We are proud to say that Castle Hill School continues to be a Rights Respecting School. We renewed the Unicef Gold Award in May 2025 which recoginses our commitment and achievement in developing a rights respecting community within our school and alongside our stakeholders.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights all children are entitled to (these rights are known as Articles). The articles are universal, inherent, inalienable, unconditional, and indivisible. That is to say that they are for all children, from birth, cannot be taken away, do not have to be earnt, and all are equally important. We respect all of these rights.
We support Unicef in their promotion of the Convention of the Rights of the Child and we put these rights into the heart of our practice.
Our School Council helps to steer our practice within school and has also developed our school charter. The pupils chose four Articles that were most important to them in school:
- we have the right to be listened to (Article 12)
- we have the right to the best healthcare and to be kept safe (Article 24)
- we will use our rights and respect the rights of others (Article 29)
- we will take part in creative and cultural activities (Article 31
Castle Hill School is fully engaged with the Rights of the Child, which includes a monthly ‘Right/Article’ focus, which is shared and discussed through whole school and class staff meetings. We also celebrate our Unicef commitment with families and other stakeholders through our newsletters, social media and on our website.