New Struan School in Alloa is to be awarded the Silver 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.

There are over 1,300 schools across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales that have achieved Silver and over 600 schools that have been awarded Gold, the next step up and highest accolade granted by UNICEF UK.

Headteacher of New Struan School, Deborah Henderson, said:

"We are delighted to have achieved our Rights Respecting Schools Silver award. The team at the school have been working really hard to ensure that we embed the values and articles of the UNCRC in our policies, planning and approaches to learning.

"Our assessor was highly complimentary of the work we have done, and we are looking forward to starting the planning for our journey towards the Gold award when we return from the summer break."