Individual Liberty

Every student in years 7-11 learns about individual liberty through our personal development ‘Everyone Matters’ curriculum. Topics actively teach our students how to understand their individual liberties and make appropriate choices within them. Examples of explicit teaching around this value include lessons where students learn how to exercise their individual liberties appropriately and in ways which support mutual respect, equality and inclusion for all.

The academy has an inclusive ethos and bullying in any form is condemned, with regular opportunities taken to reinforce this message and remind students how to stay safe, including online. Our student ‘Change Champion’ team take an active role in ensuring student input into school policies at the levels of individual rights and responsibilities.

Our Student Leadership Team and Eco-Council are also empowered to use individual liberties to make decisions to improve the academy community and their work on recycling within the building is an example of where they have exercised these rights successfully. Our assemblies, and other large-scale events such as ‘Chelsea’s Choice’, ‘Crashing’, ‘Head-on’ and ‘Safe Drive, Stay Alive’, focus students on making the right moral choices.