Rights Respecting Schools

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
Logo for UNICEF's Rights Respecting Schools programme, displayed in blue, indicating the Gold level status for the period 2025-2028 in the United Kingdom.

Further information on the Award and the UNCRC is available at

https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools
https://www.unicef.org.uk/what-we-do/un-convention-child-rights

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.