As a school we have chosen to particularly focus on the following rights:
- Article 14: Adults should help you decide what is right and wrong
- Article 15: You have the right to play with other children
- Article 18: You have the right to a good education
- Article 29: School must develop every child’s personality, talents and ability
- Article 39: You have the right to help if you have been hurt
RRS Silver Award
In 2026, Gainsborough was awarded the Silver: Rights Rights Respecting School Award by UNICEF UK.
UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation working for children and their rights. The Rights Respecting Schools Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children’s 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. The Award recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s planning, policies and practice. A Rights Respecting School is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.
