Rights Respecting Champions

Intent

Four Dwellings Primary Academy is a Rights Respecting School. Being a Rights Respecting school means that adults and children work together to create a positive learning environment in which children’s rights are recognised and promoted across all aspects of the curriculum.  

Our aim is to ensure that all children are aware of their rights and that they understand how they relate to their lives, and those of others, both inside of school and outside within the wider community. 

Implementation

• A raised awareness of children’s rights across the curriculum allowing more input from themselves as valued members of our school.  

• Weekly assemblies in which children are able to discuss important issues facing the world around them. 

• A Rights Respecting Council in which children are able to share and discuss their classmates’ ideas and opinions about the school and the wider community. 

• Events in which children can participate and raise awareness of their rights both for themselves and those around them. 

Impact

There are four key areas of impact for children within a Rights Respecting school; wellbeing, participation, relationships and self-esteem. As individuals, children will

• gain a sense of belonging as a valued member of their class and school. 

• develop oracy skills and therefore feel more confident when voicing their own opinions and ideas.

• become more aware of the importance of their own education and wellbeing.

• be more able to reflect on their actions and the impact they have on their own learning and that of their peers.