Our Mission Statement:

Everyone will flourish in our school community in mind, body and spirit. We ensure academic excellence enriched through the aspiration and hope exemplified in our Christian values.

To flourish is not only to be happy, but to fulfil one’s potential. Flourishing is the ultimate aim of character education. Human flourishing requires the acquisition and development of virtues. Through character education we aim to teach virtues. We hope to develop confident and compassionate pupils, who are effective contributors to society, successful learners, and responsible citizens.

What Character Education is:

Character is a set of personal traits or dispositions that produce specific moral emotions, inform motivation and guide conduct. Character education includes all explicit and implicit educational activities that help pupils develop positive personal strengths called virtues.

Character education is about helping pupils to decide wisely the kind of person they wish to become and to learn to choose between already existing alternatives or to find new ones. This capacity involves knowing how to choose the right course of action in difficult situations.

(The Jubilee Centre for character & virtues)

What virtues constitute good character?

Individuals can respond well, or less well to the challenges they face in everyday life, and the virtues are those character traits that enable human beings to respond appropriately to situations in any area of experience. These character traits enable people to live, cooperate and learn with others in a way that is peaceful, neighbourly and morally justifiable.

Virtues are empowering and are a key to fulfilling an individual’s potential. There is no definitive list of virtues but we have chosen to prioritise the following to explore in our Monday Collective Worship
Assemblies during the Autumn Term:

Gratitude

Dependability

Endurance

During the Monday Collective Worship Assembly the pupils will learn their meanings and identify appropriate practices in which to apply them in their lives.

As a values-driven school we are committed and determined to develop character through all we do in school. Values and virtues are reinforced everywhere: on the playing fields, in classrooms, corridors, interactions between teachers and pupils, in assemblies, communication, staff training and in relations with parents.

What Character Education is:

Character is a set of personal traits or dispositions that produce specific moral emotions, inform motivation and guide conduct. Character education includes all explicit and implicit educational activities that help pupils develop positive personal strengths called virtues.

Character education is about helping pupils to decide wisely the kind of person they wish to become and to learn to choose between already existing alternatives or to find new ones. This capacity involves knowing how to choose the right course of action in difficult situations.

(The Jubilee Centre for character & virtues)