The Darwin Values Award provides certificates to students from nursery through year 6 to recognize their development in skills across volunteering, physical activities, learning new skills, environmental stewardship, community involvement, and personal growth. Students progress through different award levels as they move up through the grades. The program teaches Darwin principles like self-helpability, with a different principle highlighted each half term to promote qualities like caring for oneself and others.

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…
Selfhelpability!

8. What does Selfhelpability mean?

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10. What does Selfhelpability mean?

11. What does Selfhelpability mean?

12. Now do you know what
Selfhelpability is?