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Values Based Education

Values-based Education creates a positive learning environment by modeling positive values, which enhances academic achievement and develops students' social skills. It liberates teachers and students from stress, freeing up time for teaching and learning. Students gain social skills that help them succeed in school and life. The approach encourages reflection and helps students discover their strengths so they can contribute to society. It results in better academic and teaching environments, and equips students with social skills to relate effectively to others and reach their full potential.

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Values Based Education

Values-based Education creates a positive learning environment by modeling positive values, which enhances academic achievement and develops students' social skills. It liberates teachers and students from stress, freeing up time for teaching and learning. Students gain social skills that help them succeed in school and life. The approach encourages reflection and helps students discover their strengths so they can contribute to society. It results in better academic and teaching environments, and equips students with social skills to relate effectively to others and reach their full potential.

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VALUES-BASED EDUCATION

Values-based Education is an approach to teaching that works with


values. It creates a strong learning environment that enhances
academic attainment, and develops students' social and relationship
skills that last throughout their lives.
The positive learning environment is achieved through the positive
values modelled by staff throughout the school. It quickly liberates
teachers and students from the stress of confrontational
relationships, which frees up substantial teaching and learning time.
It also provides social capacity to students, equipping them with
social and relationship skills, intelligences and attitudes to succeed at
school and throughout their lives.
When we actively engage with values we start to understand their
implications for making choices about our attitudes and responses.
A Values-based approach encourages reflective and aspirational
attributes and attitudes. These can be nurtured to help people
discover the very best of themselves, which enables them to be good
citizens and prepare them for the life of work.
VbE creates a better learning environment, in which students are
able to attain better academic results. It creates a better teaching
environment, in which staff are more fulfilled and significantly less
stressed.
It equips students with social capacities that help them work with,
and relate to, others effectively. It provides them with the self-
esteem and confidence to explore and develop their full potential. It
leaves no student behind, irrespective of their background.

The values we focus on are:

Respect
Responsibility
Tolerance
Thoughtfulness
Friendship
Love
Courage
Appreciation
Honesty
Empathy
Co-operation
Positivity
Unity
Peace
Happiness
Hope
Patience
Care
Humility
Determination
Trust
Freedom

These are at times addressed directly through lessons and assemblies


but also permeate the whole curriculum. Either way, they are the
basis for the social, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and moral
development of the whole child. We encourage children to consider
these values, and thereby to develop the knowledge, skills and
attitudes that enable them to develop as reflective learners and grow
to be stable, educated and civil adults.

Teaching and Learning

The elements of Values Education are:

Ensuring that the school’s institutional values are consistent with the
values that pupils are encouraged to develop.
The active promotion of a whole school policy that has the support of
all the staff and is led and monitored by the headteacher.
A programme of school assemblies that introduce and explore a value
each month. Pupils are encouraged to be actively involved in
exploring their understanding of values.
Direct teaching about values in the classroom. These sessions
provide opportunities for personal reflection, moral discourse and
appropriate activities which promote understanding.

Teaching and Learning about Values takes place in the following


ways:

By teachers explaining the meaning of the value (see Appendix 1).


By pupils reflecting on the value and what it means to them and their
own behaviour.
By pupils using the value to guide their own actions.
By staff modelling the value through their own behaviour.
By ensuring that values are taught implicitly through every aspect of
the curriculum.
Through the work of the School Council.
By involving all staff, governors and parents in the values programme
through newsletters which explain how school and home can work
together to promote positive values.
Children’s Needs

In order for the school’s purpose to be effective and for the values to
be meaningful to the pupils, the staff understand that the basic
needs of children are:

To be loved.
To feel secure and know clearly what is expected of them.
To be valued.
To have a balance of activities – active/passive; quiet/talking;
communicating/reflective; taught skills/exploratory work.
To have help to develop relationships.
To develop self-awareness and a knowledge of the world outside of
themselves.
To have creative experiences, including external exploration and
internal reflection.
To be fully involved in the process of education.

Teacher Behaviour

In order to try to meet the needs of children, staff try always to be


consistent in their own behaviour and in their expectations of the
children. They:

Value all the children.


Display great patience and listen carefully to children.
Focus on and emphasise the positive.
Face reality and help pupils to come to terms with difficult issues as
they arise, such as death.
Only disapprove of poor behaviour, never the child.

Try to make time for one another.


Are mutually supportive.
Speak quietly and avoid shouting.
Are valued by the governors and the community.
Have a good sense of humour.
Communicate with parents to ensure that they appreciate the
school’s values and to ensure that there is a common understanding.

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