Silver: Rights Aware

Silver: Rights Aware is the second stage of the Rights Respecting Schools Award.

Your Silver action plan supports progress towards embedding children’s rights across your school’s ethos and practice.  As you implement these actions, awareness and understanding of rights will grow and develop across your school community.    

To achieve Silver, one of our RRSA assessors will carry out a virtual visit to your school to discuss and explore your progress towards the Silver outcomes. 

Your Silver accreditation is valid for three years. Schools can often achieve Gold: Rights Respecting after a further 18 months to 3 years, or may choose to reaccredit at Silver: Rights Aware. 

Progress towards Silver will work slightly differently in each school. What you are aiming for is that you are meeting the Silver descriptors for the nine Outcomes across the three strands:

1. Teaching and Learning about rights: for the whole school community through training, curriculum, assemblies, topics, focus days/weeks, displays.
2. Teaching and Learning through rights: by modelling rights respecting language and attitudes, and making strategic decisions that involve students.
3. Being ambassadors for the rights of others: developing as rights respecting citizens.

Our Achieving Silver training course and e-Learning provide opportunities to gather practical ideas on implementing children’s rights in school. You can also discuss Silver accreditation with others through our Silver Accreditation Workshop which runs every term. See the Training section for more information.