Rights Respecting - Horizons Specialist Academy Trust
Green Gates Academy is a 'Gold' Rights Respecting School
What is ‘’The Rights Respecting Schools Award”?
The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) at the heart of a school’s 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 pupils and adult, between adults and between pupils.
The UNICEF UK Rights Respecting School’s Award (RRSA) is based on principles of equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation.
The RRSA seeks to put the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s ethos and culture to improve well-being and develop every child’s talents and abilities to their full potential. A rights-respecting school is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. Young people and the school community learn about children’s rights by putting them into practice every day.
Green Gates Academy Continues to be
A Gold Standard Rights Respecting School
Pupil voice continues to drive decision making and school improvements, with the support of our amazing Student Council and Rights Respecting Ambassadors. Through our conversations discussing further playtime improvements, pupils discussed how they felt play wasn’t long enough and children didn’t get the chance to fully engage in play at lunchtime. Our School Prime Minister had a meeting with Mrs Lyons about this, who listened and decided to add 5 minutes per day (25 minutes a week!) of extra play for the children. This was a brilliant outcome!
Our Rights Respecting Ambassadors aimed to impress earlier in the term, when they discussed children’s rights with an important visitor during our Gold Reaccreditation on 14th February 2024 The pupils blew us away with their maturity and passion when talking about children’s rights and how we promote these at Green Gates.
Strengths Identified from the assessor:
- A strong commitment to the children’s rights from all..
- Natural links to relevant rights are fully embedded across the curriculum in a way that enriches the learning of all children
- A school with inclusion at its heart, where people feel safe and secure and can articulate the importance of knowing about children’s rights creating a caring and inclusive ethos where staff and pupils feel fully supported and involved in school life.
- Strong pupil participation. There is a wide range of mechanisms for children to feed into the decision making and leadership in different areas of school life. Children feel listened to, that their views matter and they can make a positive difference.