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• Rights Respecting Silver Award assessment

  Fri 27 Apr 2018 Mrs Cox-Wall

  We were visited by Kath from UNICEF today to assess The Bridge for the Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award. This  assessment involves providing evidence across 4 RRS standards and meetings with parents, pupils, teachers, support staff and senior staff to understand our Rights journey.

  We are awaiting confirmation that we have met and exceeded the required standard and will keep you posted.

  We believe in listening to, respecting and acting upon the views of our pupils, in upholding their rights and supporting them should their rights not be met elsewhere in their lives.

  Our pupils particularly impressed Kath, they described the Bridge as "safe", "supportive", "positive" and said that they were "treated with respect."

  Our thanks for providing the leadership on this and the hard work that underpins such a prestigious award go to Virginia Richards (Leader of Ty Llidiard), Mary Morriss (Teacher) and Emily Medway (Support Officer). Well done!

  

• Children's Commissioner Visit

  Mon 23 Apr 2018 Mrs Cox-Wall

  Today we welcomed the Children's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland and Jane Houston, Participation Officer to the Bridge as part of her consultation work with learners about their rights.

  The Bridge is a Rights Respecting School and our staff (Mrs Morris, Virginia Richards, Emily Medway) spoke to Sally about the impact of RRS on the improvement  journey of the Bridge as a PRU and how learner voice has influenced our development.

  We were joined by the Director Lindsay Harvey, Group Manager Michelle Hatcher and Andrew Slade Chair of the Management Committee, all of whom have supported our RRS journey in their respective roles.

  Sally was keen to ask learners through a series of workshop activities which rights, in their view, are most important and where there may be barriers. Our learners from KS3 and 4 showed great emotional intelligence and insight, sharing some personal and global examples of children's rights not being upheld and how they felt about it. The learners were able to reflect on their own and shared experiences and what they had learned from them that could help others - discrimination and difference, plus timely access to services and support were the main themes.

  The group were also able to give Sally some ideas about aspects of rights that could be further developed for her to use when planning her future work and engagement with Welsh Government.

  

• Seaside News April edition

  Wed 04 Apr 2018 Y10/11 News Team

  This is our first time contributing to the Seaside News. We would like to share the many events happening here at The Bridge. Our school is an Alternative Provision which provides education for children who struggle attending mainstream school.

  This term, we have been focusing on being a Rights Respecting School (RRS). We are currently working towards the Silver Award. In April, we are expecting a visit from the Children’s Commissioner for Wales (Sally Holland), she is going to be talking about her role of working with young people. Some of our year 11s recently joined in a webinar organised by Sally where they discussed the many issues around Islamophobia.

  A short while ago, we were nominated for the green token appeal in Asda. Thanks to the generosity of the local community we received the most tokens and were awarded £500. The money is being used to renovate our common rooms.

  We would also like to mention our year 11 pupils who are currently working hard and revising for their GCSE exams. We wish them all the best of luck.