Statement on the promotion of British Values
What is meant by “British Values”?
At McKee College we believe that the following list exemplifies British Values:
Although this list is not exhaustive, we believe it demonstrates the values we seek to instil and promote in our young people here at the McKee College
McKee College is open and welcoming to all, it has a unique atmosphere which allows young people to express themselves without fear or prejudice. We embrace difference and celebrate it, helping to build tolerance and understanding within our students towards others.
Through our curriculum and our key-working with students we will promote the British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs. We will teach and encourage students to respect one another and to respect and tolerate difference, especially those of a different faith or no faith.
We have a duty to keep our students safe and prepare them for life in modern multicultural Britain and globally.
Certain subjects lend themselves to the teaching of British Values especially well and McKee students are taught about British Values in the following subjects:
| Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs | History
Holocaust – KS3 Year 2 British Empire – KS3 Year 2 Slave Trade – KS3 Year 2 Mughal Empire – KS3 Year 2 Difference and changing of religion during England – KS3 Year 1 Germany – Year 10 Elizabethan England – Year 11 Geography Immigration – KS3 Year 1 Cultures and Tribes – KS3 Year 2 Changing Urban Environments – Year 10 Development – Year 11 RS Prejudice and Discrimination: Martin Luther King Jr – KS3 Atheism, Agnosticism and Theism – KS3 Buddhism: Beliefs and Practices – KS3 Judaism and the Holocaust – KS3 Islam in Modern Britain – KS3 Christian Beliefs – KS4 Jewish Beliefs – KS4 English ‘Romeo & Juliet’ – KS3 Year 2 Shared Text KS3 Year 1 & 2 ‘A Christmas Carol’ – Year 10 and 11 Poetry – KS3 Year 1, Year 10 and 11 Component 1 Reading (South African fiction) – Years 10 and 11 Component 2 Writing (Topical transactional writing) – Years 10 and 11 |
| Democracy | History
Magna Carta – KS3 Year 1 English Civil War – Struggle for power between the Crown and Parliament – KS3 Year 2 Different ways to run a country Democracy v Dictatorship – KS3 Year 2 Hitler becomes Dictator – KS3/KS4 Geography Immigration- KS3 Year 1 Crime – KS3 Year 2 Resources, Rivers and Flooding – KS3 Year 2 RS Religion, Peace and Conflict – KS4 Religion, Crime and Punishment – KS4 Civil Rights in the USA – KS3 English ‘An Inspector Calls’ – Year 10 and 11 ‘Macbeth’ – Year 10 and 11 Conflict Poetry – Years 10 and 11. War Literature – KS3 Year 2 Component 2 Reading (Crime & Punishment) – Years 10 and 11 Component 2 Writing (Topical transactional writing) – Years 10 and 11 |
| Rule of Law | History
Elizabethan England and impact of Poor Law – Year 11 Cold War – KS3 Year 2 Women’s rights – KS3 Year 2 Challenges to power in Middle ages – Thomas Beckett – KS3 Year 1 RS Religion, Peace and Conflict – KS4 Religion, Crime and Punishment – KS4 Geography Crime – KS3 Year 2 English ‘Oliver Twist’ – KS3 Year 2 War Literature – KS3 Year 2 ‘A Christmas Carol’ – Years 10 and 11 ‘Macbeth’ – Years 10 and 11. Poetry – Years 10 and 11 Component 2 Reading (Crime & Punishment) – Years 10 and 11 Component 2 Writing (Topical transactional writing) – Years 10 and 11 |
| Individual Liberty | History
Life in Nazi Germany for different groups of people – KS3 Year 2 Slave Trade – KS3 Year 2 Opposition to Nazis – Year 10 Control of terror: SS and Gestapo – Year 10 Geography Life in Shanty Towns, Slums and Poverty – Year 11 Poverty and Blood Diamonds – KS3 Year 2 RS Religion and Life (abortion, euthanasia etc.) – KS4 Religion, Relationships and Families (homosexuality, marriage etc.) – KS4 Civil Rights Movement – KS3 English ‘Romeo & Juliet’ – KS3 Year 2 ‘Oliver Twist’ – KS3 Year 2 Component 1 Reading (South African fiction) – Years 10 and 11 Component 2 Reading (19th Century life) – Years 10 and 11 Component 2 Reading (Crime & Punishment) – Years 10 and 11 Component 2 Writing (Topical transactional writing) – Years 10 and 11 ‘Macbeth’ – Years 10 and 11 ‘A Christmas Carol’ – Years 10 and 11 |
