Rights Respecting School | St Hugh's Catholic Primary School

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Rights Respecting School

The staff lead is Miss Murray

A UNICEF Rights Respecting School is a school that ensures children’s rights are taught, understood and lived in school.

Rights Respecting schools put in place a set of standards based on equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation based on the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. These values are ever-present in a Rights Respecting school, from the classroom to the lunch hall. As a result, the Rights Respecting Schools Award transforms whole schools into places where children feel safe, nurtured and in control of their futures.

St Hugh’s is proud to have achieved the Rights Respecting Bronze Award and we are currently on our journey to achieving Silver Accreditation. The Rights Respecting Ambassadors are responsible for ensuring the right's of children are upheld and respected at St Hugh's.

Meet our Rights Respecting Ambassadors for this year:

Please click here to view the 'Parents guide' to a Rights Respecting School.

Children's Mental Health Week

Our Rights Respecting Ambassadors and our Shining Lights Council helped Miss Oldbury and Miss Murray to deliver an important assembly for Children's Mental Health Week. They read quotes from inspirational people about how to look after your well-being and learn to Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. Both councils led activities within their classes to explore different emotions and how to look after their mental health.

Voting for RRSA mascot

The RRSA council set our whole school a challenge to design a St Hugh's mascot. They recieved lots of entries from across the school. They met to vote for their favourite one and decided on 'Rachel the Rights Respecting Rabbit'. They chose a plush teddy to match our mascot, which is awarded to different classes in EYFS, KS1 and KS2 for showing that they are committed to the key principles of the RRSA (equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation).

Writing Charters

The RRSA council met to write some new school charters. They wrote one for moving around school and one for lunchtimes. They wrote them up to be displayed in each classroom and around the playground and lunch hall. They agreed to remind others of our charters around school to ensure that our school environment is a respected and happy place. They agreed that this linked to Article 12 (The right to respect children's views).

Harvest Festival

The RRSA council teamed up with the Mini Vinnies to collect donations for Harvest festival to donate to our local food banks. They organised and catagorised the donations to ensure that each food bank recieved a range of food and toiletries. They agreed that this linked to Article 27 (The right to food, clothing and a safe home).

Class Charters

The RRSA council and Shining Lights have teamed up to discuss creating class charters for their new classes in September. They agreed that they would lead discussions with their new teachers to create a personalised class charter linked to the convention on the rights of the child. They were awared with special Rights Respecting stickers to give out to children upholding our school and class charters during lunch times and play times.

Finished class charters

At the start of the year, our RRS Ambassadors led their own classes in creating charters for their classrooms. They linked this to the RRS Articles. Take a look at some of their displays!

Earth Day

On Earth Day, our Eco and RRS Ambassadors spent time in our Eco Garden. They picked litter, swept and cleared our raised planters. We were so proud of how hard the children worked and how the older children helped the younger years - team work makes the dream work! We now look forward to using the funds, raised by the children wearing their own clothes, to plant some new flowers, fruits and vegetables.

Foodbank Visit

Our RRS Ambassadors visited our local foodbank to donate the items collected by our Reception children. At the foodbank they heard more about the families that it helps and how to weigh, sort and date the food. When they returned to school, they shared the details of this visit with their classes to raise awareness of food poverty.

Foodbank collection

Our RRS Ambassadors supported Reception to start a collection for our local foodbank. The Reception children explained to our RRS Ambassadors how their food bank collection linked to Article 27 (The right to food, clothing and a safe home). All of the children then made posters to thank their grown-ups for helping them with this collection.

Children's Mental Health Week

During Children's Mental Health Week, our RRS Ambassadors ran a creative lunch time club in Early Years. They set up painting, building, role-play and outdoor experiences. They were keen to promote Article 31 (The right to rest, play, culture and arts) during this important week!

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Click here to view our Lunch Hall Charter

Click here to view our Lining Up and Moving Around School Charter

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