On Wednesday 9th February 2022, our school Student Ambassadors (Alice, James and Bron) attended a Q and A session with Sally Holland the Children’s Commissioner for Wales. They discussed the future of Children’s rights in education and gave their views on how they felt it could be best implemented in their schools. Inform other pupils […]
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It’s been another busy term for the Vale Rights Ambassadors. Members were able to deliver some primary school workshops at the start of the term to three primary schools raising awareness of the UNCRC. Members also had the opportunity to visit a Brownie unit in Penarth to help the girls learn about their Rights and […]
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Pupils from Cowbridge School Council had a meeting with Sally Holland, the Children’s Commissioner for Wales before they broke up for the summer holidays. , The video produced showcasing some of the school council’s work was was shown to other schools present at the meeting on ZOOM. The video was created by Little Voices, as part of […]
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This half term Vale Rights Ambassadors have continued to meet digitally via Microsoft Teams, giving members the opportunity to keep in touch and informed about children’s rights. The group has met on three different occasions with our last catch up during the half term break. One of our Rights Ambassadors was given the opportunity to […]
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Student Ambassadors at St Cyres School have been busy updating their understanding about the United Nations Convention on Children’s Rights, and welcoming new members to the Student Ambassadors Scheme. They have taken part in training provided by Alexandra Thomas, Rights Ambassador Project Worker. A very enjoyable and productive session especially in these unprecedented times! We […]
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The Vale Rights Ambassadors have been busy over the last two months, so we wanted to share an update on their recent work. We’ve been meeting regularly through Microsoft Teams. Using the opportunity to plan and develop a children’s rights video; planning a Q&A evening with the Children’s Commissioner for Wales; as well as working […]
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Rights Ambassadors were able to meet digitally for the first time earlier this month. Due to Covid 19 we have been unable to run our Community Ambassador sessions feeding into the work of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales. It was great to have the opportunity to get together existing members as well as new members […]
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Vale Rights Ambassadors Project: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this year, the Vale Youth Service and the Rights Ambassadors project were unable to organise their annual presentation evening, celebrating young people’s success. Instead we organised doorstep presentations at the beginning of July, ensuring that the achievements of young people from across the Vale of Glamorgan […]
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For this month’s challenge our Vale Rights Ambassadors linked in with Sally Holland’s the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, Right of the Month. The work our members produced was based on Article 27 of the UNCRC, which states you have “The Right to a Good Standard of Living.” Our members found a creative way to design […]
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Pupils at Pencoedtre High school have set up a recycled school uniform shop. They are recycling lost property and selling uniform very cheap at a parent events in the school. This will feed into the Children’s Commissioner for Wales mission the Revolve Project. More information can be found here.
18 young people from across the Vale of Glamorgan have completed a Level 1 UNCRC accreditation. The 8 week course started back in November and focused on the history of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, its importance and how it affects children and young people in Wales. The course enables […]
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Today at student council we split up into student sub committees to plan how what we want to work on. As the school’s Student Ambassador group we have decided that we would like to create a presentation to give to year 7 on our next PSE day in order to widen their knowledge on Children’s Rights. We also discussed […]
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