A WARRINGTON school is one of only two in the area to achieve silver status for a Unicef award.

St Bridget’s Primary School in Fearnhead has been commended for its inclusive approach to learning by achieving the high status in the Unicef Rights Respecting Schools award.

Head teacher at the setting Ceri Dobson has praised her ‘hardworking’ staff for enabling the school to achieve the award.

“Special thanks must go to the children, staff and especially Miss Sophie Woodward who led on this project and worked tirelessly to embed the rights of every child through all that we do and as we continue to live out our mission, learn to love and love to learn,” she said.

The head went on to say how this year the school, like a number of others in Warrington, has begun the OPAL Project - a project that promotes outdoor play and learning.

“Our aim is for amazing play times for every child, every day and the children know that this is because that is their right, they have a right to play.”

Moving onto the next stage of the Unicef award, St Bridget’s is working towards achieving its gold status in the Rights Respecting award.

Ms Dobson continued: “There are many areas of St Bridget’s life where we can concentrate on embedding the Convention on the Rights of the Child; this is both implicitly in the general, everyday approach of staff and children, as well as explicitly in our policies and practice.

“We hope in the next year to travel from being ‘Rights Aware’ to the Gold standard of ‘Rights Respecting’, and we are committed to achieving this goal.”