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Rights Respecting School
Rights Respecting Steering Group
At Old Cleeve, we are currently working towards our Gold Accreditation for being a Rights Respecting School. We achieved our Silver status in June 2025.
We are proud to be part of the Rights Respecting School programme, as we want all children to know that they have these rights and that they have a voice.
'Old Cleeve's Rights Respecting Steering Group' meets fortnightly and is a group made up of adults and children. Our meetings are to discuss, plan and motivate everyone in being a Rights Respecting School. Our Steering Group attends many of our monitoring meetings including our Ethos Committee and AIB.
Our representatives are made up of children from Years 1 -4, with up to 3 members from each year group. The children apply to be part of the Steering Group at the beginning of the academic year. The children are responsible for ensuring that we are moving the school forward as being Rights Respecting. This is through examples such as creating our Whole School Charter, Playtime Charter and collecting pupil voices on key areas such as lunchtimes, subjects and how they feel about school. The children also present fortnightly assemblies called Article of the Week, where the children explain what they would like to the school to focus on for that particular week. Staff have regular training on being a Rights Respecting School through our Monthly Spotlights on RRSA.
Article 12 in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that 'all children have the right to an opinion, and for adults to listen and take these views seriously.' During steering group meetings, all contributions are mutual, and the children's ideas are valued just as much as the adults.
Children are responsible for passing information from Steering Group meetings to their classmates.
Please see the UNICEF leaflet which explains the different articles from the CRC Rights of the Child.
Rights Respecting Steering Committee - Adult Members
Miss Needs -Rights Respecting School Adviser
Mrs Aspden - Rights Respecting Human Resources
Mrs Bellamy - Rights Respecting Governor
Mrs Murch - Headteacher
Mr Wagemans - Rights Respecting Playtime Adviser
Fast Fashion Campaign
Steering Group have chosen for their global campaign to focus on the problems with Fast Fashion this year.
As part of their initiative, Steering Group have launched the Old Cleeve school 'Swap Shop' - we are accepting donations of clothes that individuals no longer want. We will then be opening our Swap Shops at the end of each month for pupils, parents and staff to either donate or pick up new clothes, completely free. Donations are always welcome and will support our goal to help Fashion Revolution and for our understanding on the Global Development Goals. Please see the poster below for our next Swap Shop date.
International School Award
Old Cleeve are proud to announce that we have been awarded our Foundation Level International School award. This award highlights our commitment to working as part of an international community. We are aiming to work towards the Intermediate level, which will help to promote collaboration with other schools across the globe and for our children to work internationally with schools on the Sustainable Development Goals, as part of a Rights Respecting school.