Dormers Wells Primary School in Southall receives prestigious UNICEF UK Gold Award
Dormers Wells Primary School in Southall is to be awarded Gold by UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting School programme.
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. Gold is the highest accolade given by UNICEF UK and shows a deep and thorough commitment to children’s rights at all levels of school life. There are over 600 schools across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales that have received Gold.
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.
The UNICEF UK Rights Respecting Schools initiative is aimed at schools across the UK, including those in an early years setting. Currently, it works with nearly 5,000 primary schools, secondary schools, schools for children and young people with special educational needs and pupil referral units across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Schools have reported a positive impact on pupil behaviour, relationships and well-being by enhancing pupils’ self-esteem, leading to less truancy and bullying, better learning and improved academic standards.
An inspirational figure visited our school on Tuesday 9th June. Her name, Leah Chowdhry and she is the first asian lady to swim the English channel. She led an animated presentation to our ks2 children all about her successes and challenges. Amazing!
Watch Year 6’s fantastic human rights assembly. They performed fantastically and gave a heartfelt mention to poet, activist, and inspiration, Benjamin Zephaniah.
In August, Dormers Wells Primary School was televised on ITV news, highlighting the need for foodbanks in our school during the summer. Take a look at the news piece here
Well done to all those children who have come to school by walking, cycling or scooter. we have achieved gold level accreditation
Next is the platinum award so we want you to encourage your children to walk, cycle or scoot to school.
If you come by car, park on the side roads and walk the remaining distance.
Park & stride.
A very big congratulations to Tisha for winning the Windrush award in memory of Sam King. Tisha produced an insightful essay about the generation that travelled on the MV Empire Windrush and arrived at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948.
Every day we feed our community and we couldn’t do that without the support of @TheFelixProject.
The charity distributed the equivalent of 32 million meals in 2023 and we see the real difference that has for people in their day to day lives. [link] We are delighted to be part of the Felix family and their fight against food waste and hunger. We look forward to working with them to support people who need it most.
Dormers Wells Primary School in Southall is one of City Harvest food charity’s free food recipients that has seen an increase in demand for food support. Volunteer, Shireen says that families need all the help that they can get as expenses go up significantly during the holidays.
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