Our Gorseland vision and values mean that respect, kindness and consideration towards others is at the heart of everything we do. This links to our decision to begin our Rights Respecting School journey, weaving the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into our culture and ethos. This supports our priority of ensuring every child achieves the best they possible can. 

Our Journey to Bronze

We are pleased to have already achieved our Bronze Award in recognition of being ‘rights committed’ across our school. Our slideshow shares some of the steps taken in our whole school developmental journey.

What is a Rights Respecting School?

A rights-respecting school is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.  

The transformative and rigorous approach of the Rights Respecting Schools Award means that the journey to the highest stage can take several years. The evidence-based standards that we are currently implementing are:

• Rights-respecting values underpin leadership and management.

• The whole school community learns about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

• The school has a rights-respecting ethos.

• Children are empowered to become active citizens and learners.

What are the Children's Rights? 

There are more than 40 articles related to children's rights in the UNCRC which can be seen on the link below. The articles cover all aspects of a child’s life and set out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that every child is entitled to. 

Through gathering pupil voice and voting during our class council meetings as well as quality discussions amongst the adults within our school community, we identified several articles that we felt were the most important and relevant to Gorseland. These are our 'Focus Five':

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