Solihull school receives Gold Award as a Rights Respecting School

Lyndon School, a Summit Learning Trust school in Solihull, have this week been awarded Unicef UK’s Rights Respecting School Award at Gold: Rights Respecting. 

Gold: Rights Respecting is the third stage of the Rights Respecting Schools Award and is administered by the children’s charity UNICEF.  The UK Committee for Unicef confirmed that sufficient evidence regarding Lyndon’s values and frameworks was provided to award the school with this badge of honour. 

The award is granted by UNICEF to schools that have fully embedded children’s rights throughout the school in its policies, practice and ethos.  In order to achieve the award, schools are assessed by a professional advisor who looks at the whole school’s rights respecting work and the impact that has been made through embedding children’s rights into school life.

Abid Butt, Headteacher at Lyndon said: “We are very proud to have received a Gold Award as a Rights Respecting School, being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School helps us to use the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as the values framework that enables us to raise awareness amongst our learners and help prepare them for life beyond Lyndon School. 

Our aim is to ensure the understanding of the consequences of individual and group actions on the rights of others locally and globally. The articles of the Convention are based on the recognition of every child’s basic needs in order to thrive.   We are proud that our School Charter has been created by the whole school community and defines a set of values which are actively upheld by everyone in our Lyndon Community.”

Vince Green, CEO of Summit Learning Trust said: “Everyone at Summit is delighted that Lyndon School has received this award as we know this means their learners know about their rights to survive, have good health, be protected from harm, develop their talents and skills and participate in the world to which they belong.”