British Values
British Values at Ashton Keynes School
At Ashton Keynes C of E Primary School, we develop and promote British Values throughout our general school ethos and within our Shine Curriculum. We aim to ensure that children become valuable and fully rounded members of society who treat others with respect and leave our setting fully prepared for life in Modern Britain. The key values we teach provide children with the fundamental knowledge and skills they need to contribute to society. These include:
- Democracy – An understanding of how citizens can influence decision-making through the democratic process.
- The Rule of Law – An appreciation that living under the rule of law protects individual citizens and is essential for their well-being and safety.
- Mutual Respect – An understanding of the importance of identifying and combatting discrimination.
- Tolerance for those of different faiths and beliefs – An acceptance that other people have different faiths or beliefs to oneself (or having none) should be accepted and tolerated and should not be the cause of prejudicial or discriminatory behaviour.
- Individual liberty – An understanding that the freedom to choose and hold other faiths and beliefs is protected in law.
In our school we show these values in many different ways.
Democracy
We show democracy in our school through:
- Our School Council who help make decisions and carry out questionnaires and surveys.
- By our election of school councillors after we have heard their campaign speeches.
- Our Worship Council who help run Collective Worship and carry out pupil surveys.
- Discussing our Class Charters and our termly class targets.
The rule of law
- In class, and in the Life Education Bus, we look at the importance of laws for our class, school and country.
- We help to write our class rules together.
- We learn about how laws are made and how our country is governed.
- Year 6 annually takes part in the Cirencester Mock Trial competition where they learn about how the magistrates court works and prepare a prosecution or a defence case as part of the competition.
Individual Liberty
- At Ashton Keynes School we are encouraged to make our own decisions.
- We often choose the level of challenge in our work through the AK star challenge
- We learn about our rights and responsibilities through our E-Safety and PSHE lessons.
- We have opportunities to join and set up extra-curricular activities for example Eco Council.
Mutual Respect
- One of our key Christian values which Worship Council chose for the school is respect.
- In Collective Worship and in class we learn about how to care and respect one another.
- Mutual respect for one another is in our school rules.
Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs
- In RE we explore different faiths.
- In Collective Worship and PSHE we have discussed and looked at prejudices and prejudice-based bullying.
- In World Awareness Week we learn about other countries and about different ways of living.
