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Ofsted Inspection Nov 2007
UNICEF 'Rights, Respect & Responsbility' Conference
On 10 November 2009 seven schools in West Horsham held a mini conference at Tanbridge House school to share their ideas on ‘Rights, Respect and Responsibility’ (Triple ‘R’).
The West Horsham Schools, including Tanbridge House, Arunside, Shelley, Southwater Juniors, Castlewood, St Mary’s and visitors St. Andrews from Nuthurst, joined in with a variety of activities, designed to help them understand about children’s universal rights and the responsibilities that go alongside these.
All the schools have now established agreed charters of Rights and Responsibilities in place of their school rules. Children as young as 5 and as old as 16 are now using these charters to help establish a rights, respecting ethos and achieve the level 1 UNICEF, ‘Rights, Respecting School’ award. Trafalgar School in Horsham should be congratulated as they have already met the criteria and achieved level 1 in July, other schools in the West Horsham pilot hope follow in their footsteps to gain this prestigious award in the near future.
Sally Hawes from Tanbridge House, coordinator of the conference said, ‘It was inspiring to observe the students from Year 5 working in teams with our students in Year 9. By combining ideas from different age groups the children were able to develop their skills, opinions and self-confidence. It was a very worthwhile conference and one which we hope to repeat on a much grander scale next time!’.