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Behaviour

Promoting Respect and Valuing Diversity: Getting it Right

Move respect and diversity off the values poster and into how your school behaves, as the base for your mental health strategy.

  • 13 minutes
  • 6 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Agree a shared understanding of the school's values across the leadership team
  • Share values with pupils, parents and staff so they shape everyday decisions
  • Check your behaviour system is built on relationships and its sanctions are clear
  • Make sure every pupil knows how to report bullying or a safeguarding worry
  • Connect your values and policies to your whole-school mental health strategy

About this course

Respect and diversity are probably in your school's values already. The harder questions are whether every senior leader means the same thing by them, and whether a pupil would know where to go if a friend was being bullied.

This course helps you check and strengthen the culture your mental health strategy will rest on. Start with the leadership team, using something as simple as a diamond nine activity to agree which values matter most and why. Then look at how those values reach pupils, parents and staff, through the student council, displays and your website. Test your behaviour and pastoral systems against them too: are they built on relationships, are sanctions clear and used consistently, and is there an obvious route for reporting a worry?

You'll come away with questions worth taking to your next leadership meeting.

  • For early career teachers, governors and 4 other roles. Post-16, primary, secondary and special.

6 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    1 min

  2. What are your school’s values? – deciding a common narrative

    3 min

  3. How are relationships important in promoting wellbeing and a sense of belonging?

  4. How are those values shared with your whole school community

    3 min

  5. How are relationships important in promoting wellbeing and a sense of belonging?

    3 min

  6. How does your pastoral system facilitate a safe and respectful environment?

    4 min