Working Towards
Gold: Rights Respecting
These are the steps we recommend you take towards Gold: Rights Respecting.
We appreciate each school is different and our Professional Advisers will take your school context into account. The Gold: Rights Respecting accreditation is valid for three years.
Inform the whole school community. You can display your Silver: Rights Aware banner, certificate and logo, hold an event or assembly, and use your school newsletter and social media to let families know. Think about sharing your report with your Local Authority and other external partners.
How is your group supporting progress to Gold? Are they engaged in your Gold action planning (use your recommendations from Gold to support this). Are they aware of the Gold Strand and Outcome Descriptors?
Read more about Outcome Descriptors at Gold and check out our Steering Group Guidance.
Adults and your steering group should know that the Strands and Outcome Descriptors at Gold are different from the Strands and Outcome Descriptors at Silver. How are you going to deepen what it means to teach and learn ABOUT rights, THROUGH rights and FOR rights at Gold?
Use our Achieving the RRSA Outcomes page and Spotlight CPD packs to help you.
Complete the Gold Accreditation Booking Form and send to your Professional Advisor.
We recommend booking your visit at least a term in advance to allow you time to prepare and complete the necessary paperwork.
Gather information about how the Convention is taught and learnt in lessons and assemblies so that you have an overview of the learning that is taking place and its impact.
Evidence might include planning, policies, pupils’ work and assemblies so that you have an overview of the learning that is taking place and its impact. Keep the Gold Outcome Descriptors in mind. Begin to compile your evidence portfolio required for your Gold visit. For more information and to download the PowerPoint template check out the Gold Forms and Guides section.
It is useful to carry out pupil and staff questionnaires so that you have an overview of their current knowledge and understanding of children’s rights and the impact of adopting a child rights approach in school. This is compulsory for London schools, to help us to report on the impact of the large scale uptake of RRSA.
The RRSA Pupil and Staff Questionnaire Guidance explains how to administer the questionnaires digitally. Please transfer the data to the RRSA Questionnaire Findings Form and upload this with your other documentation for Gold accreditation.
Find the RRSA Pupil and Staff Questionnaire Guidance and the RRSA Questionnaire Findings Form on the Gold Forms and Guides section.
Complete the School Evaluation: Gold form to check you are ready for your accreditation visit. Identify:
- How has the outcome been achieved?
- What difference has been made?
- What evidence do you have?
The form is to be completed by senior leaders. You may include feedback from staff and pupil questionnaires, reports from your school inspection body, comments from parents, etc.
