Rights Respecting School - News

During the course of the next two weeks the children will be creating their own class charter. The charter for a rights -respecting classroom sets out: the rights (articles) selected which the children and adults consider to be the most relevant to our school. the actions agreed between the children and adults to ensure that […]

It was a pleasure to meet with our Year 6 rights Respecting Ambassadors this week to thank them for all their hard work over the last 2 years.  Read below their thoughts on this wonderful experience. “I was honoured to be a part of the RRS Ambassador group. I am passionate about every child having […]

We had the most amazing visit to Brettenham on Tuesday. The Years 3-5 Rights Respecting Ambassadors had a tour of the school and then made a lovely display using biscuits, icing sugar and cake toppings  of our school names to demonstrate our partnership. Naturally it would be rude to waste food so they ate them!!!! […]

Next week some of our ambassadors will be visiting Brettenham Juniors School . This is an opportunity to meet the RRS Ambassadors and celebrate our Gold award. We also want to use the opportunity to look at the ‘Global Learning’ displays and work they have been doing. At Brettenham each year group  looks at a […]

As of January 2018, there are 379 Gold Rights Respecting Schools.  Our name is now on the unicef.org.uk website along with the other primary and secondary schools who have achieved this. Our Gold Award banner is now on display. The Gold Award is the highest level of the Award and is granted to schools that […]

The RRS Ambassadors met this week to discuss the ‘Gold Award’. They were all extremely proud of themselves. We concentrated our discussion on the recommendations to maintain the ‘Gold Award’. Continue to develop the use of the Convention as a ‘thread’ and ‘framework’ for the school’s improvement plan and policies. Continue cross-referencing particular rights with […]

Unicef and leading shoe brand, Clarks, have worked in partnership to keep children safe since 2008. In that time, Clarks have contributed to transforming children’s lives through shoeSHARE, gathering old or unwanted shoes at collection points in more than 450 Clarks stores nationwide.  Clarks are helping Unicef to continue providing basic resources such as pens […]

The RRS Ambassadors met on Wednesday to discuss the coming months . They also introduced the new ‘Article of the Month’ and ‘Thought for the Month’ to their own class and KS1 and EYFS. We look forward to working with our Parent Ambassadors in the near future. Global Learning Platform ‘WE walk for Water’ is […]

WE Schools  challenges young people to identify the local and global issues that spark their passion and empowers them with the tools to take action.  This week we have shared information with the children about the importance of clear water and sanitation and global issues related to this. Thank you to everyone who contributed a […]