PROVISION FOR SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL & CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and, within this, the promotion of fundamental British values, are at the heart of the school’s work. Our intention is that our thoughtful and wide-ranging promotion of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development as well as their physical well-being, will enable our pupils to thrive, equipping them to be thoughtful, caring and active citizens in school and in the wider society. They will also be prepared for their positive, independent futures in our multicultural world. SPIRITUAL We want our pupils to have: What we will do to make that happen: A set of values, principles and beliefs which may or may not be Give pupils the opportunity to explore values and beliefs including religious, which inform their perspective on life and their patterns of religious beliefs, and the way in which they impact on peoples’ behaviour lives Awareness and understanding of their own and others’ beliefs Encourage pupils to explore and develop what animates A respect for themselves and for others themselves and others A sense of empathy, concern and compassion Give pupils opportunity to understand human feelings and Ability to show courage in defence of their beliefs emotions, the way they impact on people and how an A readiness to challenge all that would constrain the human spirit understanding of them can be helpful (e.g.: poverty of aspiration, lack of self-confidence and belief, moral Develop a climate or ethos within which all pupils can grow and neutrality or indifference, farce, fanaticism, aggression, greed, flourish, respect others and be respected injustice, narrowness of vision, self-interest, sexism, racism and other Accommodate difference and respecting the integrity of forms of discrimination) individuals Appreciation of the intangible (e.g.: beauty, truth, love, goodness, Promote teaching styles which value pupils’ questions, enable order, as well as for mystery, paradox and ambiguity) pupils to make connections with aspects of their learning and A respect for insight as well as knowledge and reason encourage pupils to relate their learning to a wider frame of An expressive and/or creative impulse reference (e.g. who, what, when, why, how) Ability to think in terms of the ‘whole’ (e.g.: concepts such as Monitor in simple, pragmatic ways, the success of what is harmony, interdependence, scale, perspective, and on understanding provided of feelings and emotions and their likely impact)
PROVISION FOR SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL & CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and, within this, the promotion of fundamental British values, are at the heart of the school’s work. Our intention is that our thoughtful and wide-ranging promotion of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development as well as their physical well-being, will enable our pupils to thrive, equipping them to be thoughtful, caring and active citizens in school and in the wider society. They will also be prepared for their positive, independent futures in our multicultural world. SPIRITUAL We want our pupils to have: A set of values, principles and beliefs which may or may not be religious, which inform their perspective on life and their patterns of behaviour Awareness and understanding of their own and others’ beliefs A respect for themselves and for others A sense of empathy, concern and compassion Ability to show courage in defence of their beliefs A readiness to challenge all that would constrain the human spirit (e.g.: poverty of aspiration, lack of self-confidence and belief, moral neutrality or indifference, farce, fanaticism, aggression, greed, injustice, narrowness of vision, self-interest, sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination) Appreciation of the intangible (e.g.: beauty, truth, love, goodness, order, as well as for mystery, paradox and ambiguity) A respect for insight as well as knowledge and reason An expressive and/or creative impulse Ability to think in terms of the ‘whole’ (e.g.: concepts such as harmony, interdependence, scale, perspective, and on understanding of feelings and emotions and their likely impact) What we will do to make that happen: Give pupils the opportunity to explore values and beliefs including religious beliefs, and the way in which they impact on peoples’ lives Encourage pupils to explore and develop what animates themselves and others Give pupils opportunity to understand human feelings and emotions, the way they impact on people and how an understanding of them can be helpful Develop a climate or ethos within which all pupils can grow and flourish, respect others and be respected Accommodate difference and respecting the integrity of individuals Promote teaching styles which value pupils’ questions, enable pupils to make connections with aspects of their learning and encourage pupils to relate their learning to a wider frame of reference (e.g. who, what, when, why, how) Monitor in simple, pragmatic ways, the success of what is provided
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