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Teaching British values in schools won’t entirely prevent radicalisation and extremism. However, it can help you to nurture critical thinkers and active citizens who respect others and challenge prejudice and discrimination.
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Strengthened guidance on improving the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils.
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Department for Education has today (27 November 2014) published guidance on promoting British values in schools to ensure young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain.
The guidance aims to help both independent and state-maintained schools understand their responsibilities in this area. All have a duty to ‘actively promote’ the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. These values were first set out by the government in the ‘Prevent’ strategy in 2011.
Until now schools have been required to ‘respect’ these values, but as a result of changes brought in earlier in the year all schools must now have a clear strategy for embedding these values and show how their work with pupils has been effective in doing so. In a letter to the Education Select Committee in March, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools Lord Nash explained the changes were designed to “tighten up the standards on pupil welfare to improve safeguarding, and the standards on spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils to strengthen the barriers to extremism”.
Ofsted and the independent inspectorates now take the work of schools in this area into account during inspections.
1.See the SMSC guidance for maintained schools and for independent schools, academies and free schools.
2.See also the government’s consultation interim response on part 2 of the Independent School Standards, covering the SMSC development of pupils.
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British Values lay a solid foundation to encourage learning of helpful skills, especially in a democracy that thrives on inclusivity and positivity. These values aren’t just lofty ideals but practical principles that can be integrated into the daily ethos of schools.
Sep 7, 2023 · How School Values are Taught. One of the wonderful things about having school values is that they can be taught in many different ways: from school assemblies; special challenges; recognition of achievements, as well as discussions and lessons in the classroom.
Feb 22, 2020 · School values can include resilience, aspiration, determination, tolerance, respect and team spirit. UNICEF’s Rights for Children provides an excellent framework for teaching children about school values.
Aug 2, 2010 · Values Education is used as a term to denote an approach which presumes, rightly or wrongly, that there are certain values which can be taught, or learnt, or experienced, in the context of a child’s education.
Mar 12, 2018 · Schools have a role to play in passing on common morality to the next generation. To do this, they must provide two kinds of moral education. The first is “moral formation” – cultivating in children the intentions, feelings and habits of moral subscription.
