Rights Respecting School

Maesgwyn is a Gold right respecting school.

The Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) at the heart of a school’s planning, policies, practice and ethos. The UNCRC is a list of rights that all children, everywhere in the world, have. The rights on this list are all the things that children and young people need to make sure they are healthy, happy and safe.

A rights-respecting school not only teaches about children's rights, but also models rights and respect in all its relationships: between adults and children, between children themselves, and between adults themselves.

Everyone of our pupils will receive the respect, encouragement and opportunity they need to prepare them for their adult lives. Key to our success is enabling our pupils to develop a strong foundation of well-being with a balance between an academic and vocational ‘hands-on’ curriculum that promotes the life skills that enables our pupils to mature into adult life. We strive to ‘bring out the best’ possible standards in our pupils so that they become effective members of society; the type of adults you would be happy to have as your neighbours.