Rights Respecting Schools Award
At Button Lane Primary School, we are committed to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) which has 45 Articles. These rights are universal and unconditional. For more information on the Articles view them here.
We are very proud to have been awarded the Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award in 2020 and are now preparing for our Silver reaccreditation visit before going for Gold!
Our Rights Respecting Journey
At Button Lane, we are currently on our Rights Respecting journey. This means we are working with UNICEF to embed the rights of children into our daily life at school.
The Rights Respecting Schools Award recognises schools who put the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice.
We have already received the Silver Award which means we are 'Rights Aware', and we are currently working towards the Gold Award, the highest level of the Award which is granted to schools that have fully embedded the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into their ethos and curriculum. We are working together to ensure our children and adults know how to realise and promote children's rights. In order to do this, we focus on three main strands; A-Teaching and learning about rights, B-Teaching and learning through rights-Ethos and Relationship C-Teaching and learning for rights- participation, empowerment and action.
Meet our RRS Ambassadors
We have a RRS Ambassador from each class from Year 2 to Year 6. You will spot them wearing their big blue ambassador badges around school. Their role is to act as a steering group lead the implementation of our RRS action plan, between children and adults in the school community. Our RRS Ambassadors also plan, research, write and deliver the school newspaper.
The school newspaper
The RRS ambassadors decide what to include in the paper, they interview other pupils to ensure their voices are heard. Each member has a role-writer, researcher, artist, photographer, delivery .
Read the latest edition of our newspaper below or choose an older edition from the links.
