Schools celebrate another gold award from Unicef
Children’s charity Unicef has made a special visit to St Martin’s Primary school to announce it had been re-accredited for a gold award in its Rights Respecting Schools programme.
Sarah Hodgkinson, a professional adviser for Rights Respecting Schools at Unicef, visited the school, alongside the Forest and Le Rondin to re-accredit their gold status.
‘Rights respecting schools means that children are empowered to know their rights and the rights of others, and they are advocates for other children around the world whose rights might not be respected,’ she said.
‘The gold award means that the children’s rights are embedded in every aspect of the school and that the children, staff and parents and carers know and understand those rights.’
Headteacher Clare Giles said that she was really proud of a whole team effort, including staff, parents and carers, and the children were all involved, including its school street initiative.
‘We’ve all got lots of ideas for how we can maintain our gold award, including our school street law.
'It’s fantastic that we’ve had this re-accreditation, and it’s great for our children that we’ve received it, they’re really proud,’ she said.
Rachel Sykes, health, personal development and partnerships officer at Education, said that she believed being re-accredited was more difficult than achieving the award in the first place.
‘As an island, we’re doing really well across all of our schools for rights respecting, and many are well on their way to gold or re-accreditation,’ she said.
