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ROLES OF RESPONSIBILITY
There are a variety of roles of responsibility in the academy. The children in each year group from Year One onwards can stand for the School Council. They prepare a speech and are voted in by their peers. They then meet regularly with a staff member to develop the academy through pupil voice.
Children also support their peers as Lunchtime Play Leaders.
SPIRITUAL
Our spiritual development enables pupils to look within themselves, at their human relationships and the wider world. Explore beliefs and experience; respect values; discover oneself and the surrounding world; use imagination and creativity; reflect.
We are committed to celebrating Christianity, other religions and non-religious beliefs and values that our pupils bring as part of their family culture / heritage, and we build awareness of and respect others' spiritual and religious beliefs. Within lessons and through assemblies we develop our pupils' curiosity, imagination, creativity and promote, where possible, a sense of awe and wonder.
We promote spirituality through:
- Class and whole school assemblies
- Class and whole school celebration assemblies: home learning, star of week, half-termly honours award assemblies
- Promoting self-esteem through our behaviour approach, SEMH and emotional checks
- Visitors which inspire awe and wonder
- Our RE Curriculum
- Our PSHE Curriculum
- Cooking foods and tasting experiences in different religions and cultures
- Consistent teaching of our school values
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MORAL
Our moral development enables our pupils to know what is right and wrong and to act on it accordingly. We are committed to encouraging our pupils to:
- Be truthful and honest
- Respect the rights and property of others, their opinions and customs, even when they are different from our own
- Help others, demonstrating our core value of 'KINDNESS'
- Solve differences of opinion
Consequently, we have a zero tolerance for all forms of bullying, cruelty, dishonesty, violence and discrimination and have procedures in place for dealing with such instances.
We promote moral development through:
- Our PSHE and E Safety Curriculum
- Our core values:
- Collective community-focused assemblies
- Supporting charities and fundraising: Marie Curie, Children in Need, Local Food Bank, British Legion, Comic Relief, Starlight - Transporting Children's Health through play
- Our School rules and expectations
- Visitors from the community: Local Police officers, Local Reverend, Local Professional Footballers, Youth Dreams Project
- Opportunities for pupils to practise moral decision-making e.g. through social stories, scenarios in SEMH and PSHE lessons, circle time activities and restorative emotion coaching conversations
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SOCIAL
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Our social development enables our pupils to understand the rights and responsibilities of living in a diverse community and being a responsible citizen.
We are committed to:
- Fostering the skills and qualities of team building (Teamwork: one of our learning tools) through the development of self-confidence, cooperation, sensitivity to others, reliability, initiative and understanding.
- Providing an environment where pupils can take responsibility for themselves and others in school and the wider community.
- Acceptance and engagement with the fundamental British Values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
- Enabling pupils to develop and demonstrate skills and attitudes that will allow them to participate fully in and contribute positively to life in modern Britain.
- Pupils are aware of and value those who make up the social community, e.g. visits from parents and governors.
We promote social development through:
- School productions
- Educational visits
- Charity development work
- Extracurricular enrichment clubs and activities
- Ambassadors and Leaders: Eco Warriors, School Council, Play Leaders, Singing Assembly Champions, Reading Buddies, Lunchtime Assistants, Milk and Fruit Monitors
- Reading and Art parent and child cafés
- Parent and Child Book Buzz sessions
- Cooperative learning opportunities: groups and talk partner work
- Practising and Applying our learning toolkit:
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CULTURAL
Our cultural development enables our pupils to acquire knowledge and understanding of others' cultural traditions. We value and celebrate the cultural diversity of our school, community and society.
We are committed to:
- Promoting an appreciation of our own cultural tradition/s and encouraging an appreciation of other people's cultural traditions
- Celebrating the richness of culture and tradition
- Providing opportunities for pupils to participate in and respond positively to artistic, musical, sporting and cultural opportunities
We promote cultural development through:
- Celebrating events: Ramadan, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Easter etc.
- Curriculum-themed weeks designed to inspire, excite and reinforce key themes
- Sharing children's own personal experiences
- Visits and visitors
- Sharing the children's home learning and experiences in our weekly assemblies
- Music and Dance events
- Theatre trips
- Secondary school visits and partnership
- Educational trips
- Showcase of creative arts
- Celebrating national events
- A Love of Reading and the reading materials we promote: 'windows and mirrors'. We want all our children to feel represented in the books we expose them to.
- Supporting charities at international, national and local level
- Celebrating British culture
- Celebrating festivals from around the world
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CHILDREN 'S WELLBEING
We ensure that the wellbeing of children is met in a variety of ways. We have weekly PSHE sessions using the Cambridgeshire scheme for local context. The children have access to class worry boxes and worry monsters so they can share and be supported with any worries they may have.
We are a listening academy and ensure that all children are listened to through our School Council. We regularly survey children to gain their views on the academy. One of the main areas of focus during these surveys is to ensure the children feel safe and know who to speak to if they are worried about anything.
Adult-Student relationships are an integral factor in creating a positive and nurturing learning environment.
Each day we take part in mindfulness breathing exercises, after our play and lunch breaks and at the start of daily assemblies.
We foster a sense of belonging and safety by creating a positive and welcoming environment from the beginning. We start every day positively through the use of our welcome morning greetings:
Members of SLT greet staff each morning and check in with them to start their day positively.
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RSE
RSHE - Our Relationship and Sex Health Education is:
• Age appropriate
• Based on needs of pupil
• Inclusive
• Delivered by staff in a safe environment
• Prepares children adequately for puberty in a timely way
• Prepares children for adult life
As part of the Science Curriculum, we teach the following statutory objectives that build an understanding of growth and reproduction.
The curriculum on Relationships and Sex Education complements, and is supported by, the school’s wider policies on behaviour, bullying and safeguarding (PSHE, E-Safety, Relationships etc).
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