{"id":3417,"date":"2025-06-18T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/?page_id=3417"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:12:47","slug":"rights-respecting-school-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/?page_id=3417","title":{"rendered":"Rights Respecting School Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3428 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/uploads\/sites\/11290\/2025\/06\/18141136\/uncrc-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"UN Rights of a Child poster\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/uploads\/sites\/11290\/2025\/06\/18141136\/uncrc-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/uploads\/sites\/11290\/2025\/06\/18141136\/uncrc.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>At St Thomas Aquinas, working with UNICEF UK, we have started our journey to become a <strong>Rights Respecting School<\/strong>.\u00a0 UNICEF is the world\u2019s leading organisation that works for and promotes children\u2019s rights.\u00a0 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an important agreement made by governments worldwide to uphold and protect children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We&#039;ve All Got Rights\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LN_70HXxd5Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Rights Respecting School is a school where children and young people\u2019s rights are respected, promoted and protected by everyone.<br \/>\nThe Rights Respecting School Award involves staff and young people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Teaching and learning: ABOUT<\/strong> the rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teaching and learning: THROUGH<\/strong> rights so that everyone respects the rights of others.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teaching and learning: FOR<\/strong> the rights of others so that we stand up for rights and help make our school, our local and global community a fairer place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rights of the Child animation\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KQGz-toMnk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>\nOur Progress So Far:<\/h3>\n<p>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 \u2018Article of the Week\u2019, take a look at some of them on the UNCR website.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Convention on the Rights of the Child Explainer\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WO_yAe1RqXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At St Thomas Aquinas, working with UNICEF UK, we have started our journey to become a Rights Respecting School.\u00a0 UNICEF is the world\u2019s leading organisation that works for and promotes children\u2019s rights.\u00a0 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an important agreement made by governments worldwide to uphold and protect children\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28185,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3417","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3417\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stthomasaquinassecondaryschoolglasgow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}