The document discusses the Darwin Values Award, which recognizes children from nursery through year 6 who demonstrate certain principles through their volunteering, skills development, care for their community and environment. The award has different levels that the children can progress through as they grow older. It also explains that each half term, the school focuses on one of the Darwin Principles, such as empathability, through assemblies and dedicated activities to help children understand and apply the principles in their daily lives.

1. Darwin Values Awards

2. What are Darwin Principles?
The Darwin citizenship award is about teaching
children to care for themselves and each other,
to learn to care for the school and local
community and respect the global
environment.
It gives children the opportunity to develop
and evolve into citizens of the future.
These are the Darwin principles…

3. What is the Darwin Values Award?
• The award is split into the following
categories;
• Volunteering
• Physical
• New skills
• Residential, Expedition and Environment
• Community and Charity
• Personal Skills and Future Wellbeing

4. What is the Darwin Values Award?
As each child progresses through school they will move on to
different levels of the award, these are:
Earthworm Award - Nursery
Penguin Award - Reception
Iguana Award - KS1
Galapagos Award - Years 3/4
Beagle Award - Year 5
Bronze/Silver/Gold - Year 6
At the end of each level the children will be presented with a
prize and a certificate.

6. Darwin Principles
• Each half term we focus on one of the Darwin
Principles.
• The principle is introduced during assembly
and the children complete more work during
‘Darwin Day.’
• However, we like the children to remember
that principle and apply it throughout their
time at school.

7. This half-term we are looking at…
Empathability and
getting on and falling
out.

8. What does empathability mean?

9. What does empathability mean?
How would
you feel…?

10. What does empathability mean?
Take a walk in
my shoes.

11. What does empathability mean?

12. Now do you know what
empathability is?
Click here to watch
Mark Ruffalo and
Murray talk about
empathy