What is the UNRC/RRS?
UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting Schools programme helps schools to use the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) to help develop a clear set of values that are actively upheld by pupils. These rights are set out to help children develop to their full potential, knowing that all children have the same rights no matter what their background or where they live.
In total there are 54 rights, which are called articles. A child friendly version of these can be found in the image below. There is also a Pocket Book that can be downloaded for more information.
At James Hamilton Primary and Sgoil na Coille Nuaidh we want everyone to understand the importance of rights. Our goal is that we respect our own rights and do our best to always respect other people’s rights.
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What is a Rights Respecting School?
The video below was created by UNICEF and details what it means to be a rights respecting school.
Our journey to being a Rights Respecting School
Currently we have achieved our Bronze Award for being a ‘Rights Committed’ school and we are on our journey to becoming a Silver ‘Rights Aware’ school by the end of 2023.
