Rights Respecting

At Stranton Primary School we are a UNICEF Rights Respecting School and at the heart of our ethos are the values of the Convention on the Rights of a Child.

The Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA) is an initiative run by UNICEF UK, which encourages schools to place the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of its ethos and curriculum. This means that we teach children about their rights according to the United Nations Convention.

In April 2025, we were incredibly proud to be re-accredited as a Gold Rights Respecting School. This means we have fully embedded children's rights throughout your school's policy, practice and ethos.

Achieving GOLD means there is evidence that:

Children and the wider school community know about and understand the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and can describe how it impacts on their lives and on the lives of children everywhere.
Actions and decisions affecting children are rooted in, reviewed and resolved through rights. Children and adults collaborate to develop and maintain a school community based on equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation.
Children are empowered to enjoy and exercise their rights and to promote the rights of others locally and globally.

The ‘Rights Respecting School Award’ (RRSA) helps our children grow into thoughtful, respectful and responsible young members of the school and wider community. By learning about their rights, our children also learn about the importance of respecting the rights of others.

Please click below to see the full report.

RRSA Gold Report

Rights Respecting Steering Group

Mrs. Grant – Head of school

Miss Griffiths – RRS Lead

Mrs. Wilson – Well-being Lead / School Councillors

Learning Charters

All classes develop a learning charter at the start of the school term to promote a positive learning environment for everyone. Charters include the role of the rights holders and the duty bearers. At Stranton Primary School, the rights of the child underpin our school values and ethos of the school. Children start the school day by talking about our school values and how these link to the rights of the child. Children are also taught about rights through weekly, themed assemblies and a weekly reflection lesson to discuss the article of the week. Articles are linked to lessons throughout the day.

Steering Group Meetings

School Councillors who are also our Rights Ambassadors attend fortnightly meetings with the RRS Lead to discuss initiatives, ideas and projects and to help support the community in Rights Respecting work.

School Mascot

This is our Rights Respecting School Mascot. We held a competition to design a mascot that would be on all displays around school. It was designed by a Year 4 pupil. It

represents that all children around the world have rights.

OUTRIGHT

The children took part in OUTRIGHT and this years theme was campaigning. They participated in their activities by thinking and creating posters that were given to school council with different ideas for us to campaign for. E.g. No smoking/vaping and more play equipment for the school.

Article 12 - Your right to a voice and to be heard.

Rights Respecting Events

February 2025

We discussed Article 24 during our soft start to raise awareness in relation to our themed week of ‘Children’s Mental Health Week’.

January 2025

We launched our Rights Respecting Campaign ‘Teddy Rights’ who has been brought to Stranton to help children and parents better understand children’s rights.

Article 5 - Learn how to use your rights as you grow up.

Teddy Rights has had a lovely weekend with Eleanor ✨️

She has looked after him and kept him safe. 🧸 (Articles 19 and 20)

He has enjoyed a delicious Sunday dinner at nana and granda's house. (Article 27)

He had lots of fun at Jump 360. ❤️ (Article 31)

Poppy is taking Teddy Rights very seriously. He's relaxed on the balance board, had a snack, enjoyed playing with the girls and has even received a Headteacher Award for good balancing and listening very carefully. 🥰😍

December 2024

We discussed Article 4 and 41 in our weekly soft start to celebrate and spread awareness for ‘Human Rights Day’.

November 2024

Article 12 - Your right to a voice and to be heard.

October 2024

We discussed Article 2 and 30 in our weekly soft start ‘Article of the Week’ to show our support and raise awareness in support for Black History Month.

September 2024

The start of a new year means new class charters. All of our classes have worked as a team to discuss the articles, and which are the most important to them.

Article 2 - All children have these rights, no matter what.

June 2024

The whole school took part in careers day learning about different jobs that we might want to pursue in the future.

Article 28: Children have the right to an education.

April 2024

Eco Warriors have been improving the secret garden. They tidied the planters and planted a variety of fruit and vegetables.

Article 24: Children have the right to good health.

March 2024

In RE, Class 3 have been learning about the Hindu celebration of Raksha Bandhan. We made our own Rakhi bracelets to remind us that during this celebration siblings promise to protect each other.

Article 14: Children have the right to their own beliefs.

February 2024

As part of OUTRIGHT school council delivered an assembly on endangered animals around the world caused by climate change. We held a Wear it Wild Day in school to support this cause.

Article 24: Children have the right to good health.

January 2024

School Council led whole school assembly to introduce our new Junior Road Safety Officers. They talked about the importance of keeping safe in the winter and launched their first competition to design some clothing to help you be seen in the dark.

Article 19: Children have the right to be safe.

November 2023

School Council led whole school assembly to explain the importance of supporting Children in Need.

Article 2: All children have rights regardless of their race, religion or disability.

October 2023

As part of Black History Month the children enjoyed playing lots of different African instruments.

Article 2, 29 and 30.

February 2023

We have been campaigning to help make our school carpark a safe place. The junior Road Safety Officers worked alongside Mrs Yildirim and Peter from the council to patrol the school carpark. We issued parking tickets to the cars that were not properly parked.

Article 19: Children have the right to be safe.

This year OUTRIGHT is about health care. A child from each year group shared what they had been learning about in assembly.

Article 24 - Children have the right to be healthy.

November 2022

We have appointed two Junior Road Safety Officers in school, Moosa and Zeynep. They will promote road safety messages in school and to the wider community and hold termly competitions. School Council introduced the Junior Road Safety Officers in assembly and talked about keeping safe in the dark.

Article 19: Children have the right to be safe.

October 2022

Today we supported 'Show Racism the Red Card' in school. We had a special visitor; a local policeman and football coach to lead our whole school assembly and talk about discrimination and racism.

Article 2: All children have rights regardless of their race, religion and ability.

March 2022

We celebrated World Book Day by coming to school dressed as our favourite book characters.

Article 28 – all children have the right to an education.

To help us to become Global Citizens we have taken part in the tin can challenge. Each class collected as many tin cans of food as possible and the class that collected the most won a treat for the whole class. School Council distributed the tins to people in our local community.

Class 3 enjoying their treat for collecting the most tin cans.

February

The children in Early Years enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year. They made dragons and money wallets. Their favourite part was tasting Chinese food.

Article 28: All children have a right to learn and go to school.

Article 14: All children have a right to follow their own religion.

Our KS2 children had a great time at our Cluster Dodgeball Tournament. They were a credit to the school and showed lots of commitment and sportsmanship.

Article 29 - Education should develop each child’s personality and talents to the full.