SMSC

What is SMSC?

SMSC stands for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Spiritual

Explore beliefs and experience; respect faiths, feelings and values; enjoy learning about oneself, others and the surrounding world; use imagination and creativity; reflect.

Moral

Recognise right and wrong; respect the law; understand consequences; investigate moral and ethical issues; offer reasoned views.

Social

Investigate and moral issues; appreciate diverse viewpoints; participate, volunteer and cooperate; resolve conflict; engage with the 'British values' of democracy, the rule of law, liberty, respect and tolerance

Cultural

Appreciate cultural influences, appreciate the role of Britain’s parliamentary system, participate in culture opportunities; understand, accept, respect and celebrate diversity.

These core ideas also help us to promote key British Values across the school. We encourage our staff and students to understand and apply key ideas of democracy, rule of law, and individual liberty as well as mutual respect and tolerance in everything that they do.

At Chosen Hill School we believe that our values and actions inside and outside the classroom reflect these key areas. Some signposts to the very many things that we do are shown below:

Assembly Programme – Our Senior Leaders and Year Leads provide a weekly programme of thought provoking assemblies to all year groups. This enables us to plan and map out a broad range of topics for discussion, reflection and action.

Personal Curriculum Development Schedules and Drop Down Days (2020-21) Schedules – The programme includes a broad range of topics delivered across year groups by our own teams and visitor programme and enables coverage of topics in RE, Philosophy and Ethics, Metacognition, well-being and social personal development.

Lesson & Out of Lesson Activities – All staff are very aware of the whole school responsibilities in this respect, and plan activities and displays to encourage, develop and celebrate the key attributes we wish to promote. Please see some of the Headteacher Bulletin and social media feeds.

"I HAVE ENJOYED BEING PART OF G15 WORK WHERE WE MEET WITH REPS FROM OTHER GLOUCESTERSHIRE SCHOOLS. WE CAN FOCUS TOGETHER ON WHAT WE HAVE IN COMMON AND LEARN FROM EACH OTHER – HOSTING AN EVENT AT OUR SCHOOL THIS YEAR WAS A REAL PLEASURE."

TASHA [Y13]

"THIS YEAR I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF SIXTH FORM YEAR COUNCIL AND I ALSO DEPUTISED AS A COUNCIL LEADER DURING THE MOCK EXAMS PERIOD. THIS HAS INSPIRED ME TO APPLY FOR A PERMANENT ROLE NEXT YEAR."

KATIE [Y12]

"THIS YEAR SCHOOL COUNCIL HAD GIVEN US LOTS OF CHANCES TO WORK WITH STAFF AND PROVIDE OUR VIEWS AND RESPONSES TO CHANGES ACROSS SCHOOL. I AM MOST EXCITED ABOUT TRAINING AS A PEER LISTENER, SO THAT I CAN SUPPORT OTHER STUDENTS IN A POSITIVE WAY"

ALEX [Y9]

"RIGHT FROM THE START OF YEAR 7 UI HAD THE CHANCE TO BE INVOLVED IN PROJECTS REPRESENTING MY OWN YEAR GROUP AND WORKING WITH OTHERS. WHEN I JOINED IT DID SEEM A BIG SCHOOL BUT AS YOU GET INVOLVED IN THINGS YOU ACTUALLY SEE WE ARE A BIG COMMUNITY."

EBONIE [Y8]

"BEING IN AN INTERVIEW TEAM TO MEET NEW STAFF WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIND ABOUT THEM AND TO SHARE WITH THEM OUR OWN KEY VALUES/ I HAVE INTERVIEWED OUR CURRENT HEADTECAHER AND ONE OF OUR DEPUTIES!"

ALEX [Y10]