What are the Rights Knights?
The Cleeves Rights Knights are our pupil leadership group who help make sure that children’s rights are understood, respected and put into action across our school.
They represent the voices of children throughout Cleeves Primary, gathering pupils’ views and helping turn their ideas into positive change. They lead campaigns and activities, contribute to assemblies and displays, and help everyone understand how rights are part of everyday school life.
Most importantly, our Rights Knights help make sure that every child knows their rights, can enjoy their rights and knows that their voice matters.
🏆 Going for Gold
Having achieved our Silver: Rights Aware Award, our Rights Knights are now helping to lead Cleeves on our journey towards the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Gold Award – Rights Respecting.
Our Rights Knights motto:
🛡️ Know your rights. Use your voice. Make a difference.
What is the UNCRC?
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is an international agreement that sets out the rights that every child and young person should have.
It contains 54 articles covering all aspects of a child’s life, including their rights to be safe, healthy, included, listened to and able to learn and develop.
These rights belong to every child, regardless of who they are, where they live, what they believe or what their family circumstances are.
At Cleeves Primary, the UNCRC is an important part of our school life. Children learn about their rights, through their rights and for their rights. This means that we don’t simply teach children what their rights are – we aim to make sure they experience these rights in their everyday life at school and are empowered to stand up for their own rights and the rights of others.
🗣️ Article 12 – The Right to be Heard
Article 12 is particularly important to our Rights Knights and our wider pupil leadership work. It says that children have the right to express their views about matters that affect them and for those views to be taken seriously.
Our Rights Knights help us put this right into practice by making sure pupil voice is heard, valued and leads to action.
Rights in Action at Cleeves
Meeting Agendas
