Washwood Heath Nursery School, achieved the Bronze Award in 2018.  and is working towards achieving the Silver Rights Respecting School, awards by Unicef.

Unicef is the world's leading organisation working for children and their rights. The Rights Respecting Schools Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children's rights and encouraging adults, children and young people to respect the rights of others in school.

Unicef works with schools in the UK to create safe and inspiring places to learn, where children are respected, their talents are nurtured and they are able to thrive. Our Rights Respecting Schools Award embeds these values in daily school life and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives and to be responsible, active citizens.

The Award recognises achievement in putting the UN Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC) at the heart of our practice we are committed to this being fundamental to our ethos, curriculum and school culture.

At Washwood Heath we are embedding the rights of children into our ethos, curriculum and school culture and by doing so we will improve the wellbeing of all children in order for them to develop their skills and reach their full potential.  Through our curriculum, we have been working together to learn about children's rights. Children learn about rights every day in lots of ways. We have looked at lots of different rights and discussed how these are important and how they affect all children. We have also developed several Nursery Charters which focus on:

• We have the right to express ourselves and to have our views heard   Article 12 and 13
• We have the right to good clothing to keep safe and warm Article 24
• We have the right to be heard, to express our views, feelings and wishes in all matters that affect us. Article 12
• We have the right to a healthy and nutritious food at lunchtime Article 24
• We have the right to drink clean water Article 24

The Convention has 54 articles that cover all aspects of a child’s life and set out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that all children everywhere are entitled to. It also explains how adults and governments must work together to make sure all children can enjoy all their rights.

Every child has rights, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status.

The Convention must be seen as a whole: all the rights are linked and no right is more important that another. The right to relax and play (Article 31) and the right to freedom of expression (Article 13) have equal importance as the right to be safe from violence (Article 19) and the right to education (Article 28).

Visit  https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/the-rrsa/about-the-rrsa  to find out more about RRSA.

YouTube Video about Rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtKPr1tpsQ0