Here at Ynyshir Primary School, we have just started our journey to become a Rights Respecting School.

The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) at the heart of a school’s planning, policies, practice and ethos. A rights-respecting school not only teaches about children’s rights but also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between teachers / adults and pupils, between adults and between pupils.

RRSA and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

The universality of the CRC provides a clear link for pupils between building up their rights-respecting school, understanding their rights and the need for children’s rights to be realised everywhere. Children and young people in rights-respecting schools develop a stronger sense of the need to act for global justice.

Rights Respecting School Council Meeting
15.12.2017

Today our steering group met for the first time. it was great to see the adults working closely with the children in order to improve our school and explore the 42 Rights of the Child.

Our Current Rights Respecting School Council 2016/17

Over the next few weeks we will be recruiting members for our Rights Respecting Schools Council and Steering Group.

Rights Respecting Schools Mascot

As you know, Ynyshir Primary School is working very hard to become a Rights Respecting School.

This year, the RRS committee have been busy making a Rights Calendar for every classroom, which focuses on a different right every month, and they held a very exciting “Design a Mascot” competition for the whole school.

They decided that it would be fantastic to have a RRS Mascot that could be displayed around the school to identify any RRS work.

Here is our winning mascot...