Forms and Guides
Silver: Rights Aware
Here are the forms and guides you will need to work towards Silver: Rights Aware.
Please read our step-by-step guidance for more information on what you need to do to achieve your Silver: Rights Aware accreditation.
If you have any queries, or would like further advice and support, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the RRSA Team at [email protected] or your regional Professional Adviser.
For a school to achieve the Silver accreditation, it must have evidence that it has reached the three strands of a Rights Respecting School at Silver. A school uses these strands and other guidance provided to plan and monitor progress.
Download Strands and Outcomes
This checklist gives a succinct overview of what a school must do to achieve Silver: Rights Aware, the second stage of the Award.
Please complete and send this form to your Professional Adviser when you wish to take your Silver Accreditation.
The accreditation visit programme template provides a suggested programme for the online accreditation visit by a UNICEF UK assessor(s). Read all about the Silver: Rights Aware accreditation process here.
The School Evaluation: Silver is used to evidence a school’s progress towards meeting the outcomes for the Silver: Rights Aware accreditation. Schools need to complete the form when they feel ready for their Silver accreditation visit.
The purpose of the evidence pack is to give us a feel for your school and show us some of what we would usually see if we were physically visiting your school and viewing your physical evidence file.
We have produced the guidance below and a template evidence pack to help you bring your evidence together.
- Please be selective – you do not need to send us everything as most of the accreditation process and subsequent report is based on what you, your colleagues and your pupils tell us during the virtual visit.
- Provide the evidence in a single PowerPoint deck (or similar presentation tool) with sections for Strand A, B, C.
- Have a contents page slide for each strand. In your PowerPoint deck (or similar presentation) please aim to include a maximum of 2 or 3 pieces of evidence for each outcome (there are 9 outcomes of the award) with a maximum of 30 slides in total.
- Feel free to include hyperlinks to useful information on your website.
- The evidence should be linked to what you write in your evaluation form so we can cross reference.
- Please ensure we can see the detail on photographs of displays and ensure you are following your child protection policies when sharing photographs and videos.
- We need to receive the evidence at least two weeks before the accreditation visit and earlier if possible.
- Do involve the pupils in your steering group to help create the evidence presentation if you can.
- Quotes from parents are useful as we often don’t get a chance to speak to them at the virtual visit.
- Short video clips or voice overs are welcome.
- Examples of children’s work on rights are useful and can be photographed and added to the evidence presentation.
We will delete all materials sent after the accreditation report is completed.
Download the RRSA school questionnaire guidance
Download the supplementary guidance and access to Accessible questionnaires
Online questionnaires
You can set up all versions of the questionnaire online using the links below.
• Set up the Primary pupil, Secondary pupil and Staff questionnaires online
• Set up the Accessible pupil questionnaire and Adult Observation versions online
Hard copies: If you would prefer to use hard copy Word versions, you can find them in the guidance documents above.
HOW TO SHARE YOUR QUESTIONNAIRE DATA WITH US
At Silver:
Six weeks prior to your accreditation visit you will receive a link to our SRM Portal where you will input your questionnaire data and impact evaluation.
Please upload your data promptly and accurately as it is used to help us analyse pupils’ experiences and outcomes across Rights Respecting Schools. It does not form part of your accreditation outcome but may be referenced during a visit.
Findings templates:
WHY THE QUESTIONNAIRES ARE IMPORTANT
The questionnaires have two purposes:
1. They give schools a consistent way to review RRSA progress with pupils and staff at key points.
2. They provide data for our wider evaluation of the programme.
We use this data to evaluate the impact of RRSA and understand the difference it makes for children across schools. You can read more about this in our RRSA impact reports. You may also find it useful to read RRSA Theory of Change, which explains our vision for change for children and schools.
We share evaluation findings with stakeholders interested in RRSA, including schools, local authorities and current or potential funding partners.
