting Mascot

This year, we have decided to use a mascot to help us learn about our rights. Our winning mascot is called Ronnie the Rights Respecting Monster.

 

Steering group

This year, we have named our steering group the 'Rights Knights'. The steering group consists of our lead RRSA ambassador, our head boy and head girl, children from Year 2 and Year 5, Mrs Rogerson, Mrs Ewart, Mr Thackway and Mrs Cryne. Their role is to ensure that the whole school is aware of the Rights Respecting Schools Award, to provide a link between the children, all staff members, the governors and the wider community and to plan and deliver events to help our children become Rights Respecting Global Citizens.

 

Committees

This year, our Rights Respecting Ambassadors have decided to work as committees. We have three committees that each run a different working group around school to further extend the role of the Rights Knights steering group:

• Environment committee
• Community committee
• Health and Wellbeing committee

 

Class Charters

Every class in school has discussed, agreed on and designed their own class charters. These consist of three articles that the whole class agree to focus on and incorporate into their day to day lives. The children have discussed what both the adults (Duty Bearers) and the children (Rights holders) have to do to ensure the rights are met and have included these on their charters.

 

RRSA Assemblies

On Thursday afternoons, alternate KS1 and KS2 assemblies are held by class teachers where they have the opportunity to discuss and share new articles with the children. The children really enjoy these assemblies as they get the chance to discuss and explore new articles and see how the convention is followed in countries around the world.

 

This year, we will be covering the following articles in our RRSA assemblies:

 

For more information about the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award, take a look at their website: https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/