British Values

Our school is committed to actively promoting British values alongside our Christian values to ensure that our pupils leave school fully prepared for life in modern Britain. Our school is committed to serving its local community and surrounding areas. We recognise the multi-cultural, multi-faith nature of the United Kingdom and understand our academy's crucial role in promoting these values.

The government emphasises that all schools should ensure that they teach pupils about British values of:

• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs

We take every opportunity to promote these values and to ensure our pupils:

• Understand why there is a power separation between the executive and the judiciary and why it exists.
• Understand that the freedom to hold varying faiths and beliefs, including no religious faith, is protected in law, and that it is vital to accept people who have different faiths and beliefs without discriminating against them in any way.
• Value the importance of identifying and combatting extremism.
• Develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence;
• Distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England;
• Accept responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely;
• Acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England;
• Celebrate tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions by enabling pupils to acquire an appreciation of and respect for their own and other cultures;
• Encourage respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes, including respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England
• Have an understanding of how citizens can influence decision-making through the democratic process;
• Appreciate that living under the rule of law protects individual citizens and is essential for their well-being and safety;
• Understand that the freedom to choose and hold other faiths and beliefs is protected in law;

We promote British values both within and beyond the classroom, and these values are at the heart of our ethos. Here are just some ways our school seeks to embed the teaching of British values.