Our school’s vision and values have at their heart the importance of treating each other as we would want to be treated ourselves, with respect and dignity, making sure that each person is valued. This is one of the reasons why the work of UNICEF and Rights Respecting Schools is so significant to us.
We are incredibly proud to be a Rights Respecting school and having achieved the Silver: Rights Respecting Accreditation.
The UNICEF UK Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) is based on principles of equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation. The RRSA seeks to put the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s ethos and culture to improve well-being and develop every child’s talents and abilities to their full potential.
We believe in treating everybody with respect and dignity because we acknowledge everyone’s God given value and unique identity
A rights-respecting school is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. Young people and the school community learn about children’s rights by putting them into practice every day.
We feel it is important that when children learn about their rights it is important that deeper connections are also made in their understanding about the nature of rights so they are taught the ABCDE of their rights.
To find out more visit this website: https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/
Within our school, we hold the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the centre of everything we do.
We have an active Rights Respecting Schools committee which consists of Rights Ambassadors, representing all year groups in school. We meet every 3 weeks and deliver assemblies every term to inform all children in school of our work and ensure all children are familiar with their Rights.
| Rights Respecting Schools Representitives 2025/2026 | |||||
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Esther | Cassius | Dollie | Salwa | Alfie | Fatima |
Today with invited one of our Polish parents into Reception class to teach us all about Polish Easter traditions. We loved the beautifully colourful Polish palms and learnt all about what goes into a polish Easter basket.
We listened to a story about Smartie the penguin and learnt a song to help keep us safe online.
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This year’s theme is ‘This is my place’. We talked about supporting each other to feel like we belong. We also took part in a whole school mindfulness session.
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Y6 had a wonderful session today learning more about the wonderful work Mary’s Meals does feeding 3 million children daily across the world.
Year 5 took part in a fantastic work shop delivered by the Anthony Walker Foundation. We are an anti-racist school!
Our local PCSO came to visit Y5 and Y6 to talk about how we should behave in our community for the Common Good. We covered topics such as antisocial behavior and firework safety.
Year 5 created fantastic art work in the style of American artist Alma Thomas.
Members of Junior leadership team, School Council & Rights Respecting ambassadors attended a visit to the Liverpool Civil and Family Court to take part in a mock robbery trail. They were all given roles to play and even took part in a question and answer session with 3 serving judges from the Crown, Family and Employment courts.
Today we ate some delicious porridge and made a donation to raise money for Mary’s Meals. We learned how this charity provides children across the world with a warm nutritious mug of porridge each school day to help them stay healthy and increase their ability to learn and grow.
Our new Eco Council have had a busy first half term organising Fairtrade Fortnight. They delivered a whole school assembly on current Fairtrade issues & organised fundraising by selling raffles tickets for our annual Fairtrade hamper. The money raised will support global Fairtrade initiatives to ensure farmers get a fair deal for their goods.
Today we had a very informative visit from Noor (Asylum Link Merseyside) who delivered a whole school assembly and class workshops to teach us about what means to be a refuge or asylum seeker aswell as the fabulous work they do to support families in Liverpool.
Today we were privileged to be invited to take part in Liverpool Schools Parliament at the magnificent Liverpool Town Hall. Representatives from our Rights Respecting and Eco Council had the opportunity to meet our Lord Mayor and take part in a series of debates focusing on environmental issues in our schools. We came away feeling truly inspired with how we can really make a difference and look forward to adressing some of these initiatives in school right away.
Today our School Council led an assembly on Children’s Mental Health. We learnt about the importance of identifying our feelings to help us grow, as well as lots of strategies to support our own mental health every day.
Today we welcomed Jackie from CAFOD to teach us all about the Jubilee year. We learned about pilgrimages and about working together for the good of everybody.
Y6 reflected on the theme of solidarity this week during their assembly. They listened to the story of Shristi the Sun Bear and shared with the rest of the school the ways we stand together to help our global neighbours.
Our Rights Respecting focus group delivered an informative and interactive whole school assembly today focusing on the British Value ‘Rule of Law’. This led nicely into the official launch of Parliament Week.
Today as part of no pens day Y6 took part in a debate asking if money on space travel should be spent on people on Earth instead? There were lots of strong arguments on both sides. Well done Y6!
This week, Y6 have created manifestos and voted in a polling booth for the next Y6 prime minister.
Year 2 are very excited to have had a response from 10 Downing Street following our persuasive letters about stopping plastic pollution.
Following our Mental Health Week, our School Council decided to spread some positive messages throughout the school. These can be read on a daily basis by children, staff and visitors to give them a positive boost to their day.
