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Grantham Additional Needs Fellowship awarded prestigious Unicef award
Grantham Additional Needs Fellowship have been awarded a prestigious Silver Rights Respecting School Award by Unicef UK.
Unicef is the worldâs leading organisation working for children and their rights. The award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting childrenâs rights and encouraging adults, children and young people to respect the rights of others in school.
Silver is given to schools that make excellent progress towards embedding the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into its ethos and curriculum.
UNICEF silver award. (44328730)
Julia Kay, teacher and Unicef lead for GANF said: âWe are delighted that GANF has met the standard for Unicef UKâs Rights Respecting Schools Award. We had previously been awarded bronze status in recognition of the awareness raised within our curriculum and ethos as being a âRights Respecting Schoolâ.
What a year it has been. A year in which we had to stay indoors, wear a mask when we were out and to keep apart from others – and a year in which we were prevented from hugging our elderly relatives at a time they needed our comfort the most. 2020 saw a massive upheaval to our daily lives as the coronavirus swept the country claiming so many lives and threatening the vulnerable, and forcing the Government to lock us down and restrict our movements. Businesses have struggled or gone to the wall as the shutters came down; we have been prevented from having a pint in a pub with friends, browsing for goods in a shop, watching a play, going to the gym or worshipping in church. We have learnt to meet, to be entertained, virtually, although we know it’s just not the same.
A BRIDPORT school has been recognised for its work supporting children s rights. The Sir John Colfox Academy has been awarded the Gold award from UNICEF in recognition of its ongoing work highlighting children’s rights in the school and wider community. Colfox has been part of the UNICEF ‘Rights Respecting Schools’ programme since 2010, when the school achieved level 1. In 2018, the school was awarded ‘silver’ and the next goal became to achieve the gold award within the following two years. The gold award is the highest level and is granted to schools that organisers believe have fully embedded the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into their ethos and curriculum. The accreditation is then valid for three years.