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MHS Charter

Our school is committed to ensuring all students and adults have access to their rights. See Articles 24, 28 and 29 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Students and Staff recognise the following responsibilities in order to ensure this happens:

THE RESPONSIBILITIES
OF STUDENTS ARE TO:
  THE RESPONSIBILITIES
OF STAFF ARE TO:
  • Arrive to lessons on time
  • Arrive to lessons with the proper equipment
  • Work to the best of their ability
  • Ask for help when it is needed
  • Create an environment which allows learning to take place and the teacher to teach
  • Accept the consequences of their actions, without argument
Article 28:
Children have the
right to an education
  • Arrive to lessons on time
  • Arrive to lessons prepared
  • Ensure that sanctions only apply to those
    responsible for negative behaviour
  • Issue rewards generously
  • Ensure that students feel safe, included and valued at all times
  • Build positive relationships with students
  • Not use demeaning language
  • Respect each other regardless of cultural or other differences
  • Have a positive attitude towards school and education
  • Participate in extra curricular activities that are offered
  • Be willing to take risks and to push themselves to achieve, to the best of their ability
Article 29:
Education should develop each child’s personality and talents to the full
  • Plan interesting and challenging lessons so that they cater for different learning styles and are differentiated appropriately
  • Praise and encourage students at every opportunity
  • Give students freedom to explore where their talents may lie
  • Model positive, responsible and respectful behaviour
  • Where possible, provide a range of extra curricular activities across the curriculum
  • Leave all classrooms as they would hope to find them
  • Put all litter in the bins provided
  • Make healthy choices about food and drink
  • Engage in PE lessons and other activities
  • Get enough sleep
Article 24:
Children have the right
to be healthy
  • Keep classrooms and the school clean and tidy
  • Provide healthy food and drink choices
  • Provide a pleasant eating environment
  • Provide clean, respectable toilets


Our Charter has been agreed after consultation with all staff and all students, during the period May - July 2009