RRSA Spotlight

A CPD resource

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RRSA Spotlight is a staff development resource

SPOTLIGHT on RRSA is a staff CPD resource that will support the adults in your setting to develop and deepen their knowledge and understanding of children’s rights and the Rights Respecting Schools Award framework.

The resources are designed to be used flexibly, whether in staff meetings, staff INSET training sessions, department or year group meetings or within specific teams such as personal development or safeguarding.

Why not build some of these sessions into your CPD calendar for the year?

Introducing Staff to the RRSA

  • Perfect for schools just starting out on their RRSA journey, or coming back to focus on children’s rights. This session is a great starting point for staff to explore what it means to be a Rights Respecting School, and to explore the Convention on the Rights of the Child and what this means for children and young people in your setting.
  • Download Being a Rights Respecting School PowerPoint

 

  • A refresher CPD session for your colleagues covering important rights concepts including rights holders and duty bearers, the ABCDE of rights, and creating charters. Perfect for schools who are already on their Rights Respecting journey, why not use this at the start of the academic year or the start of a new term to get off to the ‘right’ start!
  • Download the Rights Refresher PowerPoint

Strand A - Teaching and Learning About Rights

  • This CPD session will support your staff team to consider 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. 
  • Download the Rights in the Curriculum PowerPoint
  • This session will support staff to explore how to strengthen the links to rights when using books in your current curriculum and consider how to further develop this work creatively through new ideas and texts.
  • Download the threading rights through your curriculum using literature PowerPoint
  • This session will support staff to consider how to strengthen links to rights within art, dance, drama and music.
  • Download the Exploring rights through the arts PowerPoint
  • This session will support staff to think about how you can develop pupils’ understanding of the lived experience of children locally and globally. It will explore how using a rights lens can help to challenge stereotypes and discrimination so that all children are seen as rights holders rather than just recipients of charity.
  • Download the Global Citizenship from a rights perspective PowerPoint
    • 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.
    • Download the Engaging Governors PowerPoint (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)
    • Download the Parent Councils PowerPoint (Scotland)

 

Strand B - Teaching and Learning Through Rights

  • This CPD session will support staff to explore and feel more confident in using rights language, and identify ways that rights language can be embedded across the school community.
  • Download the understanding and using Rights Respecting language PowerPoint
  • On your journey to 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.
  • Download the Fairness and Equity PowerPoint
  • This session is useful for schools at Silver and Gold stages of the RRSA. It will support staff to think about the complexity of balancing rights, including recognising that rights sometimes come into conflict, and exploring when rights may need to be balanced or limited in some way.​
  • Download the Balancing Rights PowerPoint
  • This session will support staff to consider how to incorporate or strengthen the use of a rights respecting approach to relationships across the school. Staff will explore how the language of rights can be used when resolving conflict and consider how to create an ethos and culture that is underpinned by mutual respect.
  • Download the using rights to strengthen your work on positive relationships PowerPoint
  • As schools work towards the Gold RRSA, you are asked to explore the concept of dignity, a concept which underpins human rights. This session will support staff to think about what dignity means to them, how children’s dignity can be supported within your setting, and to then consider how to explore this concept in an age-appropriate way with children and young people.
  • Download the exploring dignity.  PowerPoint
  • This session will support staff to use the CRC framework to strengthen and support your safeguarding work, including how using the language of rights can strengthen your safeguarding culture for both rights holders and duty bearers.
  • Download the using rights to strengthen your work on safeguarding PowerPoint
  • Using this resource, staff will develop a shared understanding of terminology, identify existing good practice that celebrates diversity and promotes equality and inclusion, understand how RRSA and a child rights perspective can provide a clear context for inclusive practice, and identify next steps to further develop all areas of inclusion.
  • Download the Equality and Inclusion in a Rights Respecting School PowerPoint
  • 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.
  • Download the Exploring the right to education PowerPoint

Strand C - Teaching and Learning For Rights

  • Strengthening pupil participation in school life is a key part of becoming a Rights Respecting School. This session will support staff to identify current practice and opportunities for pupil participation in school, and discuss how to further develop pupil participation and engagement across all aspects of school life.
  • Download the strengthening pupil participation across your school PowerPoint
  • This CPD session will support staff to understand what campaigning is and how it fits into the RRSA framework. They will explore how campaigning can empower and engage children and young people and how to facilitate children and young people to engage in campaigning.
  • Download the developing your campaigning work with children and young people PowerPoint
  • 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! 
  • Rights Refresher
  • 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.
  • Download the Rights and the Environment PowerPoint

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