British Values

We are committed to serving our community and recognise the multicultural, multi-faith and multi-ethnic nature of both our city and the United Kingdom. We celebrate the cultural diversity of our city and nation and aim to engender this appreciation across our academy, as we create a community of belonging and inclusion. We are dedicated to preparing our students for their adult life beyond the formal, examined curriculum and our approach to British Values is underlined by these commitments.

We value the diversity of backgrounds of all students, families and the wider school community that we serve. Our approach to British Values links together all aspects of our curriculum, including our Fantastic Futures and character curriculum, our tutor time and assembly provision and our academic curriculum, to ensure that students know, understand and model these values.

We also understand the vital role we have in ensuring that groups or individuals, within the Academy, are not subjected to intimidation or radicalisation, by those wishing to unduly, or illegally, influence them, as we develop our students’ understanding of and resilience to these harms. This understanding is embedded across our academy, through safeguarding, pastoral care and curriculum.

As set out in the equal opportunities guidance, we are dedicated to ensuring that there will be no discrimination against any individual or group, regardless of faith, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, political or financial status within the academy.  This is emboldened in our work on The Prospere Anti-Racism Pledge, our recognised Rainbow Flag Award status and our Holocaust Beacon School Quality Mark status.

The Department for Education defines British Values as follows: 

·         Democracy 

·         The rule of law 

·         Individual liberty 

·         Mutual respect 

·         Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs  

In promoting these values, we place knowledge of them at the heart of what we do, as well as providing students with experiences which reinforce their understanding of them. We embolden our students to be creative, respectful, open-minded and independent individuals who are respectful of themselves and of others in our academy, our local community and the wider world – acting as ‘Community Citizens’.