At St Thomas Aquinas, working with UNICEF UK, we have started our journey to become a Rights Respecting School. UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation that works for and promotes children’s rights. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an important agreement made by governments worldwide to uphold and protect children’s rights.
A Rights Respecting School is a school where children and young people’s rights are respected, promoted and protected by everyone.
The Rights Respecting School Award involves staff and young people:
- Teaching and learning: ABOUT the rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Teaching and learning: THROUGH rights so that everyone respects the rights of others.
- Teaching and learning: FOR the rights of others so that we stand up for rights and help make our school, our local and global community a fairer place.
Our Progress So Far:
We are already underway with achieving our bronze Status! This entails staff working together to create plan that will be implemented next session. Senior Pupils have already received training on what these rights are and how we can demonstrate them in our school. As part of this we will be promoting an ‘Article of the Week’, take a look at some of them on the UNCR website.
