Behaviour and Welfare: Moral Values

Our aim is to create a culture that promotes excellent behaviour which ensures that students can learn in a calm, safe and supportive environment and protects them from disruption.

The promotion of positive behaviour

We will ensure all of our students gain the necessary cultural capital that will ensure they are able to have a choice-filled life. As part of this, students develop social and intellectual capital through exposure to key positive behaviours such as our moral values and LORIC skills that enhance their ability to succeed in life.

We believe that all students should be aware of the standards of behaviour expected at our Academy which are underpinned by our values. Positive relationships throughout the Academy are built on a set of shared values:

• Justice our academy rules are fair and reasonable.
• Humility we aim to ensure that everyone in our community has a place and a voice that will be heard.
• Respect treat others how you would wish to be treated yourself.
• Courage the quality of having strength in the face of difficulty.
• Integrity the quality of having strong values
• Compassion the quality of having concern for others.
• Honesty the quality of being truthful.
• Gratitude the quality of being thankful and showing appreciation.

We want all of our students, during their time with us, to ‘Aspire To Be More’ meaning that they leave us gaining the cultural capital that will enable them to have:

• unlimited dreams and ideas that allow children to change the world
• a vision of what they want to achieve in life and how to achieve it
• a strong sense of duty, justice, responsibility, and service
• care and compassion toward each other within the local community and the wider world choice filled lives and the desire and motivation to develop as a good person with humility
• a positive contribution to local communities and wider society and a zest for living life to the full.

We want our students to do this not only because they must, but because they want to, and are mature enough to know how to do the right thing.

Students learn how to respond well to the challenges they face in everyday life and the values are those character traits that enable them to respond appropriately to situations.

The chart below shows the reasons why we believe students behave well.

It’s who I am – we afford our students opportunities to demonstrate our moral values in all aspects of Academy life and beyond

I want to have a great future – we want our students to experience all that BHA’s cultural and intellectual curriculum can offer to allow students to flourish

I want everyone to think positively about me – we want our students to demonstrate BHA’s social capital curriculum

I want praise – we want our students to be rewarded within the BHA’s social capital curriculum

The aim of our Behaviour Policy is to recognise students efforts at every level of this concentric circle which ultimately student behaviour reflecting moral values.

It is crucial that staff understand the importance of using a wide range of preventative and intervention strategies when dealing with behaviour. It is also important to remember that teaching and learning go hand in hand with behaviour, and that it is often the well planned, correctly pitched, and engaging lessons which promote positive behaviour which enables and encourages positive attitudes to learning.