In accordance with The Department for Education, we aim to actively promote British values in schools to ensure young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. Pupils are encouraged to regard people of all faiths, races and cultures with respect and tolerance and understand that while different people may hold different views about what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, all people living in England are subject to its law.

Democracy

We aim to develop an understanding of the importance of democracy through:

• Involving children in democratic processes such as the School Parliament.
• Ensuring that children have a voice within school, e.g. pupil surveys, taking part in interviewing prospective members of staff, contributing to theme weeks.
• Ensuring that children are listened to in school, e.g. an open-door policy of the Head of School
• Holding debates linked to developing a sense of balanced arguments, listening to both sides of the argument.

Mutual Respect

We aim to encourage our children to show mutual respect through:

• Prioritising the development of our children’s social and emotional awareness is at the heart of our curriculum.

  Democracy

  We aim to develop an understanding of the importance of democracy through:

• Involving children in democratic processes such as the School Parliament.
• Ensuring that children have a voice within school e.g. pupil surveys, taking part in interviewing prospective members of staff, contributing to theme weeks.
• Ensuring that children are listened to in school e.g. open door policy of the Head Teacher or through book recommendations.
• Holding debates linked to developing a sense of balanced arguments, listening to both sides of the argument.

• Mutual Respect

  We aim to encourage our children to show mutual respect through:

• Prioritising the development of our children’s social and emotional awareness at the heart of our curriculum.
• Placing a high emphasis upon instilling good manners within our children.
• Holding assemblies which promote the importance of self-respect, honest and open communication with others and fair play.
• Our positive behaviour policy, which promotes the importance of showing respect towards others.
• Teaching children to work collaboratively and value each other’s opinions.

• Individual Liberty

  We aim to encourage all of our children to be responsible citizens through:

• Actively encouraging our children to make positive choices knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment.
• Empowering children with key roles and responsibilities within school, e.g. house captains, sports captains, play leaders and prefects.
• Teaching our children how they can contribute to the well-being of those in the locality and beyond, through many events such as supporting charities and community events. 
• Encouraging all of our children to take responsibility for their behaviour, as well as knowing their rights. We work hard to ensure that all of our children know and feel that they are dealt with fairly and equitably.

• Rule of Law

  We aim to promote an understanding of the rule of law through:

• Ensuring our school rules are clear and are understood by the children. They are discussed regularly during assemblies, and they are consistently used by all staff.
• Delivering a clear, structured and Positive Learning Behaviour Policy.
• Teaching our children, through reflections, to correct their errors or mistakes. 
• Helping our children to distinguish from right and wrong.
• Teaching our children the value and reason behind rules and laws and the consequences if they are broken, which is reinforced during assemblies and through reflective and restorative conversations.
• Organising visits to the school from authorities such as the Fire Service and Police help reinforce these key messages.

• Tolerance of different Faiths & Beliefs

  We aim to develop tolerance in our children through:

• Reminding children of their place in a culturally diverse society and this is reinforced through our Religion and World Views (RWV) curriculum which explores different faiths.
• RWV lessons teach the children about other faiths as well as their own.
• Providing a rich curriculum which enables our children to learn about other cultures, e.g. Chinese New Year.
• Planned assemblies and class-based learning which promotes the diversity of society and the right for each person to be respected and valued equally.
• Where possible, inviting members of different faith groups into school to share their knowledge and to enhance our children’s learning and understanding of the beliefs of others.
• Enabling children to visit places of worship.
• Our positive learning behaviour policy, which promotes the importance of showing respect towards others.

Equality Objectives

At YFPS, we actively promote equality and equity through our curriculum and ethos. We have a well-designed curriculum which explores strong role models across all groups of people. We work with many international partners through our Erasmus and British council funding. Our staff are well-trained and understand how to promote equality and the impact of this is that we have a fabulous, inclusive school which celebrates diversity, culture and the power of community cohesion.