Rights Respecting Schools Award
We are delighted to announce that we have now been awarded GOLD: Rights Respecting accreditation of UNICEF's Rights Respecting Schools Award. Our accreditation visit took place on Monday 20th May 2024, when a Professional Advisor from UNICEF visited the school to talk to both pupils, teachers and parents.
Achieving GOLD: Rights Respecting means there is evidence that:
- Our school has explicitly adopted a child rights approach based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and has embedded it in school policy, practice and culture.
- Children, young people and adults in Baljaffray have a thorough understanding of child rights, and rights respecting attitudes and language are embedded across the school.
- RRSA has had a positive impact on children and young people’s learning and wellbeing.
- Pupils see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and are advocates for social justice, fairness and children’s rights at home and abroad.
Children and young people also play an increasingly leading role in driving progress.
At GOLD: Rights Respecting, we are aiming to intensify and broaden:
- Teaching and Learning about rights: for the whole school community through training, curriculum, assemblies, topics, focus days/weeks, displays.
- Teaching and Learning through rights: by modelling rights respecting language and attitudes and making strategic decisions that involve students.
- Being ambassadors for the rights of others: developing as rights respecting citizens.
The full accreditation report can be found below:
Read our Gold Accreditation Report 2024.
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