“It was a wet Thursday afternoon, I’m coming to see an all-boys non-selective school as a prospective head, I thought ‘bet this is going to be tough’. I was shown around by one of the assistant heads. I figured he would cherry-pick a good year 7 class to show me. No, no. Year 10 maths last thing on a wet Thursday. And the students were immaculate, absolutely immaculate. So even before I knew about Rights Respecting Schools, it was evident that something was going on here.”
Headteacher Terry Millar joined The Howard School – a non-selective boys’ school in Medway, Kent – in 2016, but the school has been involved with the Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Award since 2012 and has recently achieved Gold, the highest level of the award, for the second time.
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