Rights Respecting School Award

At Harris Academy we are moving towards becoming a fully accredited Rights Respecting School.

Working with UNICEF UK, the world's leading organisation working for children's rights. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an important agreement made by governments worldwide to uphold and protect children's rights.

The Rights Respecting School Award involves staff and young people:

• Teaching and learning: ABOUT the rights set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• Teaching and learning: THROUGH rights so that everyone respects the rights of others.
• Teaching and learning: FOR the rights of others so that we stand up for the rights and help make our school, our local and global community a fairer place.

The Rights Respecting Schools Award takes participants through bronze, silver and gold accreditations. Currently at Harris Academy we have been accredited the silver award for our work so far, and we are now working towards gold. The silver award is achieved by embedding the Conventions of the Rights of the Child into policy, practice and culture of schools.

Almost all of our young people have decided that the 9 articles that will become part of our Harris Academy Charter are: