UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award

Pre-Senior Baccalaureate – a year on

As the only provider in the region, we were delighted to launch the Pre Senior Baccalaureate (PSB) this year for our Year 7 and Year 8 students.

The PSB brings together a vibrant, engaging and relevant academic curriculum with character education, co-curricular involvement, community activities, and roles of responsibility and leadership. The PSB curriculum encourages our students to develop their ‘soft skills’, readying them for the challenges and opportunities they’ll experience in our Senior School and beyond. Our Year 12 mentors supported our Year 7 and 8 students throughout the year, hosting discussions about leadership, collaboration, independence and communication.

We have been thrilled to see our Year 7 and 8 students, working alongside their older peers, to develop the core skills the PSB programme offers and look forward to offering this opportunity to future students to equip them with useful skills for personal and academic life.

Right (both): Year 7 and Year 8 pupils with their Sixth Form PSB mentors.

UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award

In September we were delighted to welcome a representative from Unicef, who met with a number of our Junior and Senior pupils to learn more about our ongoing work to embed awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) across our curriculum and extra-curricular activities.

Since we achieved our Bronze award in 2020, we have been working together to further develop our knowledge and understanding of the articles within the Convention and reflect on how they affect us within School and our wider community. Our students were able to provide examples of lessons, assemblies and activities they have been taking part in which have covered topics related to the ‘Article of the Week’ and we were also able to explore how the rights in the Convention are covered within our day to day curriculum as well. exercise their rights and to promote the rights of others locally and globally. Our ‘Rights Respecting Champions’ meet regularly, deliver assemblies and promote the UNCRC. A range of other committees allow pupils to take on leadership roles in relation to areas such as teaching and learning, sustainability, charities and school meals.

We’re incredibly proud of what our pupils and staff have achieved and look forward to continuing our journey to becoming a Gold Award Rights Respecting School in the near future.