Beighton Nursery and Infant School

Beighton Nursery and Infant School
Beighton Nursery and Infant School

British Values 

At Beighton NI School, we ensure Fundamental British Values are strongly promoted within our SMSC development.

Fundamental British Values help children develop knowledge and understanding around our multi-diverse community, and inspire children to value and celebrate the modern diverse community of Great Britain.  By actively promoting the British Values at Beighton, we challenge any opinions or behaviours in school contrary to these values.

We are dedicated in developing responsible, respectful citizens who are able to play their part and become actively involved in public life when they become adults.

The five Fundamental British Values are;

  • democracy

  • rule of law

  • mutual respect

  • individual liberty

  • tolerance of different faiths and beliefs

These values also underpin our safeguarding responsibilities in relation to the Prevent Duty and the Equality Act by building resilience to radicalisation and ideological views and respecting differences, ensuring that all stakeholders treat each other fairly related to the identified protected characteristics. 

Examples of how we promote British Values across the curriculum

DEMOCRACY

Democracy is embedded at our school.  Pupils are always listened to by adults and are taught to listen carefully and with concern to each other, respecting the right of every individual to have their opinions and voices heard.  Pupils also have the opportunity to air their opinions and ideas through Pupil Voice activities, Beighton Bee School Council and Healthy Minds, Sunshine Circle times, P4C debates.  To demonstrate our British electoral system and democracy in action, we carry out elections to recruitment our School Counsellors and Healthy Mind Champions.

THE RULE OF LAW

The importance of rules and laws, whether they are those that are adhered to in class, the school or the country, are consistently reinforced.  Our school has ‘Bee Rules’, which are deeply embedded across the school community are clearly understood by all.  We help children understand the necessity of these, which is to ensure every class member is able to learn in a safe and ordered environment.  Our Positive Behaviour Policy and Principles contribute to this value and pupils are taught the value and reasons behind rules and laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when rules and laws are broken.

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 our pupils to make choices safely, through the provision of a safe environment and an empowering curriculum.  Our pupils are encouraged to know, understand and practice their rights and personal freedoms and are guided on how to do this safely; examples of this can be clearly seen in our Online Safety and RSHE curriculum.  Another aspect of school that encourages this is within our extensive extra- curricular programme and school initiatives - our pupils are given the freedom to make choices in various daily situations.

MUTUAL RESPECT

Developing a culture of mutual respect is priority at Beighton and underpins so many key values.  The pupils know and understand that it is expected and imperative that respect is shown to everyone, whatever differences we may have and to everything, however big or small.  The value of Mutual Respect at Beighton NI School underpins our work every day both in and out of the classroom.  We believe every interaction, children and adults, is vital to effectively model and embed this attribute effectually. Our Behaviour Policy and Principles set out our high expectations related to this aspect for all stakeholders within the school community.

TOLERANCE OF THOSE WITH DIFFERENT FAITHS AND BELIEFS

Beighton NI School enhances pupils understanding of different faiths and beliefs primarily through our Religious Education curriculum, RSHE, visits to places of worship, welcoming visitors from the community that are not predominately white British, and recognising and celebrating national cultural events.  Through this our pupils gain an enhanced understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society.

We promote and develop tolerance in children by supporting the understanding that people in our community may believe different things to us, but we accept their right to believe in what they want to believe in and we do not impose our beliefs on them.