Part of McCready Family Centre’s vision is to become a Rights Respecting School (RRS) We have recently achieved Bronze level, which is Rights Committed. This means that we are striving to ensure Children’s Rights are fully embedded in our practice and our children are aware what their rights are.
We would like to thank all our staff, children and families for all their contributions in helping us to achieve Bronze.
We are looking forward to the next stage – Silver – Teaching and Learning THROUGH Rights. This takes into account our Ethos and Relationships. We will continue to keep you fully informed of our progress and will also ask for your views and include you in specific activities with the children.
Please click on the links below to view our Bronze, Silver and Gold awards. You will see our current Gold logo on all our paperwork.
Thank you
Bronze achieved 18th February 2022
Our Silver Award was achieved on 25th October 2023.
We continue to build a Rights Respecting culture and ensure the principles are fully embedded into our practice, which enable the children to continue to be empowered and equipped with the knowledge, confidence and skills to advocate their rights. All staff have participated in training relating to the ABCDE of rights and all staff have a clear vision to achieve Gold.
Our children engage in various experiences that enables them to link learning to the articles within United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and are able to identify and articulate they have the right to be safe, healthy, have the right to play and have the right to make choices. Our highly skilled and knowledgeable practitioners promote inclusion and consult our children on many aspects of the nursery in terms of planning, developing learning spaces, story and rhyme of the month and more recently, developing and redesigning our outdoor garden space. Where children are non-verbal, visuals are used for the children to make choices. This has ensured we promote inclusion where no child is discriminated against and it has also enabled all children to feel included, respected and valued and have ownership of their spaces.
We achieved our Gold Award on 3rd June 2024. We are very unique in terms of achieving Silver and Gold in the same school year. This is a result of our commitment and drive to ensure children’s rights are fully embedded into our practice.
Home Learning Bags with activities relating to the articles are sent home in order for parents and families to learn together. This begins at the home visit, which has ensured families are aware we are advocates for children’s rights. Moreover, families are well informed of the articles within UNCRC and the guiding principles of article 2 – Non-discrimination, article 3 – Bests interest of the child, Article 6 – Right to life, survival and development and article 12 – Right to a voice from the onset and the activities relating to the articles have given the children and families a better understanding of how to empower the children on what their rights are. Given that the UNCRC is enshrined in Scottish Law, families now understand their responsibility as a Duty Bearer to empower their child on what their rights are and what they can do to enable their child to understand more fully.
