Unicef

Rights Respecting School Award

On the 20th November 1989 the world made a set of promises for every child on earth. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international statement of all of those promises.

UNICEF protects and promotes those rights and the Rights Respecting Schools Award seeks to put the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s ethos and culture to make sure that every child is healthy, educated, treated fairly and listened to. They also make sure that all children are protected from violence, abuse and exploitation.

The Award recognises achievement in incorporating the Convention into a school’s planning, policies and practice. A Rights Respecting School teaches child rights and models rights and respect in all its relationships between adults and children, between children themselves, and between adults themselves. 

Being a Rights Respecting school has become part of our everyday school life and we are proud to have achieved our Silver Award in October 2021. You can find out more about the award and work of UNICEF on their website by clicking here. 

 

Classroom Charters

As part of our commitment to being a Rights Respecting School, we designed and created our own classroom charters.

After discussing all of the articles, we pick those which were most important to us. Each class then created their own charter based on the rights of a child and how we, as responsible citizens, can respect those rights. Both staff and children understand their roles in following the charters and have all signed them in agreement.

Our School Charter is an agreement between children and adults in our school. They are shared values and principles based on the CRC. The children chose UNCRC articles which they felt was important to us. We then have agreed actions between all of the children and adults to ensure the rights can be realised and enjoyed by everyone.

 

RRSA Committee
 

 

We are the Unicef committee and we care about your rights. We are made up of representatives from Year 2 – 6. We want to help make sure you are treated well and given accurate information about your rights.

We hold weekly meetings with Miss S. Khatun where we discuss sharing the rights, share questions from others and plan and perform our Unicef assemblies.

If you have any suggestions, questions or queries about Unicef and your rights please come and find us. We will be more than happy to help as best we can.