We are thrilled to announce that Harwood Park has achieved the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award: Rights Aware!

Achieving Silver: Rights Aware means that:

• Harwood Park is explicitly embedding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in our policy, practice and culture
• Harwood Park is promoting knowledge and understanding of the Convention throughout your school community
• Harwood Park is beginning to see the positive impact of these actions our children, staff, and on our school’s ethos, practice and environment
• Harwood Park pupils are beginning to see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and advocates for fairness and children’s rights, both locally and globally

We are very proud to have obtained the Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award which recognises the hard work our pupils and staff have put in to learning about children's rights.  Learning about their rights has allowed our pupils to foster principles of respect, kindness, compassion, empathy and sensitivity.

What is a Rights Respecting School?

A Rights Respecting School puts the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) at the heart of everything they do. This means that we ensure that pupils at Harwood Park know their rights and as adults, we make decisions with the best interests of the child. We teach students about the importance of becoming Global Citizens and ensure that they learn about world events. Moreover, we take time to teach students about developing their full potential and ensure that they learn about people who don’t have access to their rights. We have always been an inclusive and caring school but this award has helped to frame a lot of the great work that already goes on at Harwood Park.

Find out more about the UNCRC: https://www.unicef.org.uk/what-we-do/un-convention-child-rights/

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This video helps explain more about what it is to be a Rights Respecting School:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH8LIQsiM8o 

For further information about Rights Respecting Schools please visit:  www.unicef.org.uk/rrsa or speak to your child's teacher, a member of the senior leadership team or our RRSA coordinator, Miss French.