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British Values and Protected Characteristics
British Values and Equality
The Department for Education has published guidance to schools on promoting British values to prepare young people for life in modern Britain. This is at the heart of what we teach at Netheravon All Saints C of E Primary School. We teach and support the fundamental British values of:
- Democracy
- The rule of law
- Individual liberty
- Mutual respect and tolerance
We live these values as part of our everyday life at Netheravon – we have rules to keep us safe and learning. These values are embedded throughout our curriculum, our Worship and daily school life - they are central to our Personal Development offer.
At Netheravon, we choose our Collective Worship Team, House Captains and School Council. We respect each other’s views and beliefs and treat everyone equally and kindly as part of our team.
British Values are also taught explicitly through Personal, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE), and Religious Education (RE). We also teach British Values through planning and delivering a broad and balanced curriculum.
We use the Jigsaw PSHE scheme which also specifically promotes the fundamental British values. Jigsaw contributes, as a good PSHE programme should, to the British Values agenda very significantly, both through the direct teaching of information and through the experiential learning children will enjoy.
The strands of the British Values agenda have been mapped across every Puzzle and every Piece (lesson) which you can see below.
Netheravon British Values Progression
To support curriculum delivery the school also utilises the Picture News resources, which we share in a whole class Worship once a week. These expose the children to current news stories with an inspirational image and thought-provoking questions. This helps the children of Netheravon to gain a deeper understanding of the wider world and current events that are happening, in a manner in which they understand and may otherwise have not been made aware of.
We find that using such engaging and inspiring resources ignites a passion in our children to learn more about key issues for their generation while also promoting British Values.
As well as the British Values, and our Rowde Values, we are committed to Equalities Education. We work to ensure that our children understand that:
- Everyone is included – we show love, acceptance and tolerance to all
- Everyone is different
- We celebrate our differences
- We are all equal in our differences
The Equality Act became law in 2010. It covers everyone in Britain and protects people from discrimination, harassment and victimisation - everyone in Britain is protected. This is because the Equality Act protects people against discrimination because of the protected characteristics that we all have. Under the Equality Act, there are nine Protected Characteristics:
- Age
- Disability
- Gender reassignment
- Race
- Religion or belief
- Marriage or civil partnership
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
- Pregnancy and maternity
At Netheravon, we teach and promote these in our curriculum and embed them into our ethos. Our vision and values, enable us to ensure children understand and show the love, acceptance and tolerance to all that we expect.
You can read about our approach to the Protected Characteristics in the document below and on our Personal Development page.
