Values Based Education and Character Education
Phoenix Primary School is a proud accredited enhanced VbE and Character Education setting. With VbE at the heart of our curriculum we are developing ethical vocabulary and ethical intelligence, which could be argued is the most important intelligence for the sustainability of our world, enabling Phoenix children to be educated citizens, helping to engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.
At Phoenix we believe the pupils should be encouraged to fundamentally reflect on their own decisions, wellbeing and their future aspirations, we have built a community with a foundation of values. These values are taught and nurtured through assemblies and lessons but also permeate the whole curriculum and atmosphere of the school.
As VbE underpins everything we do, we have carefully designed a relevant curriculum, which prepares the pupils for the world in which they will live and work. Through our curriculum, we aim to provide the pupils with the knowledge, skills, habits and character traits that can be applied across all traditional academic subject areas an in all educational, career and social settings throughout their life.
We provide rich opportunities for the pupils to explore citizenship and real-life issues, which at times they may have to grapple with and make sense of, working together to develop ‘real life’ values such as collaboration and communication, respect, justice, courage, compassion and forgiveness. As these values and skills shape the way that we live together and our response to the issues that we will encounter through our global curriculum.
