Rights and Respecting School
The Rights and Respecting School approach promotes our courageous advocacy by empowering pupils to understand their rights and the rights of others, encouraging them to speak up and take action for justice and equality. Through promoting the values of respect, kindness, and empathy, pupils learn to advocate for the rights of themselves and others, fostering a sense of social responsibility and nurturing their moral compass.
This approach also enables pupils to flourish and develop spiritually by instilling values of fairness, inclusivity, and compassion. By learning about and respecting the rights of all individuals, pupils develop a deeper understanding of human dignity and the interconnectedness of humanity. This fosters a sense of belonging and empathy, allowing them to develop spiritually by embracing values that align with their own beliefs and nurturing a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives.
The Rights and Respecting School approach provides opportunities for pupils to explore global issues, diverse perspectives, and social justice topics, fostering critical thinking, empathy, and a sense of agency. Pupils are encouraged to take positive action, both within their school community and beyond, to create a more just and equitable world. This engagement in courageous advocacy not only promotes the flourishing of pupils as individuals but also cultivates their spiritual growth by connecting their beliefs and values with tangible actions that make a positive difference in the world.
Wow look at Reception's amazing vegetable garden. This will all be produced and harvested to support our local community.
UPDATE! Congratulations St Thomas's, you raised £379.22 for soccer aid with the support of Mr Hyde. Thank you so much.
Look at our amazing banner made by the craft club at St Thomas's church. What a beautiful piece of art made by our church. Thank you so much from all at St Thomas's. Article 14 - Every child has the right to think and believe what they want and to practise their religion, as long as they are not stopping other people from enjoying their rights.
St Thomas's supporting soccer aid. Updates to come on how much money we have raised. The money raised through Soccer Aid for UNICEF will help support the vital work of UNICEF. For example: £10 could help provide enough life-saving therapeutic food for a child for one week. £20 could provide life-saving measles vaccines for 28 children.
Look at our latest achievements.
Well done St Thomas's, you raised £172 from the cake sale. The St Thomas's Saviours decided to donate £100 to just.tree.life. This will enable them to plant 100 trees in various countries to help maintain a sustainable environment. The St Thomas's Saviours also went shopping with the remaining money and plan to build a vegetable garden in school and hopefully grow vegetables to share with our local community. Not only will this help with the cost of living, it will also reduce the carbon foot print.
The St Thomas's Saviours taught each class about duty bearers and right holders. The children enjoyed quizzes and activities and won prizes for being the most knowledgeable. The St Thomas's savours did a fantastic job!
Please come and support the St Thomas' Saviours. Next week there is a cake sale during every break time. For every £1 raised one tree will be planted. Thank you in advance for supporting us to campaign for a healthier environment for us all.
Wow what a fantastic start to the day. The St Thomas's Saviours gave out over 300 stickers and pencils to children who walk, cycled or scootered to school this morning. They really have started to make a difference.
Support the campaign to stop air pollution. Walk or cycle to school on the 16th February. Other fundraising will start next half term.
The St Thomas's Saviours presented an assembly to the whole school. They shared their plan for going for the gold award and ideas for campaigning.
Congratulation to Haris for winning the logo competition. Our steering group is now called 'St Thomas's Saviours' and we will now use this amazing logo as we work towards gaining the gold award.
We are so proud to announce that St Thomas's have been awarded the Silver award as a Rights Respecting school :)
We visited the amazing Ribble Warriors who have recently received the Rights Respecting silver award. We have come away with lots of ideas.
Please look at the articles with your children to support them.
St Thomas' Steering Group
Local MP Visit
Our Rights and Respecting Steering group invited a local MP, James Daily, into school. The children shared their action plan to support our local community. What a successful visit.
Community Clear up
Our amazing steering group cleaning up the community. They feel strongly about their rights to have adequate standard of living (Article 27) and to right to leisure and play in a safe environment (Article 31 ) The children also feel they have the right to their views being heard and respected.(Article 12). Please help them keep our community litter free.
Whole school singing. We really enjoy singing our Rights respecting song 'We are unstoppable a better world is possible' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9zdoBUuSBM
RRSA- We shared the article we have been learning about with the whole school. Some fantastic work St Thomas'. We even learnt some sign language as article 23 was looking at children with disabilities. What a fantastic thing to do.
St Thomas' Steering group delivered an amazing assembly to the whole school. The children are so excited to work on our silver award!
Rights and respecting activities and fundraising. What a great start we have made.
St Thomas' steering group
