• Spiritual: Exploring beliefs and experiences, respecting values, discover yourself and the surrounding world and your place within it, using imagination and creativity and being able to reflect as an individual.
• Moral: Recognising right and wrong, understanding choices and consequences, investigating moral and ethical issues and being able to offer a reasoned viewpoint.
• Social: Using social skills appropriately in different contexts and understanding how different groups and communities function, being tolerant of others.
• Cultural: Understand, accept, respect and celebrate diversity, participating in cultural opportunities and understand and appreciate cultural influences.

In our changing world and local communities, it is also important to promote fundamental Modern British Values as part of SMSC and this includes celebrating our strong vision and ethos, encouraging and supporting students to develop effective relationships, providing a broad and balanced curriculum whilst offering activities beyond the classroom.

All of our students are encouraged to regard people of all faiths, races and cultures with respect and tolerance. We also promote the British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance. By actively promoting these values we challenge anyone in our school community whose opinions or behaviours undermine these core beliefs.

How do we promote SMSC development in our students?
Teachers and tutors capitalise on opportunities in the curriculum to promote SMSC, and this is woven into the planning of the curriculum delivery via our Curriculum Provision Mapping. Tutors engage students in planned discussion topics in form time, in PSHE and RSHE activities, and assemblies promote many SMSC topics. Weekly Forensic Reading sessions allow students to engage with thought provoking material linked to SMSC, and activities planned promote discussion and healthy debate.

• Developing not only knowledge but self-esteem and confidence
• Understanding right from wrong
• Working within and with our local community
• Through our vision and ethos students’ understanding that they have three rights and three responsibilities in this school;

1. The right to learn
2. The right to be safe
3. The right to respect

and therefore;

1. 1. The responsibility to let others learn
   2. The responsibility to ensure others are safe
   3. The responsibility to respect others

Encourage respect for democracy, not only through lessons but by holding democratic elections for School Council members

As a result of this work, we expect from our students:

• An understanding of how they as citizens, in our school and in their local community, can bring about influence through a democratic process
• An understanding regarding the rule of law and how it aims to protect individuals and the need for it to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all
• An understanding of the freedom of choice, particularly related to choice regarding faith and beliefs, and how these choices are protected in law
• An acceptance of others who hold differing beliefs, faiths and opinions and that tolerance is required and how discriminatory or prejudicial behaviour is against the values and ethos of this school but also is against the law
• An understanding of the importance of identifying discriminatory behaviours and actions and also understanding that action needs to be taken to combat such behaviours