BRITISH VALUES

Democracy

School Council members are elected each year throughout the school with Class 3 candidates presenting manifestos to their peers. Once elected, the council performs tasks such as consulting with the whole school population to find out most popular school meals choices. The school council class representatives ask every child in their classes about their most and least favourite school dinners and puddings. The results are collated and shared with our cook. These are reviewed regularly.

They have also consulted widely and reviewed the School Packed Lunch Policy.

Class 2 and Class 3 have taken part in the Children’s Commissioner Survey (The Big Ask) which endeavours to find out how children feel about what is important for their future and what important to them now. This is a national initiative.

Rule of Law

Each class has established their Class Charter and all members have signed to say they agree to keeping the rules. These are referred to in daily class life if reminders are needed. Class 3 took part in a discussion on the Census as part of their Wellbeing lessons. 

Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs 

Children study questions such as - What does a good role model look like? They explore that we all have different opinions, beliefs and values so our role models will be different too. Being tolerant of our differences means people feel accepted and free to be who they want to be. 

Individual Liberty 

The children answer questions such as -

How would you feel if you were forced to leave your home? We all have the right to live somewhere safe. We can choose to help refugees, who have had to leave their country, homes and lives behind them.

Should disposable face masks be banned? We can choose whether to use reusable or disposable items such as face masks.

It is important to consider a number of factors, including the environment, when we make our choices.

Is it important for all our achievements and good deeds to be recognised? People who win Nobel Prizes have made choices to produce work that benefits humankind. We can make choices that can benefit others too

Class 3 usually take part in an Enterprise Scheme leading up to the Summer Fair. They discuss an enterprise project as part of their Wellbeing work (Me and My future) which teaches them about valuing and dealing with money. The children have had some substantial debates about which charity they should raise money for and had to present a case for each. Then they plan how to cost out their start up costs and how to run their project.  

Mutual Respect

 There is a constant conversation with the children about respecting each other and treating everyone fairly as part of our daily life in school.

Class 2 have been learning about Hinduism, and following on from this, they studied the festivals of Divali, Hannukah and Christmas. The children talked knowledgably about what they had learnt both before and afterwards thus demonstrating a growing tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs as well as mutual respect.

Topics around mutual respect have also been discussed on a weekly basis in Class Collective Worship where we look at topical issues through the weekly and examine a Christian response to them.

Class 3 have been studying “What will make our village a more respectful place?”  and have visited the Bradford Interfaith Education Centre.