Towerbank Rights Respecting Schools' Award

Here is our School Development Plan. You can see that Children’s rights take a central part within our panning process. This fabulous illustration is displayed in our school entrance lobby.

At the end of last year, the RRSA steering group had a tough decision to make… We had almost 100 entries to our mascot competition and we found it really tricky to narrow it down to just 3. In the end, we made a decision as a group and here are the 3 new mascots for Towerbank’s School Charter:

Article 15 – Friendship Freddie

Article 19 – Roxie

Article 29 – Wilbur 

The results from our vote are now in…

The 3 rights for our school charter will be:

Article 15 – you have the right to choose your friends and form groups so long as they are not harmful to others.

Article 19 – You have the right to be protected from harm, in body or in mind.

Article 29 – You have the right to an education that develops your personality, talents and abilities to the fullest. It should encourage you to respect other peoples’ human rights, and your own and other cultures. It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.

In August, our brand new school charter will be officially launched and for this we need your help. Josh had a brilliant idea of designing a mascot to represent each of the 3 rights. This will help each right become identifiable and will also help the younger children to understand what the school charter means.

We will be running a mascot designing competition to decide what these mascots will look like. The competition is open from all P5-7s and you can enter as many times as you wish.

Here are some of the contest guidelines:

• Contest runs from today until 8^th June (two weeks)
• Mascots must have a name and bright, attractive design related to your chosen right.
• Your entry should be done on A4 paper and your name and class should be on the back.
• You can do just one mascot or design a mascot for each of the chosen rights.
• Winning entries will be displayed around the school.
• Entries should be submitted to your class RRSA steering group rep.
• Winner will be announced before the end of term.
• If you have any questions, please see your RRSA rep.

We look forward to seeing all your designs!

We have been voting for the rights that will feature in our school charter. The steering group spoke at 2 assemblies about why each of the 5 rights on the shortlist was important to Towerbank, and pupils were then given 3 pebbles to vote for the 3 rights they would like to see become our school charter. The pebbles were then counted and the winning rights will be revealed at an upcoming assembly… 

Today we looked at the class charters from across the school and tallied up the rights that appeared in the most charters. We then met with Mr Friend to discuss how we could turn these into a whole school charter. We decided that we will ask everyone in the school to vote between the top 5 rights at an upcoming assembly. Watch this space for the results…

Take a look at some more of our class charters…