Our Rights committee have been busy…

Below is a video of two of our committee members providing an outline of one of the important articles within the UNCRC:

Rights homework

The Rights committee have worked hard to promote rights across the school by creating a homework activity to involve all learners in promoting the UNCRC across Arkleston. Here are some of our designs –

Mental Health Awareness week 2024 – 

The Rights committee and the nurture committee worked together to help promote Mental Health Awareness week 2024 as we promote Article 31: The Right to relax and play. During this period we worked hard to showcase our new playground equipment and zones to help our mental health and showcase what our duty bearers within Arkleston provided in allowing us to exercise this right. In doing so, we completed the daily mile every day to raise funds for the school and we wrote persuasive letters as we campaigned for donations to help towards fulfilling our right to play and education further.

Below is a video and pictures of our busy week campaigning: 

Please click the two links below to visit our twitter page to video our campaign video:

Pupil voice – 

Our rights committee have been busy generating ideas for our School courtyard and gaining pupil voice (Article 12) regarding ways they would like our school courtyard to look like and be used for during learning time. We created a ‘Have your say’ board in our school which evidenced what pupils said (‘You said’) and our duty bearers actioned (‘We did’).

This is what our courtyard looked like before:

The rights committee have collected different opinions and views from pupils across different stages about how they would like the courtyard to look. Have a look at our designs:

Having the right to be listened to and taken seriously is an important right our duty bearers ensure pupils have at Arkleston. We recognised the wonderful ideas our pupils had regarding the courtyard and we actioned this by taking on board their ideas and actioning change by working together to create our new courtyard look. Have a look at our courtyard now:

Our rights committee wrote to the parent council asking for support and funding help. We applied to the UK groundwork association and placed a bid, we were successful and were up against two other projects in Renfrewshire. Our community had to work together to collect tokens and the winning box with the highest amount of tokens would win £1500. We are excited to tell you, we won first prize and are beginning to purchase a range of equipment to support our right to a healthy mind. Watch this space…