Promoting Values

Slide 1: Allan’s Primary School Promoting A Culture of Values Sally Kennedy Wednesday 19th September 2007

Slide 2: Current documentation  Curriculum for Excellence  Education Scotland Act 2000  Being Well, Doing Well  Standard for Headship  Chartered Teacher Programme  Journey to Excellence  HGIOS 3  UN Conventions on the Rights of the Child.

Slide 3: Curriculum for Excellence SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS Young RESPONSIBLE people CONFIDENT CITIZENS will INDIVIDUALS become EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS

Slide 4: What are values?  Building blocks  To guide us  Think about what matters  Guide behaviour  Inform decisions and judgements  Good , active citizens We use our values as guiding principles which inform our decision making, how we treat one another, what matters , collective understanding, think beyond self, citizenship , to contribute, looking after legacy

Slide 5: Aim To agree a set of shared values to underpin the life and work of our school community:  As a point of reference for all children and adults  Through wide consultation

Slide 6: Why?  Defines our moral environment ( operation of policies, goals, plans)  Shared reference points ‘ small beacons of certainty in a troubled world ‘.-J Gardner  To specify behaviours and expectations

Slide 7: The Process- how ?????  Staff development session  Pupil voice  Parent focus groups  Community focus group

Slide 8: Our Values RESPECT : To be considerate of ourselves, others and our environment COURAGE: To face challenges with confidence and self- belief INTEGRITY: To be honest in your intentions ENDEAVOUR: To be all you can be LOVE: To feel and act sincerely

Slide 9: Behaviours RESPECT  Taking care of each other’s property / possessions  Listening to each other  Valuing opinions  Responding suitably to other’s actions and feelings  Giving praise  Making time for others  Recognise and celebrate differences  Compromise / meet half way / give and take  Agree a solution

Slide 10: COURAGE  Have a ‘can do’ attitude ( and have a go)  Be heard  Make good choices- don’t follow the ‘crowd’  Be true to yourself  Stand up for yourself  Have the confidence to embrace change  Accept criticism, learn from it and move forward

Slide 11: INTEGRITY  Be trustworthy  Keep a confidence( but know when to tell)  Be open and honest  Know what the right thing FOR YOU is  Do the right thing for yourself and others  Learn from mistakes  Believe you can do it  Understand the ‘why’ of things

Slide 12: LOVE  Be happy and proud of yourself  Be able to share thoughts and feelings  Give and accept praise  Make time for others  See the good in others  Be welcoming  Make a fresh start and move on

Slide 13: ENDEAVOUR  :Self-improvement  Fulfil/ reach your potential- be all you can be  Striving for your own goals  Being happy with your effort  Go the extra mile  Being honest and realistic in expectations  Aim to achieve realistic expectations  Recognise that improvement can be in ANY and ALL areas – excelling at one thing doesn’t signify excellence in all  Build on your strengths  Continually improve- regardless of your start point, irrespective of others  Persevere when things are difficult / challenging  Think about steps needed to achieve goals  Recognise that improving can be difficult and everything doesn’t have to be perfect / correct for improvement to take place

Slide 15: Living the values  What can we do to demonstrate our values? •develop ideas for involving parents in values eg class survey, research project, values book •write to community members , politicians etc seeking views of their important values , collate and shar •Circle time •Poster design •Leaflet design

Slide 16: And………  Scenarios , moral dilemmas  Doodles  Drawing  Agreed suggestions for behaviours which demonstrate each value eg brainstorming , mind mapping , lists etc  Fables, stories, poems  Citizenship and thinking skills resources

Slide 17: Or even…….  Interact materials  Sharing sessions – 10-15minutes per week  Pupil of the week format for value focus  Comments Box (including pre-printed slips for each value)  Envelopes with names – to recognise and celebrate individual contribution  Message board  Main school (or class) display /post it board

Slide 28: Celebrating Success  Book of Achievement  Journey to Excellence wall display  Awards- headteacher, interval, staff  Values wheels  Cars  Inspirational story, poem , music  Golden Book  Scrolling screen in foyer

Slide 33: What people say about a values culture….. We have celebrating success assemblies and a board and values called respect, courage, integrity, endeavour and love. Altogether it’s pride P5

Slide 34: The values have made a We have 5 different values and it difference to the school and helps us be a better school celebrating success assemblies help a lot as well. P5 What I like about the values is P4 that they are transferable to home too! It’s great to see the individual I like the values because we have child achieve and then build to put stickers on the wheels to towards class and school goals. show that we are helpful and kind The Golden Book is lovely

Slide 35: The consultation process ensured that our whole school community really In dealings with children , bought into the values parents and the wider approach we wished to community we can quote promote . our values and agreed behaviours I have been surprised by my son’s I think it’s good to have understanding of the school values. He values everywhere, not just is able to explain what each value school. I try my best to means and , more importantly, what show the values but they look like in terms of his attitudes sometimes it can be hard and actions. I find myself referring to P2 the values at home There is a marked difference in the ethos and sense of pride in our school and values continue to impact positively everyday.