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British Values

At Belton All Saints we uphold and teach pupils about British Values which are defined as:

  • democracy
  • rule of law
  • individual liberty
  • mutual respect
  • tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

These values are taught explicitly through Personal, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE), and Religious Education (RE). We also teach the British Values through planning and delivering a broad and balanced curriculum.

The school takes opportunities to actively promote British Values through our act of workship, assemblies and whole school systems and structures such as electing and running a successful School Council. We also actively promote British values through ensuring that our curriculum planning and delivery includes real opportunities for exploring these values. Actively promoting British Values also means challenging pupils, staff or parents expressing opinions contrary to fundamental British Values, including ‘extremist’ views.

Local MP visit- Andrew Percy

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Our Local MP- Andrew Perrcy visited us to talk about Government, parliment and the voting system. We asked him lots of questions to find out about Democracy and Rule of Law. We found out how everyone over the age of 18 can vote at an election and how the winning party passes laws and bills. We asked Mr Percy what the role of an MP is and if he would like to be prime minister. We also asked how his party was adrressing the cost of living crisis and climate change.

Faith and Culture Day

 

At our school we welcome all from different faiths and cultures. Our two Federated schools joined together at Belton for a fantastic day learning about the Hindu Faith and also how this compares to Christianity. The children enjoyed learning about Diwali-the festival of light and the story of Rama and Sita. The children explored and played instruments from India and enjoyed dressing up in traditional clothes. There was much knowledge to be taken away with the children asking lots of questions to find out more. Thank you to Krishna who led the day.  This work links extremely well to our curriculum intent of opening our children’s minds to the wider world around them and finding out about how people have different faiths, cultures and customs. Our intention is to schedule a Faith and Culture day every year so the pupils can learn about a different faith/culture every year!

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Learning about the Rule of Law in Britain

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Celebrating the Queens Jubilee and learning about the Royal Family.

Picture NewsPicture NewsWe use Picture news to support our teaching of British Values. You can find an example of a half termly overview here.

Find out more about Picture News here: Teaching Resources for Assemblies | Picture News (picture-news.co.uk)

British values are reinforced regularly and in the following ways:

Democracy:

In order to reflect the democratic values of our society, we encourage children to value the opinions of others. This is accomplished through our School Council. The elections of members of the School Council are based on pupil votes. Children also have the opportunity to vote for House Point rewards at the end of every half term.

The Rule of Law:

The importance of laws and rules, whether they are those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced. Each class has an agreed set of rules alongside the school rules which are prominently displayed. Children are taught that community cohesion and personal responsibility are secured through rules and laws in our society, that they are concerned with our safety and that there are consequences when they are broken. 

Individual Liberty: 

Pupils are actively encouraged to make choices at our school, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we provide boundaries for our children to make choices safely. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our e-Safety teaching and PSHE lessons. Pupils are given the freedom to make choices, e.g. signing up for extra-curricular clubs, choose the level of challenge in some lessons.

Mutual Respect:

Part of our school vision is based around valuing difference and treating people fairly. These values determine how we live as a community. Act of worship and assemblies promote personal qualities and values for life and are central to how we expect everyone to conduct themselves at our school. Children and adults alike, including visitors, are challenged if they are disrespectful in any way.

Tolerance of Those of Different Faiths and Beliefs:

This is developed through enhancing pupils’ understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society and by giving them opportunities to find out more about the world beyond the locality. Assemblies and discussions involving prejudices and prejudice-based bullying are planned for and supported by learning in RE (Local agreed syllabus) and PSHE  (Jigsaw).

The Local Agreed RE syllabus can be found here:

Information about the Jigsaw scheme for PSHE can be found here: 

Our British Values Statement outlines some of the work undertaken by the school and its pupils in addressing these values.

A Briish Values guide for parents can be found here: /northlincs/primary/wroottravis/arenas/websitecontent/web/british-values---a-guide-for-parents.pdf

The Department for Education has published guidance on promoting British values in schools to ensure young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. Click here to find out more Promoting fundamental British values through SMSC - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

PREVENT

Belton All Saints School Prevent Strategy

As part of our commitment to safeguarding and child protection we support the government’s Prevent Strategy, and take guidance from Teaching Appoaches to help to build resilience to extremism. More information is available here: http://www.ltai.info/what-is-prevent/

What is the Prevent Strategy?

The Prevent strategy is a government strategy designed to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorist or extremist causes. 

Many of the things we already do in school to help children become positive, happy members of society also contribute to the Prevent strategy.

These include:

  • Exploring other cultures and religions and promoting diversity
  • Promoting the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils, as well as British values such as democracy
  • Developing critical thinking skills and a strong, positive self-identity
  • Challenging prejudices and racist comments
  • We will also protect children from the risk of radicalisation, for example by using filters on the Internet to make sure they can’t access extremist and terrorist material, or by vetting visitors who come into school to work with pupils.

At our school, we build pupils’ resilience to radicalisation by promoting fundamental British values.

The statutory guidance refers to the importance of Prevent awareness training to equip staff to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and to challenge extremist ideas. At our school all teaching and support staff have completed training.

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