Rights Respecting Schools

Logo for Rights Respecting Schools program awarded by UNICEF, indicating Gold level certification for the years 2025 to 2028.

What is Rights Respecting Schools?

  • Teaching and Learning about rights – through training, curriculum, assemblies
  • Teaching and learning through rights – by modelling rights respecting language and attitudes
  • Being ambassadors for the rights of others – developing as rights respecting citizens

Further information on the Award and the UNCRC is available at –

https://www.cypcs.org.uk/rights/uncrcarticles

What do the Rights Respecters do?

  • Promote children’s rights across the school
  • Create and follow a plan to achieve the Rights Respecting Schools Award
  • Lead gatherings and assemblies which have a focus on children’s rights
  • Monitor the progress of promoting children’s rights
  • Share the links between our Rights Respecting work, our Building Resilience programme, our ECO team’s focus and our Pupil Voice Committees  work in developing Global Goals.