Rights Respecting Rangers
Rights Respecting Rangers play a key role in promoting children’s rights and building a positive, respectful school community. As ambassadors for the UNCRC, they help raise awareness of pupils’ rights and responsibilities, lead campaigns and assemblies, and encourage everyone to treat one another with dignity and fairness. The Rangers work closely with staff and peers to support whole-school initiatives, gather pupil voice, and ensure that every child feels valued, heard, and included. Through their leadership, they help create a safe, supportive environment where children’s rights are understood, celebrated, and embedded in everyday school life.
Rights Respecting Steering Group
Mrs. Grant – Head of school
Miss Griffiths – RRS Lead
Miss Wallace - RRS Lead
Mrs. Wilson – Well-being Lead
Learning Charters
All classes develop a learning charter at the start of the school term to promote a positive learning environment for everyone. Charters include the role of the rights holders and the duty bearers. At Stranton Primary School, the rights of the child underpin our school values and ethos of the school. Children start the school day by talking about our school values and how these link to the rights of the child. Children are also taught about rights through weekly, themed assemblies and a weekly reflection lesson to discuss the article of the week. Articles are linked to lessons throughout the day.
Steering Group Meetings
Our Rights Respecting Rangers attend fortnightly meetings with the RRS Leads to discuss initiatives, ideas and projects and to help support the community in Rights Respecting work.
School Mascot
This is our Rights Respecting School Mascot. We held a competition to design a mascot that would be on all displays around school. It was designed by a Year 4 pupil. It
represents that all children around the world have rights.
OUTRIGHT
The children took part in OUTRIGHT and this years theme was campaigning. They participated in their activities by thinking and creating posters that were given to school council with different ideas for us to campaign for. E.g. No smoking/vaping and more play equipment for the school.
Article 12 - Your right to a voice and to be heard.
Rights Respecting Events
March 2026
In March, the Rights Respecting Rangers completed another POL-ED session, where they explored relationships with friends. The children also learned about consent and permission, discussing different scenarios and how they would respond to them. They all did a fantastic job!
Article 19- All children have the right to feel safe.
January 2026
To start off the new year, the Rights Respecting Rangers welcomed Adam Guy, from the Hartlepool Food Partnership who spoke to the children about his role and how he helps families in the Town. He also kicked off the Healthy Eating Mascot Competition. The children spoke to the whole school about the importance of looking after our bodies as we grow.
Article 24- All children have the right to clean water and healthy food.
December 2025
Our Rights Respecting Rangers, who play an active role in the school’s Safeguarding Council, recently took part in a Keeping Safe – POL-ED workshop. This work contributes to the school’s ongoing involvement with the Local Authority’s Safeguarding in Education Sub-group.
During the session, the children explored a range of everyday scenarios and worked together to assess each one as low, medium, or high risk. They discussed what risk means, how they can recognise when a situation might be unsafe, and why it is important to pause and think before acting.
The Rangers also shared examples of times when they had faced potential risks in real life, reflecting thoughtfully on the steps they took—or could take—to keep themselves and others safe. Their insight, honesty, and maturity made the session engaging, purposeful, and enjoyable.
This work strengthens their role as ambassadors for children’s rights and safety across our school community.
Article 19- All children have the right to feel safe.
November 2025
This month, our Rights Respecting Rangers took part in a letter writing campaign to our cooks to ask for different types of desserts.
Article 12- All children have a right to a voice and to be listened to.
October 2025
Our Rights Respecting Rangers spread awareness about Black History Month. With an important message, Black History Month is about learning from the past and building a fairer future for everyone. We all have something special to give, no matter what we look like.
Article 2 – All children have rights, no matter their race or religion.
September 2025
We begin our year by making our class charters, ensuring children learn about rights, who their
duty bearers are and how children should be using their rights correctly.
Article 1- All children under the age of 18 have rights.
February 2025
We discussed Article 24 during our soft start to raise awareness in relation to our themed week of ‘Children’s Mental Health Week’.
January 2025
We launched our Rights Respecting Campaign ‘Teddy Rights’ who has been brought to Stranton to help children and parents better understand children’s rights.
Article 5 - Learn how to use your rights as you grow up.
Teddy Rights has had a lovely weekend with Eleanor ✨️
She has looked after him and kept him safe. 🧸 (Articles 19 and 20)
He has enjoyed a delicious Sunday dinner at nana and granda's house. (Article 27)
He had lots of fun at Jump 360. ❤️ (Article 31)
Poppy is taking Teddy Rights very seriously. He's relaxed on the balance board, had a snack, enjoyed playing with the girls and has even received a Headteacher Award for good balancing and listening very carefully. 🥰😍
December 2024
We discussed Article 4 and 41 in our weekly soft start to celebrate and spread awareness for ‘Human Rights Day’.
November 2024
The children took part in OUTRIGHT and this years theme was campaigning. They participated in their activities by thinking and creating posters that were given to school council with different ideas for us to campaign for. E.g. No smoking/vaping and more play equipment for the school.
Article 12 - Your right to a voice and to be heard.
October 2024
We discussed Article 2 and 30 in our weekly soft start ‘Article of the Week’ to show our support and raise awareness in support for Black History Month.
September 2024
The start of a new year means new class charters. All of our classes have worked as a team to discuss the articles, and which are the most important to them.
Article 2 - All children have these rights, no matter what.
June 2024
The whole school took part in careers day learning about different jobs that we might want to pursue in the future.
Article 28: Children have the right to an education.
April 2024
Eco Warriors have been improving the secret garden. They tidied the planters and planted a variety of fruit and vegetables.
Article 24: Children have the right to good health.
March 2024
In RE, Class 3 have been learning about the Hindu celebration of Raksha Bandhan. We made our own Rakhi bracelets to remind us that during this celebration siblings promise to protect each other.
Article 14: Children have the right to their own beliefs.
February 2024
As part of OUTRIGHT school council delivered an assembly on endangered animals around the world caused by climate change. We held a Wear it Wild Day in school to support this cause.
Article 24: Children have the right to good health.
January 2024
School Council led whole school assembly to introduce our new Junior Road Safety Officers. They talked about the importance of keeping safe in the winter and launched their first competition to design some clothing to help you be seen in the dark.
Article 19: Children have the right to be safe.
November 2022
We have appointed two Junior Road Safety Officers in school, Moosa and Zeynep. They will promote road safety messages in school and to the wider community and hold termly competitions. School Council introduced the Junior Road Safety Officers in assembly and talked about keeping safe in the dark.
Article 19: Children have the right to be safe.
October 2022
Today we supported 'Show Racism the Red Card' in school. We had a special visitor; a local policeman and football coach to lead our whole school assembly and talk about discrimination and racism.
Article 2: All children have rights regardless of their race, religion and ability.
March 2022
We celebrated World Book Day by coming to school dressed as our favourite book characters.
Article 28 – all children have the right to an education.
To help us to become Global Citizens we have taken part in the tin can challenge. Each class collected as many tin cans of food as possible and the class that collected the most won a treat for the whole class. School Council distributed the tins to people in our local community.
Class 3 enjoying their treat for collecting the most tin cans.
February
The children in Early Years enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year. They made dragons and money wallets. Their favourite part was tasting Chinese food.
Article 28: All children have a right to learn and go to school.
Article 14: All children have a right to follow their own religion.
Our KS2 children had a great time at our Cluster Dodgeball Tournament. They were a credit to the school and showed lots of commitment and sportsmanship.
Article 29 - Education should develop each child’s personality and talents to the full.
In January we received our new school banner to show that we are now a Gold Rights Respecting School.
November 2021
Year 2 have been learning all about Ocean Pollution as part of OUTRIGHT this week. They have made posters showing how we can help to ‘Save Our Seas.'
Article 24: All children have the right to a good health.
Year 4 have been discussing different ways to save energy for their OUTRIGHT topic.
Article 24: All children have the right to a good health.
Norman and Julie from our local Church delivered a whole school assembly talking about Children’s Rights to promote World Children’s Day.
Article 1: All children have rights.
The children in Early Years painted kindness stones to support anti-bullying week in school.
Article 31: All children have a right to not to be harmed ad should be looked after and kept safe.
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