RRSA Spotlight
A monthly CPD resource
RRSA Spotlight is a monthly continuing professional development resource.
This resource is designed for use in staff meetings or training sessions and to support staff within schools to learn more about children’s rights, the Strands and Outcomes of the Rights Respecting Schools Award and reflect on their own practice. This resource is not intended for use with students.
Upcoming and past packs for 2024 to 2025
- A refresher CPD session for your colleagues covering important rights concepts including rights holders and duty bearers, the ABCDE of rights, and creating charters. Get your academic year off to the ‘right’ start!
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- This CPD session will support your staff team to think about how to build rights into teaching and learning. It will explore how to cover articles explicitly through the curriculum and encourage you to think about progression in understanding.
- Rights in the Curriculum
- This session will support staff in your school to think about how to use rights as a framework for discussing complex and controversial issues.
- Balancing Rights
- On your RR journey towards Gold, you will be asked to explore the concepts of fairness and equity with your pupils. This session will support staff to develop their understanding of these concepts and consider how to explore these with children. Expected publication date 21 Nov.
- This session will support your staff team to think about how you can support pupils to develop their understanding of the lived experience of children locally and globally. It will support you to consider how you can use a rights lens to challenge stereotypes and discrimination so that all children are seen as rights holders rather than just recipients of charity. Expected publication date 16 Jan.
- The arts offer a powerful vehicle for exploring children’s rights and the principles and values that underpin rights. This session will support staff to consider how to strengthen links to rights within art, dance, drama and music. Expected publication date 20 Feb.
- This session is aimed at governing bodies/parent councils and will support these groups to consider how to strengthen their work to embed rights into the strategic governance of your school including developing your vision and values, school improvement planning, policy development, and monitoring and evaluation. Expected publication date 20 March.
- This CPD session will support staff to consider how your school ensures that all children feel valued and included and ensure that the principle of non-discrimination is embedded throughout your ethos and culture, policy and practice. Expected publication date 24 April.
- Many schools are increasingly working on the environment and sustainability. This session will support staff to make the links between their work on the environment and sustainability with children’s rights. Expected publication date 15 May.
- This session will focus on Outcome 7 of the RRSA framework. It will support colleagues to explore the right to education in more depth and consider how pupils are supported to engage with and play an active role in their learning. Expected publication date 19 June
Past packs for 2023 to 2024 – click to download
Past packs you may wish to use to build into your CPD calendar:
RRSA Overview
Strand A
- Spotlight on threading rights through your curriculum using literature.
- Spotlight on engaging families and the wider community with your Rights Respecting work.
Strand B
- Spotlight on understanding and using Rights Respecting language.
- Spotlight on using rights to strengthen your work on positive relationships.
- Spotlight on exploring dignity.
- Spotlight on using rights to strengthen your work on safeguarding.
- Spotlight on using rights to strengthen your work on wellbeing.
- Spotlight on Equality and Inclusion in a Rights Respecting School, ahead of Black History Month.
Strand C
