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 pupils to make choices, through provision of a safe environment and an empowering education.  Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these safely; for example, in computing through our E-Safety policy.

Pupils are given the freedom to make many choices, be this in class, through their choice of learning strategies, in a wide range of extra-curricular activities, through fundraising or sporting opportunities or their choice of musical instrument.

Our pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are taught how to exercise these safely, such as in our PSHE JIGSAW lessons. We use the JIGSAW resource across the whole school which also links to assemblies.

Collective worship is used to both explore and support the school’s values. By teaching the children how to manage and understand emotions they will be motivated and equipped to:

• Be effective and successful learners

• Make and sustain friendships

• Deal with and resolve conflict evenly and fairly

• Solve problems with others by themselves

• Manage strong feelings such as frustration, anger or anxiety

• Be able to promote calm and optimistic states that promote the achievement of goals

• Recover from setbacks and persist in the face of difficulties

• Work and play cooperatively

• Compete fairly and win or lose with dignity and respect for all competitors

• Recognise and stand up for their rights and the rights of others

• Understand the value the differences and commonalities between people, respecting the rights of others to have beliefs and values different to their own.

• To respect and value our world, and the things, both material and alive that exist within it..