We are pleased to announce we have achieved the Gold: Rights Respecting Schools award.

It is granted by UNICEF UK to schools that have fully embedded children’s rights throughout the school in its policies, practice and ethos.

To achieve Gold: Rights Respecting, we were assessed by UNICEF Professional Advisers looked at the whole school’s rights respecting work and the impact that has been made through embedding children’s rights into school life.

Rights Respecting means that there is evidence that the 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; that children, young people and adults in the school have a thorough understanding of child rights, and rights respecting attitudes and language are embedded across the school and students; that the award has had a positive impact on children and young people’s learning and wellbeing and students see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and are advocates for social justice, fairness and children’s rights at home and abroad.

Well done Grendon!