Rights Respecting School - News

The RRS Ambassadors are meeting next week to talk about an information leaflet and our forthcoming newsletter.  One of our main aims is to update the  school leaflet in line with the gold award. We will look at some of the suggested templates from UNICEF and personalise it to St Catherine’s School. Once it is […]

On Thursday we welcomed two teachers from St Rose’s Infant School. Our year 6 RRS Ambassadors gave them a tour of the school . They were very interested in our journey towards the ‘Gold Award’. We are also looking forward to going to Martins school in January to talk about our schools and compare the […]

We were delighted to welcome our RRS Parent Ambassadors on Thursday  8th November.  The year 6 ambassadors showed them around the school. Here is the year 6 report. ‘On Thursday morning the Year 6 Rights Respecting Ambassadors showed Mr Coster ( Charlotte’s father) and Mrs Picotti (Giulio’s mother)  around the whole school to find evidence […]

Here is the Nursery class charter. As you can see they have really been creative in their design. They have decorated their beautiful tree with their handprints showing their uniqueness and how special each one of them is. Global Learning GLOBAL GOAL 6 Too many people still lack access to safely managed water supplies and […]

Here are the year 1 class charters. As you can see they have really been creative in their design. The children  understand that all children have the right to a name, a shelter and clean water and nutritious food. The RRS Ambassadors met on Wednesday to  look at our action plan which is a part […]

As  you are aware there are over 5o Articles. At St Catherine’s we concentrate on the Articles below  so the children are fully aware of their rights. We have used child friendly language to ensure we all understand. Article 29 The right to an education that develops their personality and talents to the fullest Article […]

Year 3 have also been extremely busy designing their class charters using the idea of a tree as the main focus. They have also enjoyed finding out the many different countries our families come from. We celebrate our diversity. Rights Respecting School As we enter the month of October the children have been introduced to […]

Year 4 have also been extremely busy designing their class charters. They have also enjoyed finding out the many different countries our families come from. We celebrate our diversity. The RRS Steering Group met today to plan the term ahead. We have been joined by representatives from each year group. This will enable us to […]

Class Charters Year 5 children greatly enjoyed designing their charters. The children are so imaginative and creative and by designing the charter themselves it gives real meaning to the purpose of having a class charter. Global Learning Over the coming two weeks the children  will be watching the World’s Largest Lesson which introduces the Sustainable […]

Many parents commented on the class charters they saw at the Curriculum Meetings this week. This was a priority for all the children and staff in each classroom. A class charter is created in collaboration with the children in a class and the adults that teach them. They agree a charter for a rights-respecting classroom. […]