1. St Mary’s PS Dunsford The Path to the ‘Rights Respecting School Award’.

2. St Mary’s PS, Dunsford St Mary’s PS, Dunsford What is a ‘Rights Respecting School’?  A school where everybody looks after each other.  Children look after children  Adults look after children  Adults look after adults  Children look after adults.

3. St Mary’s PS Dunsford Where does the award come from? Where does the award come from?  Unicef  Convention on the Rights of the Child  Lots of schools have it or are working towards it.  We think our school is good enough!

4. St Mary’s PS Dunsford St Mary’s PS Dunsford Where are we now?  School Council.  ECO Council.  Safe home time.  Clean, happy safe school.  Children are happy.  Teachers ask us about what we think about our work.  We think of others eg Trocaire, Macmillan Cancer, St Vincent de Paul.

5. St Mary’s PS Dunsford How do we get there? How do we get there?  There are 53 articles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Step 1 – Recognition of Commitment.  Step 2 – Level 1  Step 3 – Level 2

6. St Mary’s PS Dunsford St Mary’s PS Dunsford  Where do we want to go?  We have established a steering group  We have been asked questions  We have to make an Action Plan  We will make Class charters  We will let you know how we are getting on.  At the end of this we will achieve Level 1.

7. St Mary’s PS Dunsford St Mary’s PS Dunsford  Now that we have told you all about it we can get the Recognition of Commitment Recognition of Commitment