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Rights Respecting Schools
UNICEF created the Rights Respecting Schools accreditation scheme to acknowledge schools that are committed to putting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the centre of the school ethos.
At Ryders Hayes, we are proud to incorporate the convention into the very fabric of the school to enable us to improve every child’s well-being, encourage their talents and abilities, to realise each child’s potential and to equip each child to become rights-respecting citizens in their own right. Everyone, including staff and pupils, promotes the rights of children but we also instill in the children that rights also come with responsibility. The school has the expectation that each pupil takes their responsibilities as young citizens seriously.
Ryders Hayes has now received the UNICEF Gold Award – the first school in the area- Rights Respecting accreditation to demonstrate our commitment to the rights of children.
Ryders Hayes has adopted the UN charter as a school-wide agreement.
"The Unicef assessor recognised that this Rights Respecting School is a community where ‘children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted."
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"Ryders Hayes Primary School has very much impressed us with the way in which children learn in an environment that encourages and empowers them to make a difference both at home and around the world."
Programme Director, Frances Bestley
School Charters
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Gold Report & Press Release
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Gold Accrediaton Report May 2019
RRSA Gold Press Release Ryders Hayes June 2019
Gold Re-accreditation Report November 2022
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Class Charters
Each class chooses 5 articles from UNCRC to display in their classroom. The children are actively involved in choosing articles that they want to form the basis of their charter.
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The rights are worded (and displayed) in language that is meaningful to the children, but clearly based on particular articles from the Convention.
Each charter also outlines what the children agree to do to ensure the rights are advocated and also what adults (duty bearers) will do to ensure the rights are upheld for every child.
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The charters are then referred to throughout the year as a strategy to ensure that the children continually have their rights met.
