Lift Percy Shurmer

Rights respecting schools award

We are a Unicef Rights Respecting School and are currently working towards the gold award. A Rights Respecting School is a school that embeds the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in their ethos and culture to improve well being and help all children realise their full potential.

What is the UNCRC?

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was adopted in 1989 by governments across the world, who agreed that all children have the same rights. The UNCRC has 54 articles that are based on what a child needs to survive, grow, participate and fulfil their potential.

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What is the Rights Respecting Schools Award? (RRSA)

The Rights Respecting Schools Award recognises a school’s achievement in putting the UNCRC into practice within the school.

There are three levels to the award:

Bronze: Rights Committed

Silver: Rights Aware

Gold: Rights Respecting

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How are we a Rights Respecting School?

Children’s rights play a huge part in the daily life of Lift Percy Shurmer. Everyday, children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, protected and promoted by learning about rights, through rights and for rights. Here are some of the ways that we have adopted the UNCRC at our school:

Children’s rights are displayed across the school and the children are very familiar with a great number of these. During lessons and class assemblies, children discuss how children’s rights are being respected or denied, linked to what they are learning.
Every week, during assembly, we celebrate our Rights Respecting pupils and staff of the week.
Every year, each class creates a class charter. The children choose the rights that they feel are most important to them and decide on the actions that both the rights holders (children) and duty bearers (adults) in the class should take to show how they will respect these rights.
The Junior Leadership Team act as our UNICEF ambassadors, who work hard to help others in the school learn about the important work of UNICEF.
Children across the school take part in Outright projects to help them realise their own rights and speak out in support of the rights of all children.

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How can I help my child at home?

Talk to your child about their rights.
Discuss the Article of the Week with your child, which can be found on the school newsletter or on the website. Have a go at some of the activities together on the PowerPoint.
Ask your child what they have learned recently about children’s rights or discuss how children’s rights are being respected or denied in the media.

If you would like to be involved with or find out more about our journey to becoming a Gold certified Rights Respecting School, please speak to Miss Giovannone.

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