Rights Respecting Schools

Rights Respecting Schools Award

Struthers Primary is a Gold Level 2 Rights Respecting and Fair Achiever School.

The purpose of our committee is to raise awareness of the rights of the child.   This is an essential component of our school's improvement plan. It puts the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as one of the main cores of our school's planning, practice, policies and ethos.

The ABCDE of United Nations Convention of the Rights of a Child
UNIVERSAL - Rights are for ALL children
INHERENT – Rights are there from BIRTH for all children.
INALIENABLE – Rights CANNOT be taken or given away.
UNCONDITIONAL- Rights are for all children and DO not have to be earned.
INDIVISIBLE – All rights are EQUALLY important - NO right is more important than another
All children, everywhere have all the rights.
All adults have a duty to look after all children
Our pupil committee meet regularly.
This year we are focussing on Childrens’ rights across the globe.
We are continuing to support children in Diesploot, Africa and are still collecting our loose change in our JAM tins.
We also continue to support our friends in the Ugandan Orphanage.
We are continuing to support our school chaplains project building a school in Haiti.
We support our local foodbank and local charities regularly.
Our school charter, lunchtime and playground charters are updated every year.
Each class and committee also design their own charter each year.
We try to link our topics and school displays to the articles of the UNCRC and the 17 sustainable goals..
Representatives from our RRS Pupil committee also inform our pupils of the Articles which relate to our weekly school assembly.
We are continuing to ensure everyone in our school is valued and respected by all,
linking with the UNCRC, GIRFEC, SHANARRI and our school values.
The RRSA Committee is led by Mrs Boyd and Mr Haniford

Can you Help?

We are collecting new and old used stamps for the Bone Cancer Research Trust.
Primary bone cancer can occur at any age, but affects mostly children, teenagers, young adults and the elderly. On average 12 people every week are diagnosed across the UK and Ireland. The survival rate for this disease is just over 50% and this has not changed in the last 25 years. With your help we can work towards changing this, so more people have a chance to live!

Children in Need
We raised a massive £1017.45
Didn't we do well!
Thank you to all who helped.

We raised a marvellous £987 for MacMillan Cancer Care.
Thanks to P7 and all who helped or attended.

Article 6   Every child has the right to life. Governments must do all they can to make sure that children survive and develop to their full potential.
Article 19 Governments must do all they can to ensure that children are protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and bad treatment by their parents or anyone else who looks after them
Article 23   A child with a disability has the right to live am full and decent life with dignity and independence, and to play an active part in the community.
Article 24   Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must work to provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food and a clean environment so that children can stay healthy.
Article 27   Every child has the right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical, social and mental needs.
Article 28 Every child has the right to an education.
Article 29 Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment

Primary 4 had a very informative visit to the South Ayrshire
Food bank.
We helped sort out donated food and pack boxes to go to those in need
Article 24
Every child has the right to good food, clean water, health care and a clean environment

We had a wonderful Harvest Assembly and sent all the food we collected to our local Foodbank.
We also wore Purple and collected £287.55 for the Ayrshire Hospice on the same day

We took part in a walk to Haiti when we along with our cluster schools raised money to build a school in Haiti. Children, everywhere have a right to be educated.

We love to help children who are not as fortunate as us.

We built dens to highlight the difficulties people living in Third World countries face.

We all had great fun

We sent our wishes for the world to MPs on Unicef Day for Change

Our school and playground charter 2018-19

Mr Woods and Mr Montgomery, our school chaplains, visited the school we are helping to build and fund in Haiti. Mr Woods showed us photographs and told us all about their time there and the progress that is being made. Children will be in the school later this year.

Our Fairtrade ambassadors wrote to Parliament to try to ensure that Fairtrade will always be a priority.

We earned our Outright 2018 certificate.
We took part in the clean air test and are delighted we are in a low risk zone. P3 studied Paddington and how he was a refugee who came over to London to be safe and cared for.
P7s found Malala's story an inspiration and gave them lots of insight into the plight of others and how we can help.

We took part in the Dedication Service for the Great Troon Wall hanging in St Ninian's Church, this month. Two of our RRs ambassadors spoke to Sally Magnusson and The head of UNICEF Scotland.

We learned about Paddington being a refugee and then got signatures from pupils , staff and parents to send to Parliament as part of our Refugee campaign

We had great fun raising money for Children in Need.