We are proud to be a Bronze award school and are working to achieve the Silver award. 
What is the UNCRC?
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is based on an analysis of what children need in order to thrive.
These needs can be grouped into four categories:
- To survive as a fit and healthy person
- To be protected from harm and abuse
- To develop physically, mentally and socially
- To participate as an active citizen
UNICEF UK believes that the principles and values of the CRC should be embedded in the ethos and curriculum of every school. This is the purpose of the Rights Respecting School Award.
UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA) provides a framework to help schools to use CRC as the basis for their ethos. In a rights respecting school, children learn about their rights and the responsibilities that are implied. Children learn to associate rights with needs and distinguish between their rights and ‘wants’. They learn that if they have rights, they need to respect the rights of others.
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, UNICEF week and RRSA sessions/days. The children will learn about and understand their rights with a view to improving behaviour, relationships and wellbeing.
For more information:
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
A summary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Our display sharing new Articles as they are introduced in our whole school assemblies.