How do we promote British values at Stanbridge Primary School?
Each term, we revisit our school
values and through assemblies
and Personal, Emotional and
Physical Education we explore
what they mean to us as
individuals and as a school family.
Our values also permeate through
our curriculum.
We also explore a range of British Values in many ways throughout the curriculum and celebrate the
diversity of our school family..
British Value
Democracy
Rule of law
Liberty
How we explore this in school…
School Values
* Whole School - School Councillors are elected by their peers through a democratic
process; Classes ask children to put themselves forward as candidates before conducting
a class ballot.
* Whole school - School Councillors and other pupil groups conduct pupil surveys on
matters such as playground activity zones, before voting on the preferred solutions.
* In-class voting - Certain decisions on matters affecting the whole class are put to a
vote: eg. Class treats, purchase of class activity resources
* In-lesson voting – Teachers often use voting as a system to encourage engagement in
lessons, eg. Debate – for/against arguments, respecting views of others.
* Whole school – House Captains (Yr 6) and Vice Captains (Yr 2) voted in through writing
a speech, making a video and being elected by their peers across the school.
School Values
* PSHE Class/Assembly discussions – Each year the class begins Term 1 by discussing
class and school rules and the reasons for having/observing them. These are sent home
to parents/carers and are in our school planners.
* P4C Class/Assembly discussions – Many P4C discussions cover morality and the need
to have rules or laws which protect the values we cherish. P4C programmes always begin
by setting ground rules as a class, giving the children ownership of and respect for the
rule of law.
* Behaviour management – Whole school behaviour expectations/rules are constantly
discussed, especially when they are breached, both publicly (assemblies and class
assemblies) and with individuals, pairs or small groups. We link behaviour to issues of
morality and social interactions.
RE – Rules for living
Everyday pastoral care/Behaviour management of class/individual pupils
School Values
Whole school - Giving children the freedom and the responsibility to make their own
decisions and to affect the life of the school – Super Play Rangers, Eco-Warriors, School
Council, Setting up their own clubs etc. (Linked to 3 Peaks Behaviour Challenge).
P4C – democracy themes in lessons
Literacy – themes of personal freedom in class stories and study texts (examples? ‘Rags to
Riches’)
Respect
School Values – see values bridge. Visited each term in assembly.
PHSE
P4C – integrated across the curriculum
Literacy – themes of respect in class stories and study texts (e.g. ‘Rags to Riches’)
Whole school Everyday pastoral care/Behaviour management of class/individual pupils.
Adults model respect in their daily interactions with adults and children
Tolerance of
School Values – Uniqueness – celebrating diversity within assemblies. Value is explored
different
each term.
faiths and
Literacy – themes of tolerance in class stories and study texts
beliefs
Whole school Everyday pastoral care/Behaviour management of class/individual pupils.
Awareness of History – Changes in Britain from the stone age to the Iron age, Tudors, WW2 topics
what it means RE – Faith in the local community
to be British
Geography – Units on UK’s physical and human geography
Assembly – global issues linked to UK and related discussions of similarities and
differences between our experiences, values and behaviours in relation to those of other
people living in other countries. Saint days (England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland), Faith
festivals (special importance given to Easter, Christmas and Harvest. British cultural
traditions – eg. Bonfire Night. Remembrance Day.