St Mary’s is a Rights Respecting School
WELL DONE to our Rights Respecting Steering Group!! We have achieved Gold.
What is the Rights Respecting Schools Award?
This is an award given to schools on behalf of UNICEF. In 1989 governments adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The rights in the Convention are based upon needs that all children have in order to survive, grow, participate and fulfil their potential. Achieving the Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) means putting the rights and responsibilities of children at the heart of the school’s planning, policies, practice, ethos and vision. A Rights Respecting school teaches and models rights and respect in all its practice. It also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between teachers/adults and pupils, between adults, and between pupils.
There are 42 child-specific articles in the UNCRC, but they can be summed up as follows:
- The right to a childhood
- The right to an education
- The right to be healthy
- The right to be treated fairly
- The right to a voice.
We will, of course, keep you updated as we progress through the project.