Personal Development
The Badsley Vision
At Badsley, we value all of our children as individuals. Developing the whole child is important to us and that aim is reflected in all we do. We have lots to be proud of, and our children are rightly proud of their achievements. Our Badsley values help our children to be resilient, to communicate, to think, question, explore and work together. We want them to be independent, respect one another and to feel safe and happy in school. We have high expectations of everyone in our school community and we believe that everyone has the ability to achieve great things. We know how important it is that we work in partnership with parents and families, to help our children enjoy their time at Badsley Primary School, be happy, feel secure and achieve the very best they can. We aim for high academic standards as well as valuing and celebrating creativity and imagination through a broad and balanced curriculum.
Intent
We aim to create an ethos where all children can flourish spiritually, personally, academically and socially. High expectations for all are at the centre of what we do and we aim for all children in school to be challenged, curious, respectful and knowledgeable. Our key intent and driver of personal development, which spans across all of our curricular subjects and our whole-school ethos, is to ensure children become valuable and fully rounded members of society who treat others with respect and leave school fully prepared for life in modern Britain. We aim to provide all children with the opportunities both within our curricular subjects and through wider curriculum activities to broaden their horizons, challenge stereotypes and develop their understanding of values and citizenship. Our primary intent is to enhance pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development It is also vital that children leave Badsley with the necessary understanding of protected characteristics, quality and diversity.
At Badsley Primary School, we develop and promote British Values throughout our school and within our curriculum.
A key part of our plan for education is to ensure children become valuable and fully rounded members of society who treat others with respect and leave school fully prepared for life in modern Britain. Our school motto is Growing Together; Aiming High, which proudly encompasses many of our British Values and our key goal is to promote high aspirations for all and ensure that all our pupils leave our school as life-long learners ready to become valuable and rounded members of society.
Democracy
Badsley Primary is currently working with the UNICEF Rights Respecting School programme. Each year the children decide upon their class charter and the rights associated with these. All the children contribute to the drawing up of the charter.
Children have many opportunities for their voices to be heard. We have a school council which meets regularly to discuss issues raised in class council meetings. Council members from each year group are voted in by their class. Children have their voices heard across school, through the use of school councillors, mini-police officers, writing ambassadors in addition to our school subject leaders conducting pupil voice surveys on regular occasions throughout the year. Pupil voice is actively listened to and acted upon and this is vitally important to us as a school and children play a crucial role in terms of shaping our broad and balanced curriculum.
The Rule of Law
The importance of laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced throughout regular school days, as well as when dealing with behaviour and through school assemblies. Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when laws are broken. Visits from authorities such as the Police and Fire Service help reinforce this message. Our school plays an active role in the Mini-Police programme and children are offered the opportunity to work with South Yorkshire Police to support our understanding of the rule of law and explore the value in the Rule of Law. Our PSHE scheme, Jigsaw, plays a key role in exploring safety and the Rule of Law in our society.
Individual Liberty
Within school, pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for young pupils to make choices safely, through provision of a safe environment and empowering education. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our E-Safety and PSHE lessons. Whether it be through choice of learning challenge, of how they record, of participation in our numerous extra-curricular clubs and opportunities, pupils are given the freedom to make choices. Our school is a trauma-informed school, which also supports all staff members to support children in their Individual Liberty, with their self-esteem and their resilience.
Mutual Respect
As a Rights Respecting School, mutual respect is at the heart of our values. Children learn that their behaviours have an effect on their own rights and those of others. All members of the school community treat each other with respect. Respect is also a key one of our Badsley Values and children are taught that we show our respect for each other by treating everyone with kindness and consideration and by valuing our differences. Children are rewarded and celebrated for showing mutual respect both in our school community and within our wider community. Our PSHE scheme plays a key role when promoting mutual respect across school.
Tolerance of those of Different Faiths and Beliefs
Badsley Primary is situated in an area which is greatly culturally diverse, therefore we place a great emphasis on promoting diversity with the children. Assemblies are regularly planned to address this issue either directly or through the inclusion of stories and celebrations from a variety of faiths and cultures. Our RE and PSHE teaching reinforces this through modules such as ‘Celebrating Differences’. Members of different faiths or religions are encouraged to share their knowledge to enhance learning within classes and the school. Children visit places of worship that are important to different faiths. We also follow My Happy Mind in school, which is a positive mental health programme aiming to support children in identifying both their own strengths and the strengths of others, in addition to supporting children with how we can celebrate and appreciate differences.
At Badsley Primary we will actively challenge pupils, staff or parents expressing opinions contrary to fundamental British Values, including ‘extremist’ views and we will support children with discussing any of their fears, concerns and views.