Working Towards

Inform the whole school community. Display your RRSA Bronze logo and certificate, hold an assembly, and send out a letter to parents and guardians to let them know.

This training focuses on developing your understanding of the CRC and children’s rights, providing ideas and resources to explore key elements of the Outcomes framework and prepare for Silver accreditation. 

Download and complete the Silver Accreditation Booking form to agree a provisional date for your visit with your Professional Adviser. You will have been given an estimated timescale for accreditation in your Bronze confirmation email.  We expect schools to take a maximum of 2 years to progress from Bronze to Silver. 

Implement the Plan for Silver as outlined in your Bronze Application form. Adapt the plan as necessary during its progression; for example, additional actions or ideas may arise from Achieving Silver training. Hold regular meetings with the steering group to ensure their engagement and participation in the delivery of the plan.  

Check out our Achieving the Outcomes, SEN, Early Years and Secondary guidance for further ideas.   

Staff will be building their confidence  to know what it means to teach and learn ABOUT rights, THROUGH rights and FOR rights. They will be starting to link articles to lessons and be referencing them in discussion.  Encourage colleagues to share good practice and use staff meeting time to gather information about how the Convention is being promoted  across school.  This will provide useful evidence for your evaluation form.    

Remember we have a created a range of Spotlight CPD resources that can be used in school.  

Start to complete the School Evaluation: Silver with support from your Steering Group and colleagues.   

In doing this identify: 

• How each of the 9 outcomes has been achieved? 

• What difference has been made? 

• What evidence do you have? 

You will need to submit this evaluation form at least two weeks before your Silver Accreditation visit. 

As you identify evidence in your evaluation form, start to populate your evidence PowerPoint. Evidence might include curriculum planning, policies, pupils’ work and assemblies so that you have an overview of the learning that is taking place and its impact. Survey findings, data and pupil, staff and parent feedback may also be useful. Please remember that we only ask for 2-3 pieces of evidence per outcome.  

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 growing 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 Silver accreditation. 

Find the RRSA Pupil and Staff Questionnaire Guidance and the RRSA Questionnaire Findings Form on the  Silver Forms and Guides section.