Rights Respecting School
The Rights Respecting Schools Award
The Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Award improves the lives of children in the UK by taking a whole school approach to putting children’s rights at the heart of school policy and practice
Children and young people are empowered to make informed decisions and to grow into confident, active, global, responsible citizens
The RRSA is based on principles of:
Equality
Dignity
Respect
Non-discrimination
Participation
Rights are …
UNIVERSAL - for all children, everywhere, all of the time
INHERENT – people have rights simply by nature of being human. Rights are there at birth.
INALIENABLE – they cannot be taken away.
UNCONDITIONAL – rights do not have to be earned. They are not a reward and not dependent on a responsibility.
INDIVISIBLE – all rights are connected and equally important.
https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/
There are 3 levels to the award
BRONZE - Rights Committed
SILVER - Rights Aware
GOLD - Rights Respecting
We are currently a SILVER - rights aware school. This means there is evidence in Lancasterian that:
Our school is explicitly embedding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in its policy, practice and culture.
We are promoting knowledge and understanding of the Convention throughout our school community.
We are putting into action and developing the plans outlined on our Action Plan for Silver
We are beginning to see the positive impact of these actions on children and young people, staff, and on the school’s ethos, practice and environment.
Children and young people are beginning to see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and advocates for fairness and children’s rights, both locally and globally.
We believe children's rights should be embedded in our everyday practise. As a result, we thread this approach through all our curriculum pathways as well as discussing, celebrating and promoting pupil rights discretely.
We have also explored our rights and promoted specific articles through special celebration days in school i.e. Harvest Festival, Internet Safety Day, International Women's Day and LGBTQ+ History month. To see what we got up to or find out more about our RRS journey search #RightsRespectingSchool or #UNCRC on our Twitter page: @LancasterianS or take a look at our FaceBook page.
Here are some of our class charters:
If you want to find out more about Rights Respecting Schools, check out these links:
A welcome: https://youtu.be/QBGA3FmoUJ0
What are the Rights of the Child? https://youtu.be/COjVj9czgrY
Talking about being Rights Respecting at School: https://youtu.be/1DOPyjKSUxo
'We've all got Rights' song: https://youtu.be/LN_70HXxd5Y