SMSC and British Values.
Our unique approach.
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All form groups complete a fortnightly
Newsround activity looking at a topic news
item. This news item is developed by the
Student Leadership Team and links with
the British Values and our school Values.
Year leaders deliver a programme of
assemblies linked to British Values.
Assemblies also include motivational
and inspiration videos and stories.
At our school we promote respect and
resilience to provide inspirational
experiences. This offers the opportunity to
RISE and make excellence a reality. Our
mission statement was produced by a
working part of SLT, governors and the
student leadership team.
Our new logo and mission statement linking
our 4 core values as a school: Respect,
Inspiration, Resilience and Excellence. Links
to our whole school reward system and
pupils have chosen their own values.
As a school we offer a huge variety and range
of educational visits to support the needs of our
pupils. Recent Educational Visits include a visit
to the Laing gallery in Newcastle linking
Art/literacy and an RE visit to a Jewish Museum
and Westminster Abbey in London to compare
beliefs in modern Britain.
Our school has developed 3 core statements
that encompass the values and attributes of all
staff and pupils at Bishop Barrington. Be The
Difference, Create History, Inspire the Future.
These will be high profile across the school and
referred to in assemblies, form time and
lessons.
Our innovative on-line rewards system
rewarding pupils for demonstrating our new
core values in school and beyond. Parents
have access to pupil’s Vivo accounts and can
see why the pupils have been rewarded.
Links excellently with our marking policy and
attendance drives.
As a community school we work extremely
closely with local charities and community
groups. Our student council votes each term
for a new "school charity". All fundraising
that term will go to this deserving cause.
Our students play a large role in supporting
the local community. Our students have
helped with our annual Age UK dinner and
also students volunteer and support local
sports clubs and voluntary organisations.
Some of our education visits are aimed
directly at our MAT pupils. For
example, a History MAT visit to Durham
Cathedral for Holocaust Memorial Day
and our talented PE students receiving
a masterclass at Loughborough
University.
Every Christmas we host a lunch for our local
community Age UK members. We now link
directly with Age UK to organise afternoon tea
session for the local community, also linking in
with our pupils and local services including
health.
As part of our partnership with the Youth
Sport Trust, we are supporting the Get
Set for Community Action programme.
This looks at training up young people
to deliver community based projects
around the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Working with the National Association of Able
Children in Education, we are supporting our
MAT pupils with stress management and time
planning workshops. The students are also part
of websites and forums linking MAT pupils
across the country/world e.g IGGY.
As a school, we have been awarded the
Intermediate Level International
School Award. This is recognition for our
outstanding international work, including
the Connecting Classrooms cultural
exchange with our partner school in
Nepal.
Members of staff at the school have
completed the PREVENT on-line
training to keep all of our pupils safe
and promote understanding of the moral
issues around radicalisation. We were
praised by Durham Police on our
handling of a recent PREVENT issue.
The fundamental British values are
promote across the school in subject
specific areas, within our PD curriculum
and within form time and assemblies.
Our TOTW booklet covers all the British
Values and subjects have been tasked
with “digging deeper” into a specific
focus area of their subject to promote
the British Values.
Students have been researching and
campaigning for the rights of those who cannot
fight for themselves. Students have been
campaigning specific case studies of individuals
across the world and have had some success in
reversing injustice.
The Future Business Magnates is a competition
ran by Business Durham. The main aim of the
competition is to encourage students to become
young entrepreneurs. The students learn how to
develop business ideas, promote their product,
market their product and finance their business
through a serious of workshops led by
successful business mentors from within County
Durham. As well as developing business skills
the students develop teambuilding skills,
develop decision making skills(and what impact
those decisions will have on others)they realise
the importance of listening to others and seeking
meaningful advice from a variety of sources.
SMSC and British Values run through Bishop
Barrington like “words though a stick of rock”. It
is commented upon during lesson observations
We offer a wide-ranging selection of extra-
curricular clubs and activities covering a variety
of subject areas. Clubs include numerous sports
clubs, science and history clubs, homework club
and gardening club. This clubs enhance our
SMSC provision by supporting pupils in
developing social cohesion.
Through our PD programme we host career
days for pupils in years 10 and 11. These are a
combination of work experience, work
placement and visits and talks from work place
leaders through STEMnet and other careers
based partners.
Working with Athlete Mentors from Sky Sports
Living for Sport programme, our pupils have the
opportunity to work with Athletes and working on
social and moral issues and developing
leadership and teamwork skills
We are being rewarded by DoE for having the
largest increase in numbers following the award
in our schools history. The number of pupils
completing DoE this year has increased from 16
to over 40.