Rights Respecting Schools

We are working towards becoming a Rights Respecting School and we would like to give you some information about what this means. We have achieved our Silver award and we are now working towards our Gold award. 

To achieve the Gold award we need to continue to be able to show that we are working towards and achieving the three strands which are: 

• Teaching and Learning about Rights 
• Teaching and Learning through Rights (Ethos & Relationships) 
• Teaching and Learning for Rights (Participation, Empowerment & Action) 

Alongside this we also need to be able to show:

• That we explicitly adopt a child rights approach based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and embed it in school policy, practice and culture.
• Children, young people and adults in our school have a thorough understanding of child rights, and rights respecting attitudes and language are embedded across the school.
• RRSA has had a positive impact on children and young people’s learning and wellbeing.
• Students see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and are advocates for social justice, fairness and children’s rights at home and abroad.

The Unicef UK Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) supports schools across the UK to embed children’s rights in their ethos and culture. 

The award is based on principles of equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation. It recognises achievement in putting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s practice to improve well-being and help all children realise their potential. A rights-respecting school is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. 

We already do a huge amount of work which encompasses these rights but we will be teaching the children more explicitly about the different articles in the UN Convention. This will be achieved through their lessons, assemblies and RRSA sessions/ day. The children will learn about and understand their rights with a view to improving behaviour, relationships and wellbeing.

For more information: 

RRSA 

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

A summary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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