Rights Respecting School
We are on our UNICEF Rights Respecting School Journey and are delighted to have attained the
RRS Bronze Award- Rights Committed.
We are now furthering our journey towards achieving the RRS Silver Award.
What is a Rights Respecting School?
A Unicef UK Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. Children and young people and the school community learn about children’s rights by putting them into practice every day. All children have rights. Rights are all the things that children and young people need to make sure that they are healthy, happy and safe.
Being a Rights Respecting School will help our learners to grow into confident, caring and responsible young citizens both in school and within the wider community.
St. Athan Primary School aims to be a school where children’s rights are at the heart of our ethos and culture.
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.
UNCRC stands for United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It’s a list of children's rights that all children and young people, everywhere in the world have, no matter who they are, where they live or what they believe in.
The UNCRC has 54 articles in it, 42 rights are for children and young people up to 18 years of age. The others are all about how governments and adults should work together to make sure children and young people can access their rights.
Children's rights are all the things that children and young people need to make sure that they are safe, have the things they need to survive and develop, and have a say in decisions that affect their lives.