Rights Respecting School

✨🌟We are a Gold Rights Respecting school! ✨🌟

We successfully achieved UNICEF's GOLD award in July 2025 for our rights respecting work across school.

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  • Lancasterian 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.

  • Children, young people and adults in our school have a thorough understanding of child rights, and rights respecting attitudes and language are embedded across the school.

  • RRSA has had a positive impact on children and young people’s learning and wellbeing.

  • Pupils see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and are advocates for social justice, fairness and children’s rights at home and abroad.

The Rights Respecting Schools Award            

  • The UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award improves the lives of children in the UK by taking a whole school approach to putting children’s rights at the heart of school policy and practice

  • Children and young people are empowered to make informed decisions and to grow into confident, active, global, responsible citizens

The RRSA is based on principles of:

  • Equality

  • Dignity

  • Respect    

  • Non-discrimination

  • Participation

Rights are …

  • UNIVERSAL - for all children, everywhere, all of the time

  • INHERENT – people have rights simply by nature of being human. Rights are there at birth.

  • INALIENABLE – they cannot be taken away.

  • UNCONDITIONAL – rights do not have to be earned. They are not a reward and not dependent on a responsibility.

  • INDIVISIBLE – all rights are connected and equally important.

https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/

There are 3 levels to the award 

  • BRONZE - Rights Committed

  • SILVER - Rights Aware

  • GOLD -  Rights Respecting

We believe children's rights should be embedded in our everyday practise. As a result, we thread this approach through all our curriculum pathways as well as discussing, celebrating and promoting pupil rights discretely.

We have also explored our rights and promoted specific articles through special celebration days in school i.e. Harvest Festival, Internet Safety Day, International Women's Day and LGBTQ+ History month. To see what we got up to or find out more about our RRS journey search #RightsRespectingSchool or #UNCRC on our Twitter page: @LancasterianS or take a look at our FaceBook page.

If you want to find out more about Rights Respecting Schools, check out these links:

Lancasterian RRSA SILVER accreditation report 29Mar23.pdf
GOLD accreditation report August 2025.pdf
RRSA-Lancasterian_Evaluation _Gold_evidence pack.pdf
Lancasterian-Evaluation-Gold-July-2025.pdf