Congratulations to all our stakeholders on this fantastic achievement.  The award demonstrates our commitment to promoting and realising children’s rights and encouraging adults, children and young people to respect the rights of others in school and the wider community.

The Rights Respecting Schools Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children’s rights and encouraging adults, children and young people to respect the rights of others in school. 

A Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.

Gold is the highest accolade given by UNICEF UK and shows a deep and thorough commitment to children’s rights at all levels of school life. Gold is for schools that create safe and inspiring places to learn, where children are respected, their talents are nurtured, and they are able to thrive. Our Rights Respecting Schools Award embeds these values in daily school life and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives and to be responsible, active citizens.  

The Award recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s planning, policies and practice. A Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.

The assessment team were keen to highlight the following strengths of both academies:

• Students confidently discuss a range of rights and why they are important and relevant to their lives.  

• Highly effective leadership of the rights related work at all levels, including from young people.

• Planned links to relevant articles are embedded across the curriculum in a way that enriches the learning for all students.  

• A passionate commitment to children’s rights from all duty bearers ensures the Convention is evident in all aspects of school life.  

• An ethos that successfully promotes a highly inclusive culture with positive relationships, based on mutual respect and trust, at the heart of school life.  

• The effective pastoral care system and support for wellbeing through which students feel very well nurtured, supported and enabled to learn.

Students, staff and families should be rightly proud of this.

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