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Rights Respecting Schools Award
We were extremely pleased to be one of only nine schools in the whole of Kent to have achieved the Rights Respecting Gold Award!
Achieving the gold award means there is evidence that:
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Your school has explicitly adopted a child rights approach based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and has embedded it in school policy, practice and culture.
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Children, young people and adults in your school have a thorough understanding of child rights, and rights respecting attitudes and language are embedded across the school.
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The Rights Respecting Schools Award 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.
Children and young people also play an increasingly leading role in driving progress. At gold level, you are aiming to intensify and broaden:
- Teaching and learning about rights for the whole school community through training, curriculum, assemblies, topics, focus days/weeks, displays.
- Teaching and learning through rights by modelling rights-respecting language and attitudes and making strategic decisions that involve students.
- Being ambassadors for the rights of others, developing as rights-respecting citizens.
You can see our accreditation report here.
Introducing our rights respecting ambasadors:
Year 3
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Kit Evie Luca
Year 4
Primrose Lexi
Year 5
Year 6
Eloise Israel Zara Harry
See further information:
https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/the-rrsa/awarded-schools/
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Accredited Rights Respecting Schools in the UK - UNICEF UK Find out how many schools are involved in the Rights Respecting Schools Award, and how many have been accredited with Silver: Rights Aware and Gold: Rights Respecting. |
The Rights Respecting Schools Award programme supports schools to embed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in their practice to improve well-being and help all children realise their potential.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out the human rights of every person under the age of 18. The Convention is an international human rights treaty which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1989 and ratified by the UK in 1991.
Here are the Rights
The Unicef UK Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) supports schools across the UK to embed children’s human rights in their ethos and culture. Schools can achieve a special award. The award recognises achievement in putting the UN Convention on the Right of the Child (UNCRC) at the heart of a school’s practice to improve well-being and help all children realise their potential.
The award is based on principles of equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation. The initiative started in 2006 and schools involved in the Award have reported a positive impact on relationships and well-being, leading to better learning and behaviour, improved academic standards and less bullying. The Award is aimed at schools across the UK.
Schools involved in the Rights Respecting Schools Award work towards recognition that they have embedded children’s rights in their school’s practice and ethos. Schools are required to implement four evidence-based standards that cover:
- the leadership of the school,
- knowledge and understanding of children’s rights,
- ethos and relationships,
- the empowerment of children.
RRSA consists of three awards:
- Recognition of Commitment (Bronze award)
- Stage 1 (Silver Award)
- Stage 2 (Gold award)
