St. Cadoc's Rights-Respecting Schools

Our Progress – Reflecting on our efforts…We are GOLDEN!

Committees 

We started to participate in committees. At first, we started off with not that many people but then we got more and more people. We joined different groups. Every two weeks on a Monday we go to a meeting and every two weeks, on a Thursday, we present to different classes (Article 12). 

COP 26 

We learned about climate change and the disastrous effects of human actions on on our planet. Prime Ministers and Presidents came to the UK (Glasgow!) to discuss climate change and COP 26. People are trying to help the environment and lessen climate change. Here are some ways that you can help: plant more trees, use less paper & plastic, don’t buy products containing palm oil, and try to buy sustainable products wherever you can (Article 24).

Equality & Equity  

Equality means the state of being equal in status rights or opportunities. Whereas equality is giving everyone a shoe, equity is giving everyone a shoe that fits. Equity is important to make sure everyone receives support they need (Article 3). 

Anti-Bullying 

The goal of anti-bullying learning and campaigning is to stop bulling and unkind behaviour. Here are some types of bullying: verbal, cyber, physical, and social. People ages 12-18 are sometimes bullied, but also younger children. These types of bullying can affect your mental health (Article 19 and 2). 

Rights Language  

We did a PowerPoint on the 5 Key Words for Rights: Universal, Unconditional, Inherent, Indivisible, Unalienable. Universal means that everyone around the world knows about it; inherent means that it always be there; indivisible means unable to be separated or divided; unconditional means not a subject to any condition; unalienable means we will always have these rights throughout our lives (Article 30). 

World Children’s Day 

We delivered an assembly about this special day. We showed different classes how people travel to school around the world, and assigned them a see, think and wonder task. They also had to write a question about the images they looked at.

The Gold Award 

We have been creating presentations to teach everyone about rights to achieve the Gold Award and develop all of our pupils’ knowledge. Our aim was to achieve the Gold Award by February 2022. After challenging work and dedication, we finally had the opportunity to showcase this, and found out in March that we had achieved our biggest goal yet!!!

Thank you for reading,

RRS Ambassadors.

Hi, it’s RRS Ambassadors here. We are going to tell you what we have been doing these past few months! 

Updates: 

We have got a few new Ambassadors that have joined the committee but it doesn’t end there! Everyone in the school has had the opportunity to participate in a committee. Some of those committees include Pupil Council, RRS, Eco, STEAM etc.

What have we been up to? 

We have been creating presentations on Anti-Bullying, COP26, World Children’s Day and many more.

We celebrated World Children’s Day on the 19th of November by learning about how children make their way to school.

We are trying to reach for the Gold Award in the next couple of months.

What is coming up next? 

Human Rights Day on 10th December. We are going to be creating and delivering a presentation to share this with pupils in our school next week.

Here are a few Articles that are linked to the work we have been doing: 

• COP26 – We have the Right to a clean environment (Article 24).
• World Children’s Day – We learnt how children in different countries make their way to school (Article 28 and Article 3).
• Anti-Bullying Week – It is about how to be kind (Article 2 and 19).
• Equality and Equity – The best interests of the Child (Article 3).
• Rights Language – The main words to remember to describe what rights are: Universal, Indivisible, Unconditional, Inherent and Inalienable.

Definitions: 

• Universal – Everyone around the world has rights.
• Indivisible – You need everyone right because without out one right it will not function properly.
• Unconditional – Every child has rights, no matter who they are or where they come from.
• Inherent – Your rights will be with you until you are 18.
• Inalienable – Your rights will stay with you forever, no matter what.

The difference between Equality & Equity:  

• Equality – Giving a shoe randomly to people.
• Equity – Giving a shoe that fits a person well.

Thank you for reading our latest post; speak to you soon! 

The whole school was involved in the International Women’s Day #ChooseToChallenge celebrations. We celebrated the wonderful, strong women in our own lives and also enjoyed learning about some remarkable women from around the world.

We most definitely have many inspirational women of the future in St Cadoc’s!

Article 13:

You have the right to find out things and say what you think, through making art, speaking and writing, unless it harms the rights of others.

Article 2:

You have the right to protection against discrimination. This means that nobody can treat you badly because of your colour, sex or religion, if you speak another language, have a disability, or are rich or poor.

Miss Mackay & the The Rights Ambassadors 😊

World Book Day was celebrated across the school and nursery both online and in school! We all had great fun celebrating our love of books. Some of us built reading dens at home to enjoy our favourite books in and even had class meetings online from our dens! Children in school were lucky enough to have our janitor Mr Campbell come in to their classes to read a very funny story. We had a great day and all pupils took part in a special competition to design a book cover. The winner will be announced soon and the winning design is going to made into a poster for our new library area!

Article 28:

You have the right to an education.

Article 13:

You have the right to find out things and say what you think, through making art, speaking and writing, unless it breaks the rights of others.

Miss Mackay & the The Rights Ambassadors 😊

Fairtrade Fortnight #ChooseTheWorldYouWant was celebrated across the school, online and in the building. There were many activities to help all of us to understand more about Fairtrade and we really enjoyed learning all about this year’s special theme ‘Climate Fairtrade and You’. Some of the activities we chose to do were: create a Fairtrade restaurant at home, research where Cocoa grows around the world, bake delicious Fairtrade treats for our family, create a Fairtrade Farm in a shoebox, and we even had our own P6 Fairtrade superhero!

Article 29:

You have the right to education which tries to develop your personality and abilities as much as possible and encourages you to respect other people’s rights and values and to respect the environment.

Article 12:

You have the right to an opinion and for it to be listened to and taken seriously.

Miss Mackay & the The Rights Ambassadors 😊

We decided at the start of this year that it would be a really good idea to create a new school logo and values – Love, Achieve, Respect and Kindness – to reflect our Rights Respecting Schools work and to make it very clear what our school is all about. We remember this using the acronym ‘LARK’ and by thinking about this little bird. The pupils, staff and parents worked together to create our beautiful new logos! We are delighted with how they look and will be celebrating achievements related to the values throughout the year.

Mrs McBride even had some super photo frames made so that we can share our achievements on Twitter with our parents!

Article 29:

You have the right to education which tries to develop your personality and abilities as much as possible and encourages you to respect other people’s rights and values and to respect the environment.

Miss Mackay & the The Rights Ambassadors 😊

We are here to tell you about the latest campaign that we participated in! In February, Primary 4 – 7 took part in the Send My Friend To School (Keep All Our Friends Learning) campaign, to spread awareness about Article 28 (The right to an education) and the extent to which this is often denied around the world, for different reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, we were encouraged to use our voice to raise concerns about global issues – some incredibly meaningful learning occurred!

“We’re calling for all children, everywhere, to keep learning safely during the COVID-19 pandemic”

We explored case studies to discover the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young people’s education around the world and compare and contrast these with our own experiences:

 

We took this a step further to amplify the message, sending our concerns and ideas with our local MPs, to push for change! We can’t wait to hear a response from them and we will let you know what they have to say.

 

This experience was valuable as it developed our understanding of social justice and the vital role that we can play in righting injustices at home and around the world – we are well on our way to becoming proactive citizens of the world!

Miss Mackay, Mrs Lindsay & The Rights Ambassadors 😊

 

In November, the whole school took part in various learning activities for this year’s OutRight Campaign. We all focused on the importance of Climate Change and what a changing climate means for children’s rights. Across the school, we looked into what climate change is, how it affects us, and what we can do to help.

We explored a variety of activities – writing to the COP26 President and ‘Conversations about Climate with Adults’ – which involved interviewing and creating questions to ask our teachers and parents what they know about climate change and have observed in their lifetime and its effects – especially on children.

Classes made fantastic ‘Then and Now’ posters highlighting how climate change affects different eco-systems around the world. These activities helped us to gain a better understanding of climate change and how it affects children’s rights across the world.
We then showcased all of our brilliant Climate Change work on World Children’s Day on the 20th November. The whole school was invited to view this and celebrate our amazing contributions!

Here is a quote from Ava (Primary 6) – ‘It is clear that climate change is affecting the world and the effects are really worrying. The posters and the conversations we have been having will make a difference.’

We know that, together, we can make a change!

Mrs Burns & The Rights Ambassadors 😊

Article 24:

Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy.