What is a Rights Respecting School?
A Rights Respecting Schools (RRS) puts the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) at the heart of its planning, policies, practice, and ethos.
A rights-respecting school not only teaches about children’s rights but also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between teachers/adults and pupils, between adults and between pupils.
The pupils learn about children’s rights during lessons, collective worship, assemblies, focus weeks, and special days.
The UNCRC
The UNCRC stands for United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The UNCRC is an International Agreement that protects the human rights of children.
All children have the same rights. All rights are interconnected and of equal importance. The Convention stresses these principles and the importance of children respecting the rights of others, especially their parents.
UNICEF’s mission is to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided in doing this by the provisions and principles of the principles of the UNCRC.For more information visit:
UNICEF and our school community
At St Anne’s, we strive to create a climate where Christian values are taught and experienced and where the Rights of the Child are respected.
We see the partnership that exists between school, parents and pupils as being central to each child’s development and their spiritual growth and flourishing.
We have attempted to present our expectations by using the language of the UNCRC and our home-school agreement seeks to clarify expectations for all of us.
It is only when we work together that each child will reach their potential.