British Values at Salford City Academy

As part of our work at the academy, we are totally committed to the promotion of British Values. We recognise not only the importance of helping pupils to develop academically but also spiritually, morally, socially, and culturally. By actively promoting British Values we prepare students to become respectful, responsible, and tolerant citizens who make an active and positive contribution to the academy, local, and wider community. We aim to ensure that students have a clear sense of right and wrong so that they are well-equipped to make decisions and live fruitful and prosperous lives.

The British Values are:

• Democracy
• The rule of law
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect
• Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

The information below provides some examples of how we embed and promote British Values across our provision at Salford City Academy. This should not be viewed as an exhaustive list, but rather an overview of some of the key elements of our current programme for promoting British Values.

• Student leadership elections.
• The work of the student leadership teams.
• Citizenship curriculum which incorporates democratic processes.
• History curriculum traces the development of democracy and democratic ideas.
• Providing opportunities for debates to take place within and outside of timetabled lessons.
• Consistently reinforcing the importance of teamwork as part of our values.
• Inviting local MPs and councillors into the academy.
• Inviting guests into the school to speak and lead workshops about democratic ideas and processes.
• Ensuring that students are able to communicate with adults and have their voices heard.

• Exploring the Criminal Justice System within Citizenship lessons.
• Consistently reinforcing and fairly applying the school’s behaviour policy.
• Ensuring that corrective restorative conversations take place around student conduct.
• The behaviour policy is underpinned by reflection and providing students with the opportunity to reflect on their behaviour.
• Inviting guest speakers into the academy to speak about issues relating to the law, criminality, and the criminal justice system. 

• Consistently encouraging students to be independent and resilient in their learning.
• Providing a knowledge-rich education to empower students to be able to make informed choices about their next steps and future destinations.
• Comprehensive careers provision which supports students to make informed decisions.
• Ensuring that students are able to communicate with adults and have their voices heard.
• Providing regular opportunities for students to think for themselves.
• Dealing with instances of bullying in a rapid and effective manner. 
• Emphasising and celebrating the individuality and uniqueness of all students within the academy. 

• Dealing with instances of bullying in a rapid and effective manner. 
• Emphasising and celebrating the individuality and uniqueness of all students within the academy. 
• Systematically reinforcing the importance of respect for others, linked in to our SCA values of Responsibility and Teamwork.
• Remembrance activities.
• Regular celebrations of achievement which ensures that all students demonstrate respect towards their peers.
• Displays around the Academy highlight the diversity of cultural backgrounds.
• Assemblies and events relating to the celebration of the diversity of students, including Cultural Day and World Religion Day.

• Religious Education teaches students about different faiths and beliefs and ensures that all students are respectful and can appreciate people with different beliefs to their own.
• Diversity, tolerance, and equality are promoted across the academy, through assemblies and other school-wide events, such as Cultural Day, the community Iftar and World Religion Day.
• Providing a curriculum which is diverse and enables students to ‘see themselves’.
• Black History Month is promoted alongside a wider diversification of the curriculum, such as teaching about people from Africa in England during the Tudor period. 
• Cultural Day involves students wearing cultural dress and educating their peers about their cultural background.
• Citizenship provides students with information about different political beliefs and perspectives on important issues. It also educates students about their rights and responsibilities. 
• We have a Faith Room which is accessible to all students to ensure that they are able to observes their religious commitments. 
• Observance of Holocaust Memorial Day.
• Religious festivals are considered both in terms of attendance to school on specific days and educating students about them.