Children's Rights
The Lindfield is a UNICEF
Rights Respecting School.
The Lindfield School RRSA Steering Committee welcomes you to our website where you can learn about Children's RIghts.
Children's Rights at The Lindfield School
The Lindfield School is a Gold Rights Respecting School. We can be proud of this, but what does it mean and what do we do to deserve this title?
- we support Children’s Rights Article 28: The Right to a Quality Education through our ILP Curriculum
- we hold Assemblies that help us learn about Children’s Rights and Global Goals
- we promote Article 12 – respect for the views of the child - through creating opportunities for pupil voice to be heard in school, locally, nationally and globally
- we take part in charity events such as children in need, comic relief and soccer aid to support and understand the needs of other children
- we learn directly about Children’s Rights and Global Goals in ILPs and many curriculum areas
- we take part in local climate change initiatives
- we stand for our rights at our annual Lindfest event
What is the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA)?
The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) 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.
The UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award embeds these values through the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) into daily school life, and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives, and to be responsible, active citizens.
The RRSA Award is based on principles of:
equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation
and takes a whole-school approach to Children’s Rights education, which can be defined as:
1. Learning about rights for the whole school community through training, curriculum, assemblies, topics, focus days/weeks, displays.
2. Learning through rights by modelling rights respecting language and attitudes and making strategic decisions that involve our students.
3. Learning for rights by developing as rights respecting citizens through participation, empowerment and action.
This is taught within an overall context of education as a right.
All children have rights: the Lindfield School Community are helping to protect them.
Following an assessment by UNICEF in November 2019, The Lindfield School earned the Gold RRSA award. You can read more about RRSA in the quality marks area of our website. We are delighted to have been re-accredited as an RRSA Gold school in February 2022. We are hoping to achieve Gold Re-accreditation in November 2025.
Lindfield students have been promoting Children's Rights and UNICEF's Global Goals for sustainable development through:
Our G7 declaration on Girls' Rights
The Ambassadors decided that our students may have difficulty trying to learn about all the Rights and Global Goals at once, so have chosen the following to focus on for now:
Global Goals (SDGs) for everyone at TLS: 1, 3, 5, 6, 13
CRCs for everyone at TLS: 2, 12, 22, 23, 24, 28
CRCs for extended Learning at TLS: 8, 14, 17, 27, 29, 30, 31, 39
Ambassadors and students are always reminded that all Rights are equally important.
Please click here for further information on our focus SDGs and CRCs
Sustanable Development Goals (SDGs)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRCs)
What Lindfield students say about Children's Rights.
The Southfield Trust Children's Rights Policy
TLS RRSA Gold award report 2022.
Assembly on Children's RightsMany of our assemblies are linked to Children's Rights. Please see the assemblies area of our website for a full list.
